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Yabuhara Kogen is a ski area in Nagano, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,141 and 1,671 m. Its mapped area is about 2.6 km across, with 17 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 182 cm of snowfall a season, 287th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (315 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (109 cm). March still brings 47 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 11.9 km away measured 235 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 166 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 279th 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
10.9℃
Max wind
4.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
1141–1671m
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
182 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
109 cm
A typical winter: 178 cm. The best: 315 cm.
World rank
1298
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
287
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
39
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,469 m, 703 m above the national median.
Quality rank
279
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.9°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
17%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
8%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.42
Frequency 0.23
Freedom from rain 0.56
Calm when snowing 0.97
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kisofukushima Ski Resort | 5.1 km | 231 cm | 865 |
| Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort | 10.0 km | 318 cm | 408 |
| Mia Ski Resort | 20 km | 250 cm | 734 |
| Asahi Prime Ski Area | 20 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
| Blue Resort Norikura | 21 km | 317 cm | 421 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 90% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 47 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
41cmDec
52cmJan
43cmFeb
47cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 182 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 109 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 315 cm (2.9 times as much).
315
109
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
17
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
6
Vertical
552m
Top 1,676 m · base 1,124 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.1 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 81%
East 15%
South 0%
West 4%
96% 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
Novice 1
Easy 4
Intermediate 5
Advanced 6
Other 1
Lift types
- Chairlift6
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.
Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 開田高原 weather station — 11.9 km from this ski area, 276 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 235 cm |
| 2023/24 | 299 cm |
| 2024/25 | 259 cm |
| 2025/26 | 147 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 166 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yabuhara-juku藪原宿 | Old streets | 5.2 km |
| Narai-juku奈良井宿 | Old streets | 7.2 km |
| Fukushima-juku福島宿 (中山道) | Old streets | 12.4 km |
| Niekawa-juku贄川宿 | Old streets | 12.8 km |
| Nomugi Pass野麦峠 | Mountain | 15.5 km |
| Mount Kisokoma木曽駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 19.8 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: 35.9577, 137.7319
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 高原荘＜長野県木曽郡＞ | — | — | 1.2 km | ＪＲ 薮原駅よりバスで２０分／国道１９号より車で１５分 |
| やぶはら高原 山の家 | — | — | 1.2 km | ＪＲ中央西線「薮原駅」よりバスにて２０分。Ｒ１９号よりお車にて１０分。 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52