利尻山の山頂に雪が見えました
10月４日の朝、開基百年記念塔の展望室からは夜間冷え込みで空気が澄んでいるせいか景色がはっきり見え、利尻、礼文、サハリン、モネロン島の美しい島影が望めています。 そして
Wakkanaishi Komadori Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 6 and 41 m. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 3 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 0.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 224 cm of snowfall a season, 229th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (304 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (128 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (70 and 70 cm on average). Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 9 km away measured 527 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 276 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.3 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 177th of 397 in Japan.
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.
Temperature
12.9℃
Max wind
33.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
6–41m
Across
0.4km
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
224 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
128 cm
A typical winter: 242 cm. The best: 304 cm.
World rank
924
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
229
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
394
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 38 m, 728 m below the national median.
Quality rank
177
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
7%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
13%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
31 km/h
Dryness 0.38
Frequency 0.36
Freedom from rain 0.81
Calm when snowing 0.82
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarufutsu Sonei Ski Area | 33 km | 215 cm | 995 |
| Toyotomi Ski Area | 37 km | 191 cm | 1235 |
| Higashigaoka Ski Area | 43 km | 191 cm | 1235 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 53% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 37 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
70cmDec
70cmJan
48cmFeb
37cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 224 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 128 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 304 cm (2.4 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.
128
304
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
3
Run length
0.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
50m
Top 56 m · base 5 m
Run map
IntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.3 km
Steepest pitch14°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 7%
East 92%
South 0%
West 0%
99% 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
Intermediate 2
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 声問 weather station — 9 km from this ski area, 15 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 527 cm |
| 2023/24 | 477 cm |
| 2024/25 | 598 cm |
| 2025/26 | 507 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 276 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Port of Wakkanai稚内港 | Landmark | 2.8 km |
| Wakkanai Station稚内駅 | Landmark | 3.4 km |
| Wakkanai Breakwater Dome北防波堤ドーム | Leisure | 3.7 km |
| Wakkanai Park稚内公園 | Park | 3.9 km |
| Lake Ōnuma大沼 (稚内市) | Nature | 5.6 km |
| Cape Noshappu野寒布岬 | Nature | 7.7 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 ↗ Coordinates: 45.3876, 141.6881
Places to stay nearby
12 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ｃａｓａ ｈｏｔｅｌ | ¥4,400 | 3.86 14 reviews | 1.4 km | JR南稚内駅より徒歩2分、JR稚内駅よりお車約５分／バス約８分／自転車約10分／徒歩約30分 |
| 旅館山一 | ¥6,380 | 4.33 448 reviews | 2.4 km | ＪＲ 稚内駅から車で５分 |
| ホテルニューチコウ | ¥6,520 | 3.83 314 reviews | 1.5 km | ＪＲ 南稚内駅から徒歩で約５分 |
| べっどぷらす | ¥6,560 | 3.75 20 reviews | 3.1 km | 稚内駅より徒歩7分、稚内フェリーターミナルより徒歩8分。カーナビ使用時は電話番号は使用不可（住所をご利用ください）。 |
| ホテル御園 | ¥7,700 | 4.19 386 reviews | 1.1 km | JR南稚内駅より徒歩3分。稚内空港より車で15分 |
| ホテル 奥田屋 | ¥8,250 | 4.27 441 reviews | 1.0 km | ＪＲ南稚内駅より徒歩6分。稚内空港よりバスで30分。 |
| さかえホテル | ¥8,250 | 2.90 242 reviews | 1.5 km | 南稚内駅より徒歩にて５分 |
| カプセルホテル ノースキャビン | ¥8,880 | 4.29 7 reviews | 1.1 km | 無料送迎バス（要予約）JR稚内駅１７：３０発ホテル行き・ホテル５：１５発JR稚内駅・フェリーT行き （１０月末まで） |
| ホテル 滝川 | ¥8,900 | 3.81 605 reviews | 2.3 km | ＪＲ 稚内駅から車で５分 |
| ホテル大将 | ¥10,100 | 4.04 281 reviews | 1.3 km | JR南稚内駅より徒歩3分/稚内空港より車で３0分 |
| 稚内グランドホテル | ¥12,200 | 4.03 902 reviews | 1.1 km | ＪＲ 南稚内駅より徒歩３分／稚内空港よりバス・車で約２０分 |
| ホテル宗谷 | — | — | 1.3 km | ＪＲ南稚内駅よこ／フェリー乗り場まで約10分／空港まで約20分／宗谷岬まで約50分 |
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Stay nearby
44 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
16 Hotel 13 Guest house 11 Chalet 3 Hostel 1 Apartment
Nearest: 1 km
Nearest first
- Okudaya Hotel 1 km
- Wakkanai Grand Hotel Hotel 1.1 km
- ホテル御園 Hotel 1.1 km
- チコウホテル Hotel 1.1 km
- Hotel Soya Hotel 1.2 km
- Hotel Kito Hotel 2.4 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
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- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52