Tashiro Area is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,188 and 1,717 m. Its mapped area is about 3.6 km across, with 23 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 16 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 447 cm of snowfall a season, 53rd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (563 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (241 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 141 cm. Snowfall days are cold, averaging −7.1 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 12th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 55 km away. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kagura Area | 2.6 km | 542 cm | 69 |
| Mitsumata Area | 5.5 km | 589 cm | 45 |
| Kagura | 6.0 km | 565 cm | 55 |
| Naeba | 8.2 km | 446 cm | 114 |
| Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort | 9.0 km | 618 cm | 36 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 86 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 447 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 241 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 563 cm (2.3 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
82% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift7
- Cable car1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Naeba and Kagura webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 50 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 猿倉猿倉の湯 | 2.9 km | 38.5℃ warm | — | — | — |
| 貝掛貝掛 | 4 km | 37℃ warm | 6.8 neutral | — | — |
| 赤湯青の湯 | 4 km | 50℃ hot | 6.6 neutral | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Naeba苗場山 | Mountain | 4 km |
| Mikuni Pass三国峠 (群馬県・新潟県) | Mountain | 12 km |
| Kiyotsu Gorge清津峡 | Nature | 13.3 km |
| Nozori Dam野反ダム | Landmark | 16.7 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 17.3 km |
| Shima Onsen四万温泉 | Hot spring town | 18.4 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
7 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ｌｉｔｔｌｅ Ｊａｐａｎ Ｅｃｈｉｇｏ | ¥5,400 | — | 3.9 km | ＪＲ上越新幹線 越後湯沢駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
| 貝掛温泉 | ¥21,800 | 4.68 311 reviews | 4.0 km | 越後湯沢駅よりバスにて25分。関越自動車道の湯沢ＩＣよりお車にて15分。 |
| ｐｌａｙ＆ｃｒａｚｙペンション | — | — | 4.3 km | 越後湯沢駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
| なかじま屋 | — | 4.86 58 reviews | 4.0 km | 越後湯沢駅より車で２５分（１７ｋｍ） |
| Ｌｉｔｔｌｅ Ｊａｐａｎ（リトルジャパン） | — | — | 3.9 km | 浅草橋駅（JR中央・総武線、都営浅草線）から徒歩7分 |
| ロッヂモントゼー | — | — | 3.9 km | 越後湯沢より車で約25分、関越自動車道湯沢ＩＣより約20分 |
| キャシーズイン ホテル＆ロッジ | — | — | 4.2 km | 車：関越自動車道湯沢ICで降り国道17号を苗場方面。新幹線：越後湯沢駅下車、路線バスにて苗場方面「二居田代」下車。 |
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More places to look
What we have measured at Tashiro Area
- Which Way Do Japan's Ski Slopes Face, and Does It Matter? We measured which way every mapped run descends at 180 Japanese ski areas. At the middle one, 77% of the vertical faces north or east. That barely predicts snow quality: the weather decides what falls. Where direction matters is after the snow stops, and above all in spring.
- Yuzawa's 21 Ski Areas: Which One for the Best Snow? Four of the world's ten snowiest ski areas sit in one Niigata valley. In that same valley the temperature when it snows ranges from −7.1 °C to −0.3 °C, and the places with the most snow are the warm ones.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52