余呉高原リゾートYAP powder run
By: yap yogo · 2018-02-23
Yogo Kogen Resort is a ski area in Shiga, Japan, on slopes between roughly 515 and 703 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 6 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 3.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 249 cm of snowfall a season, 200th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (409 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (84 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 90 cm. Snowfall days average −1.3 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 309th of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 3 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
15.4℃
Max wind
6.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
515–703m
Across
1.2km
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
249 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
84 cm
A typical winter: 240 cm. The best: 409 cm.
World rank
743
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
200
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
227
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 645 m, 121 m below the national median.
Quality rank
309
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
43%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
18%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.24
Frequency 0.50
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.93
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imajo 365 | 3.0 km | 249 cm | 743 |
| Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 18 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
| Ohana Resort | 19 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Gransnow Okuibuki | 29 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 33 km | 113 cm | 2196 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 26% 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 23 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
70cmDec
90cmJan
67cmFeb
23cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 249 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 84 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 409 cm (4.9 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.
84
409
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
6
Run length
3.8km
Lifts
5
Vertical
185m
Top 737 m · base 552 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.2 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 22%
East 67%
South 8%
West 2%
89% 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 3
Intermediate 2
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- Magic carpet1
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8号 ↗From the resort: 6.6 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 福井河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 12.4 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 福井河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 15.8 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 滋賀国道事務所
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.
Okuibuki and Yogo webcams & snow report — all 5 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 栃ノ木峠 | Nature | 0.5 km |
| Kinome Pass木ノ芽峠 | Nature | 2.5 km |
| Kanegasaki Castle金ヶ崎城 | Historic site | 8 km |
| Kanegasaki-gū金崎宮 | Shrine | 8.1 km |
| Kehi Jingū氣比神宮 | Shrine | 8.5 km |
| Lake Yogo余呉湖 | Nature | 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: 35.6970, 136.1539
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: 9 km
Nearest first
- Manten Hotel Hotel 9 km
- Dormy Inn Tsuruga Hotel 9 km
- business hotel yamagata Hotel 9.1 km
- ビジネスホテルスイートピー Hotel 9.1 km
- Toyoko Inn Hotel 9.2 km
- Hotel Route-Inn Tsuruga Ekimae Hotel 9.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Shiga
- Is Western Japan Snowier Than It Looks? Our Model Against the Weather Stations Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52