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Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area

横向温泉スキー場
Off season

Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area is a ski area in Fukushima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,035 and 1,256 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 4 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 296 cm of snowfall a season, 153rd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (383 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (151 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 96 cm. Snowfall days average −5.7 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 57th of 397 in Japan.

Below are links to 2 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
11.3℃
Max wind
6.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
1035–1256m
Across
1.0km

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
296 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
151 cm
A typical winter: 306 cm. The best: 383 cm.
World rank
496
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
153
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
100
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,095 m, 329 m above the national median.
Quality rank
57
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.7°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
11%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
20%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.55
Frequency 0.56
Freedom from rain 0.71
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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Minowa Ski Resort1.0 km296 cm496
Numajiri Ski4.5 km283 cm554
Adatara Kogen Ski Resort6.7 km283 cm554
Nihonmatsu Shiozawa6.8 km170 cm1416
Grandeco Snow Resort13 km379 cm206

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 59 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.

79cm
Dec
96cm
Jan
63cm
Feb
59cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 296 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 151 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 383 cm (2.5 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.

151
383
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
4
Run length
2km
Lifts
2
Vertical
68m
Top 1,140 m · base 1,072 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 5%
East 31%
South 33%
West 31%

Only 36% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 4

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. The nearest live view is the road below.

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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Hot springs nearby, as analysed

5 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 74.8 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
横向ホテルマウント磐梯0.5 km44.9℃ hot6.4 neutralsimple—
鷲倉鷲倉1 km45.2℃ hot2.6 acidicsimple—
赤湯赤湯好山荘1.4 km55.4℃ hot6.3 neutralsimple—
野地野地温泉ホテル1.4 km51.9℃ hot5.5 mildly acidicsimple—
幕川水戸屋3.2 km74.8℃ hot6.6 neutralsimple—

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
Mount Adatara安達太良山Mountain3.7 km
Tsuchiyu Onsen土湯温泉Hot spring town6.7 km
Mount Azuma-kofuji吾妻小富士Mountain7.8 km
Nihonmatsu Castle二本松城Historic site16.4 km
Mount Bandai磐梯山Mountain17.6 km
Lake Hibara桧原湖Nature18 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.

Places to stay nearby

3 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
幕川温泉 水戸屋旅館¥9,3003.50 29 reviews3.1 km福島駅よりお車で60分/福島交通 磐梯吾妻スカイライン行き「鷲倉温泉」下車 お車で10分(送迎あり。)
横向温泉 森の旅亭 マウント磐梯¥9,9004.24 176 reviews0.2 kmJR猪苗代駅よりバスで20分 猪苗代ICより車で25分  沼尻駅前下車(プランにより送迎有り)※要予約※
野地温泉ホテル¥15,4004.46 1270 reviews1.4 km福島駅よりお車にて約50分/東北自動車道福島ICより20km

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Stay nearby

7 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

7 Hotel

Nearest: 0.3 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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