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Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area

サンメドウズ清里スキー場

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Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area is a ski area in Yamanashi, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,569 and 1,829 m. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across, with 14 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 5.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 113 cm of snowfall a season, 369th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (154 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (55 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 44 cm. Snowfall days average −4.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 285th of 397 in Japan.

Below are links to 3 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

10.4℃

Max wind

6km/h

Elevation (est.)

1569–1829m

Across

1.8km

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

113 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

55 cm

A typical winter: 117 cm. The best: 154 cm.

World rank

2196

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

369

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,703 m, 937 m above the national median.

Quality rank

285

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-4.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

12%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

13 km/h

Dryness 0.46

Frequency 0.16

Freedom from rain 0.70

Calm when snowing 1.00

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
Chateraise Ski Valley Nobeyama	8.5 km	113 cm	2196
Fujimi Kougen Snow Resort	9.6 km	124 cm	2044
Chateraise Ski Valley Koumi	12 km	136 cm	1860
Yachiho Kōgen Ski Resort	14 km	136 cm	1860
Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort	16 km	143 cm	1761

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.

15cm

Dec

29cm

Jan

25cm

Feb

44cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 113 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 55 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 154 cm (2.8 times as much).

154

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

5.6km

Lifts

Vertical

269m

Top 1,880 m · base 1,611 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km

Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 5%

East 85%

South 10%

West 0%

90% 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 4

Easy 1

Intermediate 4

Advanced 2

Other 3

Lift types

Chairlift3
Platter2

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 mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: サンメドウズ清里スキー場 Roads nearby国道20号 ↗From the resort: 15 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局甲府河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道20号 ↗From the resort: 15.7 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局長野国道事務所

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.

Yatsugatake webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →

See the snow in motion

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By: Ty-chi · 2026-06-07

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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
Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group八ヶ岳	Nature	4.3 km
Mount Aka赤岳 (八ヶ岳山系)	Mountain	4.3 km
Nobeyama Plateau野辺山高原	Mountain	4.9 km
Nobeyama radio observatory野辺山宇宙電波観測所	Landmark	5.6 km
Nobeyama Station野辺山駅	Landmark	5.9 km
Hakushu distillery白州蒸溜所	Landmark	16.8 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
八ヶ岳・清里高原　清泉寮　ホテル＆コテージ	¥7,500	4.38 555 reviews	2.9 km	中央自動車道長坂ICより２０分　／　JR小海線清里駅　※無料送迎便(ご予約制)あり
ペンション遊歩道	¥8,800	4.25 52 reviews	3.0 km	中央自動車道　須玉ＩＣ,長坂ＩＣ、小渕沢ＩＣより車で２０分　ＪＲ清里駅より車３分、徒歩２０分
清里高原リゾート（旧：清里高原ホテル）	¥12,190	4.22 1133 reviews	1.9 km	ＪＲ小海線「清里駅」よりお車で約５分／中央道「須玉ＩＣ」「長坂ＩＣ」より約３０分　※送迎バスはWEBにて完全予約制
八ヶ岳南麓　バーク清里	¥15,400	5.00 322 reviews	3.0 km	JR清里駅下車、徒歩２５分。お車は中央道長坂・須玉各インターから約25分
ＢＵＢ　ＲＥＳＯＲＴ　Ｙａｔｓｕｇａｔａｋｅ	¥37,400	4.80 30 reviews	2.9 km	JR小淵沢駅よりお車にて約30分 ※JR小淵沢駅への送迎があります。ご希望の場合は事前にご連絡ください。