Taiheizan Ski Area Opus is a ski area in Akita, Japan, on slopes between roughly 137 and 320 m. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 7 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 5.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 216 cm of snowfall a season, 241st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (302 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (147 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 76 cm. Snowfall days average −0.9 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 336th 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyowa Snow Park | 19 km | 236 cm | 816 |
| Matsumori Ski Area | 23 km | 351 cm | 281 |
| Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 29 km | 280 cm | 574 |
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 31 km | 370 cm | 226 |
| Omagari Family Ski Area | 42 km | 202 cm | 1135 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 37% 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 28 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 216 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 147 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 302 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
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift3
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
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.
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 仁別沢ザブーン温泉プール | 1 km | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tentoku-ji Temple天徳寺 (秋田市) | Temple | 10.9 km |
| Kubota Castle久保田城 | Historic site | 11.6 km |
| Akita Station秋田駅 | Landmark | 11.7 km |
| Akita Museum of Art秋田県立美術館 平野政吉コレクション | Museum | 12.2 km |
| Akita Kantō竿燈 | Old streets | 12.6 km |
| Akita Castle秋田城 | Historic site | 13.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 貝の沢温泉 | ¥7,300 | 4.50 13 reviews | 7.9 km | 秋田駅東口より車で約2０分・西口より約30分 |
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Stay nearby
21 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 9.3 km
Nearest first
- 旅館鯉くらぶ Guest house 10.6 km
- 旅館 白鳥荘 Hotel 11.6 km
- Toyoko Inn Hotel 11.7 km
- Ebisuya Ryokan Hotel 11.7 km
- Hotel Metropolitan Akita Hotel 11.7 km
- ANA CROWNE PLAZA AKITA Hotel 11.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Akita
- Ski and Soak in Japan: Which Ski Areas Have a Hot Spring Source Next Door, and How Hot the Water Is We matched 7,203 analysed hot spring sources to Japan's ski areas. 255 of 397 have one within 5 km, 145 of them at 42 °C or hotter, and 54 have one within 1 km. These are the ski areas that pair top snow with hot water close by, and the ones where the water is strongly acidic.
- Will There Be Snow at Japan's Winter Festivals? Three Winters, Measured Japan's winter festivals are photographed in deep snow. We measured what was actually on the ground during each one across three winters — and checked the 580-year record of a frozen lake that has now failed eight years running.
- Japan's Snow Huts Are Water Shrines. The Snowiest Towns Do Not Have Them. The kamakura is not a shelter from snow. It is a well-side shrine to a water god, roughly 450 years old, and Yokote built its huts on 6 cm of snow in 2024. We measured the snow at five towns that hold one.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52