Average annual snowfall, peak base depth, snow quality, midwinter temperatures and storm patterns for every ski prefecture in Japan.
Snow depth and a seven-day snowfall forecast for ski areas across Japan on one page, with temperature, snowfall and wind adjusted for base and summit elevation.
Snow on the Sea of Japan side comes from north-west winds hitting the mountains. When the wind swings north-west, Niseko, Myoko and Yuzawa stack up fast.
Forecast data refreshes hourly and sits beside the webcam stills, so you can check visibility and surface conditions that numbers alone never show.
We cover 513 ski areas and 123 live webcams in total, across Hokkaido, Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture.