板もブーツもおニューはドキドキ。シーズン始めの心得【立山山麓オープン】
By: 広野あさみ【どすこいチャンネル】 · 2025-12-28
Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area is a ski area in Toyama, Japan, on slopes between roughly 467 and 1,112 m. Its mapped area is about 2.6 km across, with 11 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 682 cm of snowfall a season, 15th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (868 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (298 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 224 cm. Snowfall days average −1.3 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 165th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Toyama, about 23 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.
Temperature
14.3℃
Max wind
7.5km/h
Elevation (est.)
467–1112m
Across
2.6km
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
682 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
298 cm
A typical winter: 715 cm. The best: 868 cm.
World rank
20
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
15
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
194
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 780 m, 14 m above the national median.
Quality rank
165
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
23%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
39%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
15 km/h
Dryness 0.24
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.41
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awasuno Ski Area | 1.8 km | 425 cm | 142 |
| Hida Nagareha Resort | 33 km | 258 cm | 673 |
| Jiigatake Snow Resort | 33 km | 449 cm | 110 |
| Kashimayari Snow Resort | 36 km | 449 cm | 110 |
| Tonami Yumenotaira Ski Ground | 36 km | 218 cm | 973 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 50% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 112 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
187cmDec
224cmJan
159cmFeb
112cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 682 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 298 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 868 cm (2.9 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.
298
868
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
11
Run length
11km
Lifts
8
Vertical
671m
Top 1,160 m · base 489 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.9 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.3°
Which way the slopes face
North 81%
East 3%
South 1%
West 14%
84% 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
Easy 3
Intermediate 4
Advanced 4
Lift types
- Chairlift7
- Gondola1
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
Roads nearby国道41号 ↗From the resort: 18.7 kmOperated by: 北陸地方整備局 富山河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道41号 ↗From the resort: 19.2 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局 高山国道事務所
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.
Tateyama 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.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 33 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 真谷温泉 | 2.8 km | 33℃ lukewarm | 9.6 alkaline | sulphur | 1964 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bijodaira Station美女平駅 | Landmark | 3.4 km |
| Tateyama Sabō Erosion Control Works Service Train国土交通省立山砂防工事専用軌道 | Landmark | 8.4 km |
| Shōmyō Falls称名滝 | Nature | 8.8 km |
| Arimine Dam有峰ダム | Nature | 9 km |
| Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route立山黒部アルペンルート | Nature | 9.5 km |
| Mount Tsurugi剱岳 | Mountain | 18.2 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 ↗ Coordinates: 36.5682, 137.4252
Places to stay nearby
13 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 立山観光に最適！ゲストハウスしろいきせき ＾ | ¥5,220 | — | 1.5 km | 立山駅から車で約８分 |
| 立山山麓温泉 ペンション愛花夢＜富山県＞ | ¥5,500 | 4.32 73 reviews | 2.0 km | JR富山駅→富山地方鉄道立山線：立山駅下車／北陸自動車道：富山方面→立山IC→立山山麓方面 |
| 立山山麓温泉 里の湯雷鳥 | ¥5,610 | 4.59 211 reviews | 1.1 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅下車（連絡いただければ、立山駅まで送迎します） |
| 立山山麓温泉 ホワイトベル | ¥6,800 | 4.53 456 reviews | 1.1 km | 北陸自動車道立山ICから車で30分 立山駅まで車で5分 |
| 立山黒部アルペンルート 千寿荘 | ¥7,500 | 4.58 172 reviews | 2.4 km | 富山地方鉄道立山線終点「立山駅」下車。2階南口へ 目の前。 北陸自動車道立山ＩＣ～「国立公園立山」の標識に従い約30分。 |
| グリーンビュー立山 | ¥7,750 | 4.32 260 reviews | 2.4 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅より徒歩にて約３分 |
| 立山館 | ¥8,250 | 4.40 70 reviews | 2.4 km | ＪＲ富山地方鉄道 立山駅１階西口より徒歩にて１分 |
| ホテルテトラリゾート立山国際（旧立山国際ホテル） | ¥9,500 | 4.01 836 reviews | 1.5 km | 電車利用：富山地方鉄道立山駅より無料送迎あり約5分 車利用：立山ICから約30分、富山ICから約45分、雄山神社から3分 |
| 立山連峰の宿 ホテル森の風立山 | ¥15,400 | 4.45 650 reviews | 1.6 km | 立山駅よりお車にて約７分（送迎有り） |
| 立山山麓温泉 クレヨンハウス | — | 5.00 126 reviews | 0.8 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅下車 送迎有り5分／北陸自動車道 立山ＩＣよりお車で30分 |
| 立山山麓温泉 びんてる めいけん | — | — | 1.0 km | 富山地方鉄道立山線立山駅／北陸自動車道「立山ＩＣ」より車で３０分 |
| ロッジ 太郎 | — | — | 1.1 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅／北陸自動車道 立山ＩＣより車で３０分 |
Show the other 1
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 松井山荘 | — | — | 1.6 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅よりバスで１０分 ／ 粟巣野スキー場そば |
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Stay nearby
5 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
5 Hotel
Nearest: 1.4 km
Nearest first
- ホテルテトラリゾート立山国際 Hotel 1.4 km
- 旅館 大岩館 Hotel 10.9 km
- 旅館 だんごや Hotel 10.9 km
- 旅館 いとや Hotel 10.9 km
- 旅館 門前館 Hotel 10.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area
- Which Japanese Prefecture Gets the Most Snow? Niigata's 48 ski areas average 554 cm a season — more than Toyama, more than Hokkaido, and more than the snowiest resort in any Alpine country.
- The Same Mountains That Make Japan's Snow Also Make Its Water Japan's rivers are so steep a Dutch engineer called one a waterfall, and the same geography produces 765 cm of snow a season at Okutadami Maruyama. It ends up in the sake.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52