🇯🇵 Japan · Nagano

Ryuoo Ski Park

竜王スキーパーク

Ryuoo Ski Park is a ski area in Nagano, Japan, on slopes between roughly 852 and 1,831 m. Its mapped area is about 4.6 km across, with 28 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 405 cm of snowfall a season, 77th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (520 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (214 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 136 cm. Snowfall days average −5.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 27th of 397 in Japan.

The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 31 km away. Below are links to 2 official live cameras.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature

10.8℃

Max wind

7.2km/h

Elevation (est.)

852–1831m

Across

4.6km

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall

405 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

214 cm

A typical winter: 407 cm. The best: 520 cm.

World rank

167

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,375 m, 609 m above the national median.

Quality rank

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-5.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

11%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

25%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

17 km/h

Dryness 0.53

Frequency 0.71

Freedom from rain 0.71

Calm when snowing 0.98

The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.

The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Kitashiga Komaruyama Ski Resort	2.1 km	327 cm	370
Shiga Kogen Okushiga Kogen Ski Area	4.6 km	333 cm	333
Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama Ski Area	5.2 km	333 cm	333
X-JAM Takaifuji	5.2 km	568 cm	53
Shiga Kogen Ichinose Yamanokami Ski Area	5.2 km	333 cm	333

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 49% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 67 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.

111cm

Dec

136cm

Jan

91cm

Feb

67cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 405 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 214 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 520 cm (2.4 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

214

520

14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs

Run length

12km

Lifts

Vertical

1,054m

Top 1,922 m · base 867 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.7 km

Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 24%

East 2%

South 8%

West 67%

Only 26% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 8

Intermediate 7

Advanced 7

Other 6

Lift types

Chairlift11
Cable car1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

On the mountainLive camera on the official home page ↗Operated by: 竜王マウンテンリゾート Roads nearby国道18号 ↗From the resort: 18.2 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局長野国道事務所

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Shiga Kogen webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →

Worth seeing nearby

Places within 20 km of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.

Place	Type	Distance
Jigokudani Monkey Park地獄谷野猿公苑	Park	5.2 km
Shiga Highlands志賀高原	Nature	8.8 km
Shibu-tōge渋峠	Nature	13.7 km
Mount Kusatsu-Shirane草津白根山	Nature	15.7 km
Manza Onsen万座温泉	Hot spring town	16.1 km
Nozori Dam野反ダム	Landmark	16.5 km

Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

22 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
ホテル　プランタン	¥5,800	—	2.9 km	上信越道信州中野I.Cより車で約25分　JR飯山駅又は長野電鉄湯田中駅送迎なし
ホテル　シャレー竜王	¥6,510	4.25 16 reviews	3.0 km	信州湯田中駅から北志賀竜王高原スキーパークまでシャトルバス
北志賀高原ホテル	¥7,458	3.75 24 reviews	2.2 km	湯田中駅から竜王マウンテンリゾートまでシャトルバスで約25分。
ホテルタガワ	¥7,500	3.78 20 reviews	1.7 km	湯田中駅よりタクシーにて約15分、飯山駅よりタクシーで30分
ホテル　ノース志賀	¥8,000	4.21 151 reviews	2.3 km	長野電鉄　湯田中駅から車で１５分／信州中野ＩＣより車で３０分
ホテル竜王ヴィレッヂ	¥10,000	—	2.1 km	湯田中駅よりお車にて約25分
ＳＯＲＡ　ＧＬＡＭＰＩＮＧ　ＲＥＳＯＲＴ	¥27,300	—	2.3 km	湯田中駅より車で約25分、信州中野I.Cから車で16km！
竜王マウンテンホテル	—	3.00 18 reviews	1.4 km	長野電鉄湯田中駅からタクシーにて約15分/上信越自動車道・中野ICより中野有料道路経由にて約20分
北志賀　ホリデーイン	—	4.08 21 reviews	1.7 km	上信越道信州中野Ｉ．Ｃから車で20分。北陸新幹線飯山駅または長野電鉄湯田中駅からバスまたはタクシー
北志賀高原　ホテル竜王	—	—	1.7 km	長野電鉄信州中野駅下車　上信越道信州中野インターより国道４０３号約２０分　湯田中渋温泉約１５分　野沢温泉志賀高原約３０分
ホテル　レジェーロ	—	—	2.0 km	湯田中駅より竜王スキーパーク無料シャトルバスにて約１５分。下車後、当ホテル雪上車にてお迎え
竜王プリンスホテル	—	1.00 22 reviews	2.2 km	長野電鉄　信州中野駅から車で２０分

Show the other 10

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
竜王パークホテル	—	4.00 20 reviews	2.2 km	湯田中駅よりお車
Ｔ　Ｈｏｔｅｌ竜王	—	4.00 34 reviews	2.2 km	北陸新幹線　飯山駅よりお車にて約25分
ホテル　アルパイン＜長野県＞	—	3.80 11 reviews	2.2 km	JR長野駅→長野電鉄信州中野／上信越道中野IC→R２９２→R４０３　２５分
ホテルホワイトイン北志賀	—	4.50 65 reviews	2.3 km	長野道、信州中野ICよりお車にて25分。長野駅より長野電鉄湯田中駅下車。湯田中駅よりバス（冬期間のみ）
ヴィラ・チェリオ	—	1.33 6 reviews	2.3 km	長野電鉄　夜間瀬駅から送迎１５分（要連絡）／上信越道　信州中野ＩＣより約２５分
ビレッジ１０１	—	—	2.4 km	車／信州中野ＩＣ 30分　電車／信州中野駅　タクシー20分　ゲレンデ直行バス／各主要駅よりゲレンデ直行バス（冬季のみ）
北志賀グランドホテル＆ウエスト	—	3.00 41 reviews	2.8 km	長野電鉄　信州中野駅より北志賀落合行きバスにて小丸山スキー場下車５分
ペンション　メルローズ	—	—	2.8 km	ＪＲ長野駅下車長野電鉄長野駅から信州中野駅下車・北志賀行きバス苗間バス停下車無料送迎（要連絡）
サンパティック北志賀	—	—	2.8 km	信州中野駅からバスで３０分。信州中野Ｉ．Ｃからハイツまで２０分。
ロッヂ　キングストン	—	—	3.0 km	長野電鉄湯田中線　湯田中駅より送迎有り

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Stay nearby

7 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

7 Hotel

Nearest: 6 km

Nearest first

Rekishi no Yado Kanaguya Hotel 6 km
HIYASHIYA TORAZO Hotel 6.1 km
Koishiya Ryokan Hotel 6.1 km
旅館玉久 Hotel 6.1 km
金喜ホテル Hotel 6.1 km
小澤屋 Hotel 6.1 km

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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