🇯🇵 Japan · Miyagi

Spring Valley Izumi Kogen

スプリングバレー泉高原スキー場

Spring Valley Izumi Kogen is a ski area in Miyagi, Japan, on slopes between roughly 605 and 972 m. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 13 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 6.3 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 146 cm of snowfall a season, 325th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (98 cm), reached 67% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 51 cm. Snowfall days average −3.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 312th of 397 in Japan.

Below are links to 4 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

13.1℃

Max wind

8km/h

Elevation (est.)

605–972m

Across

1.5km

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

146 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

98 cm

A typical winter: 144 cm. The best: 177 cm.

World rank

1714

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

325

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

195

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 775 m, 9 m above the national median.

Quality rank

312

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-3.9°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

20%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

23 km/h

Dryness 0.42

Frequency 0.21

Freedom from rain 0.47

Calm when snowing 0.91

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
Izumigatake Ski Resort	2.7 km	146 cm	1714
Kurobushi Kogen Snow Park Jangle Jungle	15 km	302 cm	472
Yakurai Garden Ski Area	17 km	139 cm	1816
Hanagasa Kogen Ski Area	22 km	321 cm	401
Water Jump Miyagi	28 km	117 cm	2129

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 25 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

37cm

Dec

51cm

Jan

33cm

Feb

25cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 146 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 98 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 177 cm (1.8 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.

177

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

6.3km

Lifts

Vertical

270m

Top 957 m · base 687 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.1 km

Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 12%

East 83%

South 4%

West 0%

95% 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

Novice 3

Easy 7

Intermediate 3

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

On the mountainSlope camera on the official winter page ↗Operated by: スプリングバレー仙台泉 Roads nearby国道48号 ↗From the resort: 12.6 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局仙台河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道48号 ↗From the resort: 13.1 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局山形河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道4号 ↗From the resort: 16.8 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局仙台河川国道事務所

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.

Sendai webcams & snow report — all 2 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.

Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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
Izumigatake泉ヶ岳	Mountain	1 km
Saihō-ji Temple西方寺 (仙台市)	Temple	7.3 km
Sakunami Onsen作並温泉	Hot spring town	13.2 km
Miyagikyo distillery宮城峡蒸溜所	Landmark	13.6 km
Yurtec Stadium Sendai仙台スタジアム	Leisure	18.1 km
Akiu Great Falls秋保大滝	Nature	18.8 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
ＩＺＵＭＩ　ＰＥＡＫ　ＢＡＳＥ（泉ピークベース）	¥8,800	4.56 30 reviews	3.4 km	仙台駅からお車で約４５分、泉中央駅からお車で約３０分、東北自動車道泉ＰＡ（スマートＩＣ）より約２３分
たびの邸宅　Ｒｅｔｒｅａｔ了美　七ツ森	¥10,660	—	4.9 km	仙台駅より車で約５０分、泉中央駅より車で約３５分、東北自動車道富谷ＩＣより車で約２０分
滝ノ原温泉　四季の味宿　割烹ちどり荘	¥15,000	4.64 41 reviews	5.2 km	仙台駅よりお車で約５０分　※電車をご利用のお客様は、泉中央駅よりレンタカー又はタクシーでお越しください。