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WhitePIA Takasu

ホワイトピアたかす
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WhitePIA Takasu is a ski area in Gifu, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,061 and 1,353 m. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 20 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 8.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 220 cm of snowfall a season, 236th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (399 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (136 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 75 cm. Snowfall days average −4.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 208th 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
13℃
Max wind
6.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
1061–1353m
Across
1.9km

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
220 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
136 cm
A typical winter: 204 cm. The best: 399 cm.
World rank
953
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
236
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
86
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,165 m, 399 m above the national median.
Quality rank
208
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
14%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.46
Frequency 0.41
Freedom from rain 0.44
Calm when snowing 0.98

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Washigatake Ski Area1.1 km220 cm953
Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area2.7 km220 cm953
Shirao Ski Area5.8 km220 cm953
Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort6.4 km220 cm953
Meiho Ski Resort8.1 km193 cm1217

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 41% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 31 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

67cm
Dec
75cm
Jan
46cm
Feb
31cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 220 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 136 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 399 cm (2.9 times as much).

399
136
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
20
Run length
8.8km
Lifts
4
Vertical
329m
Top 1,394 m · base 1,066 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.9 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 44%
East 3%
South 1%
West 53%

Only 47% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3
Intermediate 8
Advanced 5
Other 4

Lift types

  • Chairlift4

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.

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 15 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
蛭ヶ野鉱泉2.2 km15℃ cold5.8 mildly acidic—1955

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Bokka no Sato牧歌の里Park3.7 km
ひるがの高原Nature6.3 km
Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳Mountain10.7 km
Amidaga Falls阿弥陀ケ滝Nature11 km
Shōkawa-zakura荘川桜Nature14.2 km
Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉Nature18.5 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.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
郡上ヴァカンス村ホテル¥2,1603.94 280 reviews2.8 km長良川鉄道「美濃白鳥駅」より車で約30分/東海北陸自動車道「ひるがの高原SAスマートIC」より6Km(約7分)
モリソラの家¥4,600—3.7 km名神一宮JCから60分 / 高鷲ICから5分 / 北濃駅よりお車にて約20分
鷲ヶ岳高原ホテル・レインボー¥8,0004.20 279 reviews2.1 km東海北陸自動車道 高鷲ICから5km
貸別荘 鷲ヶ岳 ポン太ハウス——2.5 km東海北陸自動車道 高鷲ICより車で5分
ゲストハウス西洞館——2.5 km高鷲ICから車で10分。バスツアーの方も徒歩で来れます!鷲ヶ岳スキー場にくるならここ!!!
鷲ヶ岳高原ホテル本館・新館—3.90 23 reviews2.9 km東海北陸自動車道 高鷲ICより約4km
ペットと泊まれるログハウス貸し別荘 ゆがふ“あけの”——3.6 km美濃白鳥駅よりお車にて約20分

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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