【サンタプレゼントパーク】 3月下旬とは思えないほどのパウダースノー
By: とげサボテンch · 2026-03-27
Santa present park is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 163 and 323 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 9 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 5.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 200 cm of snowfall a season, 265th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2019/20 (143 cm), reached 72% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (67 and 49 cm on average). Snowfall days average −5.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 137th of 397 in Japan.
Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
11.1℃
Max wind
21.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
163–323m
Across
1.0km
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
200 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
143 cm
A typical winter: 196 cm. The best: 255 cm.
World rank
1149
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
265
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
342
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 206 m, 560 m below the national median.
Quality rank
137
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.9°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
7%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
9%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.56
Frequency 0.26
Freedom from rain 0.81
Calm when snowing 0.99
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inosawa Sky Slopes | 2.9 km | 200 cm | 1149 |
| Kamui Ski Links | 10 km | 206 cm | 1092 |
| Canmore Ski Resort | 20 km | 215 cm | 995 |
| Touma Ski Area | 21 km | 232 cm | 853 |
| Pippu Ski Slopes | 25 km | 220 cm | 953 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 38 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
67cmDec
49cmJan
46cmFeb
38cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 200 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 143 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 255 cm (1.8 times as much).
255
143
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
9
Run length
5.4km
Lifts
5
Vertical
159m
Top 322 m · base 164 m
Run map
EasyOther Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch19°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.3°
Which way the slopes face
North 57%
East 43%
South 0%
West 0%
100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Easy 6
Other 3
Lift types
- Chairlift5
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
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.
Asahikawa webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kamikawa Shrine上川神社 | Shrine | 5.3 km |
| Hokuchin Memorial Museum北鎮記念館 | Museum | 6.2 km |
| Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine北海道護國神社 | Shrine | 6.4 km |
| Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture中原悌二郎記念旭川市彫刻美術館 | Museum | 7.4 km |
| Kamuikotan神居古潭 | Nature | 8.3 km |
| Asahiyama Zoo旭川市旭山動物園 | Museum | 14.5 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 ↗ Coordinates: 43.7585, 142.2992
Places to stay nearby
8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ａ－ＧＡＴＥ ＨＯＴＥＬ 旭川 | ¥2,200 | 4.07 627 reviews | 1.5 km | 旭川駅より車で18分 旭川空港より車で40分 |
| 昭和レトロなスパホテル 旭川 高砂温泉 | ¥3,690 | 4.32 228 reviews | 1.6 km | 旭川駅より車で約１０分 旭川鷹栖ICより車で約１５分 |
| グランピングヒル旭川 ｂｙ Ａ－ＧＡＴＥ | ¥4,500 | 3.46 27 reviews | 1.3 km | 旭川駅より車で18分／チェックインは、【A-GATE HOTEL 旭川】フロントまでお越しください。（徒歩１分） |
| 和風旅館扇松園 | ¥5,500 | 4.46 112 reviews | 1.4 km | 道央道旭川鷹栖ＩＣより車で約15分、旭川市内1条通7丁目バス停留所より約25分、旭川空港より車で約30分 |
| 【格安】旭川ゲストハウスロキ｜ドミトリー・一人旅歓迎／民泊 | ¥6,148 | — | 1.4 km | 伊納駅から徒歩で4分 |
| ＫＡＭＵＩ ＳＴＡＹ | ¥7,800 | — | 2.3 km | 旭川駅から車で約10分 |
| Ｇｏｌｄ ｒｉｃｈ ２／民泊 | ¥8,120 | — | 2.3 km | 近文駅から車で9分 |
| Ｓｎｏｗ ｒｅｓｏｒｔ Ｈｅｒｍｉｔａｇｅ／民泊 | — | 5.00 5 reviews | 1.5 km | 伊納駅から徒歩で約５分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
14 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
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- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52