【八千穂高原スキー場】2026シーズン公式PV
By: 八千穂高原スキー場【公式チャンネル】 · 2026-09-09
Yachiho Kōgen Ski Resort is a ski area in Nagano, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,608 and 2,010 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 7 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 136 cm of snowfall a season, 339th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2023/24 (176 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025/26 (83 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 49 cm. Snowfall days average −5.2 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 234th of 397 in Japan.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
9.9℃
Max wind
6.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
1608–2010m
Across
1.4km
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
136 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
83 cm
A typical winter: 136 cm. The best: 176 cm.
World rank
1860
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
339
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
12
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,750 m, 984 m above the national median.
Quality rank
234
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.2°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
9%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
6%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
12 km/h
Dryness 0.51
Frequency 0.18
Freedom from rain 0.76
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chateraise Ski Valley Koumi | 3.1 km | 136 cm | 1860 |
| Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort | 5.8 km | 143 cm | 1761 |
| Tateshina Tokyu Ski Area | 11 km | 136 cm | 1860 |
| Shirakaba 2 in 1 | 11 km | 133 cm | 1909 |
| Shirakaba Kogen Kokusai Ski | 11 km | 140 cm | 1801 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 49 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
20cmDec
34cmJan
33cmFeb
49cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 136 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 83 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 176 cm (2.1 times as much).
176
83
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
7
Run length
3.8km
Lifts
4
Vertical
188m
Top 1,831 m · base 1,643 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 15%
East 83%
South 2%
West 0%
98% 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 2
Advanced 2
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.
Shirakaba and Kurumayama webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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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 7.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 稲子湯温泉 | 3.6 km | 7.6℃ cold | 4.9 mildly acidic | sulphur, carbon dioxide | 1999 |
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 Kitayoko北横岳 | Mountain | 5.4 km |
| Kitayatsugatake Ropeway北八ヶ岳ロープウエイ | Nature | 5.7 km |
| Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group北八ヶ岳 | Mountain | 5.8 km |
| Mount Tateshina蓼科山 | Mountain | 8.2 km |
| Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group八ヶ岳 | Nature | 10.9 km |
| Lake Megami女神湖 | Nature | 12.2 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: 36.0688, 138.3756
Places to stay nearby
7 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ロッヂ八ヶ嶺 | ¥7,200 | 5.00 13 reviews | 1.2 km | 中部横断自動車道佐久穂ICより20分 中央道須玉ＩＣより６０分 |
| ペンション ラ・ルゥ | ¥8,500 | 3.50 6 reviews | 0.4 km | JR小海線 八千穂駅 車で25分 |
| フォレストリゾート 北八ヶ岳 天空の森 やちほ | ¥8,663 | 4.54 24 reviews | 1.6 km | ＪＲ 八千穂駅から車で約２０分 |
| 八千穂山荘 | ¥9,900 | 4.20 42 reviews | 0.4 km | 上信越自動車道・佐久小諸JCT→中部横断道・八千穂高原I.C経由で約45分／JR小海線八千穂駅バスまたはタクシー約20分 |
| 白駒荘 | ¥14,500 | 4.63 56 reviews | 2.5 km | 茅野駅または佐久平駅より白駒池有料駐車場まで車にて約1時間、そこから山道木道徒歩約15分 |
| ロッジ エル・ケーナ | — | — | 0.4 km | JR小海線 八千穂駅より車で約20分、中部横断自動車道 E52 八千穂高原ICから約18分 |
| 青苔荘 | — | — | 2.2 km | ＪＲ小海線 八千穂駅より千曲バス（１日２本）乗車→白駒池入口下車、徒歩５分 |
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Stay nearby
1 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Nagano
- A Historic El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA gives a very strong El Niño better than a 90% chance this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest of the twelve left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- 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.
- How Japan's Early-Bird Lift Tickets Work: At Hakuba Happo-One, Eight of the Nine Need a Japanese ID Card Hakuba Happo-One opened early-bird sales at 10:00 on 1 October. A day costs ¥6,400 against ¥9,800 at the window, 35% off. But every ticket on the list except one needs a My Number Card and a Japanese phone app. A visitor from abroad can buy exactly one of them, at 15% off.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52