Snow Resort Nekoyama is a ski area in Hiroshima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 697 and 996 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 7 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 105 cm of snowfall a season, 374th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (145 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (46 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 36 cm. Snowfall days average −2.2 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 374th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogoyama-Kougen Ski Resort | 2.7 km | 105 cm | 2319 |
| Kenmin no Mori Ski Area | 13 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Ibukinosato Ski Area | 24 km | 115 cm | 2167 |
| Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area | 39 km | 129 cm | 1976 |
| Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort | 44 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 47% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 17 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 105 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 46 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 145 cm (3.2 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.
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
80% 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
- Chairlift4
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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Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 14 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ひばごん郷温泉 | 1.8 km | 14℃ cold | — | radioactive (radon) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiba-Dōgo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park比婆道後帝釈国定公園 | Nature | 4.9 km |
| Okuizumo Orochi Loop奥出雲おろちループ | Landmark | 9.1 km |
| Mount Azuma吾妻山 (広島県・島根県) | Mountain | 15.5 km |
| 斐乃上温泉 | Hot spring town | 16.7 km |
| 鯉ヶ窪湿原 | Nature | 19.4 km |
| 雄橋 | Landmark | 19.5 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 ↗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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 比婆山温泉 | ¥8,000 | 3.43 95 reviews | 7.6 km | ＪＲ備後落合駅よりタクシーで１０分 ／中国道・東城ＩＣから３０～４０分／庄原ＩＣから３０分北上 |
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52