Ski & Board Resort Tsuguro Kogen is a ski area in Okayama, Japan, on slopes between roughly 614 and 756 m. Its mapped area is about 0.6 km across, with 2 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 121 cm of snowfall a season, 357th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (152 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (73 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 42 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 7.9 km away measured 360 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 134 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −1.3 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 373rd 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort | 18 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Kagamiganaru Ski Area | 21 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| OkuDaisen Ski resort | 24 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Daisen White Resort | 28 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Daisen Masumizu Kogen Snow Park | 28 km | 160 cm | 1541 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 40% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 17 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 121 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 73 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 152 cm (2.1 times as much).
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
77% 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
Lift types
- Drag lift1
- Chairlift1
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.
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What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 上長田 weather station — 7.9 km from this ski area, 255 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 360 cm |
| 2023/24 | 176 cm |
| 2024/25 | 457 cm |
| 2025/26 | 447 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 134 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 30.3 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 津黒高原温泉第2号 | 0.5 km | 30.3℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | simple | 1975 |
| 小津黒温泉 | 1.1 km | 24.2℃ cold | 8.8 alkaline | — | 1961 |
| a spring in 真庭市(中和村吉田) | 2.5 km | 27.3℃ lukewarm | — | radioactive (radon) | 1989 |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yubara Onsen湯原温泉 | Hot spring town | 8.5 km |
| Okutsu Onsen奥津温泉 | Hot spring town | 11.8 km |
| Shiogama no reisen塩釜の冷泉 | Nature | 11.8 km |
| Sekigane Onsen関金温泉 | Hot spring town | 12.2 km |
| Hiruzen Plateau蒜山高原 | Mountain | 13.2 km |
| Misasa Onsen三朝温泉 | Hot spring town | 19.2 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蒜山なごみの温泉 津黒高原荘 | ¥6,600 | 3.91 236 reviews | 1.1 km | JR姫新線中国勝山駅から車で40分／米子自動車道湯原ＩＣから車で20分 |
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Stay nearby
11 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 8.3 km
Nearest first
- ゆばらの宿 米屋 Hotel 8.3 km
- 湯原温泉 湯快感 花やしき Hotel 8.5 km
- さつき荘 Hotel 8.6 km
- 湯の蔵 つるや Hotel 8.6 km
- 大江戸温泉物語 輝乃湯 Hotel 9.2 km
- 湯原温泉 森のホテル ロシュフォール Hotel 10.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52