Tambara Ski Park is a ski area in Gunma, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,187 and 1,587 m. Its mapped area is about 3.3 km across, with 8 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 8.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 423 cm of snowfall a season, 69th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (577 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (183 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 142 cm. Snowfall days are cold, averaging −6.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 10th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Maebashi, about 43 km away. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kawaba Ski Resort | 3.2 km | 423 cm | 144 |
| Hodaigi Ski Resort | 5.4 km | 291 cm | 514 |
| Okutone | 6.4 km | 198 cm | 1164 |
| Oguna Hotaka Ski Area | 7.7 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| Fujiwara Snow&Spa Resort | 7.8 km | 291 cm | 514 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 51% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 73 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 423 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 183 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 577 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
Only 1% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift6
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Minakami webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 11.4 km |
| Tanigawadake Ropeway谷川岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 12.1 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 14.6 km |
| Nagurumi Castle名胡桃城 | Historic site | 14.7 km |
| Numata Castle沼田城 | Historic site | 15.3 km |
| Marble Village Lockheart Castle大理石村ロックハート城 | Historic site | 18.7 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
8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 玉原高原 ペンション もるげんろーて | ¥7,700 | 4.33 64 reviews | 0.7 km | 関越道沼田ＩＣより車で３０分 |
| コーヒーカップミルキー館 | ¥7,920 | 4.71 36 reviews | 0.5 km | 沼田ＩＣより車にて３０分／ＪＲ上越線 沼田駅より車にて４５分 |
| 料理自慢の宿 たんばら高原 ペンションラポール | ¥8,600 | 4.18 93 reviews | 0.7 km | 車ご利用の場合は、関越道沼田Ｉ．Ｃから40分、たんばらスキーパーク横。電車ご利用の場合は、「宿ニュース」をご参照ください |
| 玉原高原 ペンション ホワイトルージュ | ¥9,000 | 3.67 24 reviews | 0.6 km | ＪＲ上越線『沼田駅』より車で４５分／関越自動車道沼田ＩＣより約３０分 |
| ペンション ハートレストクラブ １９５９ | ¥10,500 | 4.94 220 reviews | 0.4 km | 沼田駅から車で３０分、関越道沼田Ｉ．Ｃから３０分。 |
| 森のペンション つつみ・すくえあ | ¥10,500 | 5.00 12 reviews | 0.6 km | 沼田駅よりお車にて約３０分 |
| たんばら高原 料理とワインが自慢の宿 ペンション バン・デ・ルージュ | ¥10,800 | 4.00 129 reviews | 0.8 km | 沼田ICより車で35分、上毛高原駅から車で４０分 |
| Ｉｔ’ｓ Ｔｅａ－ｔｉｍｅ！ | — | 4.96 179 reviews | 0.5 km | 関越沼田インターより３０分。たんばらスキーパークの第一駐車場料金所右折。２つ目右折。右側３軒目の屋根にスパイダマーン |
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More places to look
Guides covering Gunma
- Everywhere on Earth You Climb for Snow. Japan Is the One Place You Drive Toward the Sea. Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.
- How Close to Rain Does the Snow Fall? Japan, the Alps and North America Compared We measured how close to freezing the snow already falls at 240 randomly drawn resorts in the Alps and North America, and at all 397 in Japan. Japan is not one place: Honshu is among the most exposed, Hokkaido among the least.
- Why Is Hokkaido's Snow Colder? Latitude, Elevation and Rain Across 397 Japanese ski areas, elevation sets the temperature and latitude does almost nothing to it — inside Honshu, going north is worth nothing at all. What latitude buys instead is the absence of rain.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52