Soyumura 229 Ski Land is a ski area in Aomori, Japan, on slopes between roughly 287 and 529 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 176 cm of snowfall a season, 291st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2019/20 (265 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (127 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 50 cm. Snowfall days average −1.8 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 326th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City) | 28 km | 265 cm | 643 |
| Hanawa Ski Area | 29 km | 263 cm | 657 |
| Okunakayamakogen Ski Area | 32 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area | 40 km | 371 cm | 221 |
| Appi Kogen | 44 km | 377 cm | 211 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 74% 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 37 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 176 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 127 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 265 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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| grave of Jesus in Shingōキリストの墓 (日本) | Historic site | 12.2 km |
| Towadakohan onsen十和田湖畔温泉 | Hot spring town | 16.1 km |
| Towada Shrine十和田神社 | Shrine | 16.6 km |
| Sannohe Castle三戸城 | Historic site | 16.9 km |
| Lake Towada十和田湖 | Nature | 19.5 km |
| Oirase Steam奥入瀬渓流 | Nature | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ロッジカウベル | ¥9,500 | — | 0.5 km | 二戸駅より車で約４０分 |
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Stay nearby
1 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 Aomori
- Deep Snow, 20 km from a Japanese City — and Nobody Writes About It Togakushi gets 553 cm a season and sits 12 km from Nagano. Not one of these twelve ski areas has an English Wikipedia page. Here is what is there.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52