アラウンド西吾妻(白布温泉×天元台高原） 冬のプロモーション
By: 【公式】天元台高原 · 2026-04-29
Tengendai Kogen is a ski area in Yamagata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,114 and 1,860 m. Its mapped area is about 2.9 km across, with 10 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 7.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 379 cm of snowfall a season, 85th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (518 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (151 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 125 cm. Snowfall days are cold, averaging −7.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 9th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Fukushima, about 29 km away. Below are links to 2 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
7.4℃
Max wind
7.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
1114–1860m
Across
2.9km
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
379 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
151 cm
A typical winter: 392 cm. The best: 518 cm.
World rank
206
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
85
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
32
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,548 m, 782 m above the national median.
Quality rank
9
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-7.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
12%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
27%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.70
Frequency 0.76
Freedom from rain 0.69
Calm when snowing 0.92
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandeco Snow Resort | 6.5 km | 379 cm | 206 |
| Kuriko International Ski & Resort | 13 km | 333 cm | 333 |
| Yonezawa Snow World | 14 km | 253 cm | 704 |
| Onogawa Onsen | 14 km | 314 cm | 430 |
| Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area | 16 km | 296 cm | 496 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 57% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 71 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
106cmDec
125cmJan
77cmFeb
71cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 379 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 151 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 518 cm (3.4 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.
151
518
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
10
Run length
7.3km
Lifts
4
Vertical
887m
Top 1,815 m · base 927 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.5 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11°
Which way the slopes face
North 74%
East 2%
South 8%
West 16%
76% 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 2
Intermediate 4
Advanced 4
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Cable car1
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.
Roads nearby国道13号 ↗From the resort: 12.8 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局 福島河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道13号 ↗From the resort: 12.9 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局 山形河川国道事務所
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.
Yonezawa and Tengendai webcams & snow report — all 4 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
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 59.4 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 新高湯阿部 | 0.7 km | 50.5℃ hot | 7.1 neutral | — | — |
| 大平滝見屋 | 1.8 km | 52℃ hot | 7 neutral | — | — |
| 白布白布源泉 | 2.2 km | 59.4℃ hot | 6.8 neutral | — | — |
| 赤滝赤滝Ⅱ源泉 | 2.6 km | 33.4℃ lukewarm | 5.8 mildly acidic | — | — |
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 Azuma-kofuji吾妻小富士 | Mountain | 10.7 km |
| Lake Hibara桧原湖 | Nature | 12.6 km |
| Yonezawa Castle米沢城 | Historic site | 16.2 km |
| Yonezawa Uesugi clan cemetery上杉家廟所 | Historic site | 17 km |
| Mount Bandai磐梯山 | Mountain | 19.3 km |
| Mount Adatara安達太良山 | Mountain | 19.6 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: 37.7665, 140.1380
Places to stay nearby
11 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 天元台山荘 | ¥7,000 | 4.80 5 reviews | 1.2 km | 米沢駅から湯元駅までバスで約50分。ロープウェイで天元台高原駅までお上がりください。駅から徒歩約7分 |
| 白布温泉 東屋（ひがしや） | ¥7,150 | 4.62 133 reviews | 2.2 km | ＪＲ米沢駅より「白布天元台行」路線バスにて約50分 送迎バス：ＪＲ米沢駅発 14:30 旅館発 10:00 要予約 |
| 白布温泉 中屋別館 不動閣 | ¥8,470 | 4.36 313 reviews | 2.4 km | JR米沢駅から路線バス（山交バス白布温泉行き）約50分。東北中央自動車道～米沢八幡原IC～国道13号～県道2号線約30分 |
| アルブ天元台 | ¥9,000 | 3.90 22 reviews | 1.0 km | 東北中央自動車道米沢八幡原ICよりR13で米沢方面21㎞30分。天元台ロープウェイ乗車6分 |
| 歩いてたどりつく温泉 大平温泉 滝見屋 | ¥14,980 | 5.00 23 reviews | 1.8 km | 米沢駅よりお車にて約50分。駐車場から約20分のトレッキング |
| ペンション パル＜山形県＞ | — | — | 0.5 km | 奥羽本線 米沢駅よりバスで５０分、ロープウェイで５分 但しロープウェイ最終運行時間17:00 |
| 新高湯温泉 五つの絶景露天風呂 吾妻屋旅館 | — | — | 0.7 km | ＪＲ 米沢駅より山形交通バスで４０分、天元台湯元駅下車後送迎車にて4分（白布温泉から送迎車6分） |
| ペンション かもしか | — | — | 1.2 km | JR米沢駅からバスで40分白布・天元台行終点ロープウェイ湯元駅／さらにロープウェイ乗車5分天元台駅から歩いて4分 |
| 白布温泉 湯滝の宿 西屋 | — | 4.72 236 reviews | 2.2 km | ＪＲ 米沢駅より白布天元台行バスにて約４５分 |
| 別邸 山の季 | — | — | 2.3 km | 東北自動車道→福島JCT→東北中央自動車道（新）→米沢中央ＩＣ→R121号→R2号→白布温泉方面へ約20分。 |
| 民宿 白布屋 | — | — | 2.3 km | 米沢駅より４０〜４５分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
8 Hotel
Nearest: 0.7 km
Nearest first
- Shintakayu Onsen Hotel 0.7 km
- Alb Tengendai Hotel 1 km
- 大平温泉 滝見屋 Hotel 1.8 km
- 白布温泉 西屋 Hotel 2.2 km
- 白布温泉 東屋 Hotel 2.2 km
- 別邸 山の季 Hotel 2.4 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Tengendai Kogen
- 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.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52