Akakura Kanko Resort Mountain
The landform the resort sits on: the shape of the hill beyond the pistes, how steep it gets, and where it stands among the mountains on JapowDB.
One hillside, and it falls away to the east.
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
760 m, more than 22 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
前山 (Mae-yama)
- Above it
- 妙高山 (Myōkō-san) 2,454 m
- Landform
- The runs are on the east flank of Myoko, an andesite stratovolcano. The top was blown out into a caldera about 3 km across, and a lava dome has since grown in the middle of it: that dome is the 2,454 m summit. Mae-yama is a peak on the rim above the runs. You ski the outside of the old cone, well below both.
- Rock
- The rock is andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris, from top to bottom. The rock does not change on the way down, but its age does. At the top of the lifts and at mid-mountain it is late Pleistocene, the body of the old volcano, and that is where the ground is steepest. At the base it is Holocene, younger volcanic material lying where the slope eases. The Japan Meteorological Agency records the Akakura pyroclastic flow reaching the foot of the mountain about 4,200 years ago.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-09-15
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the east.
02
How steep it gets
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Its steepest pitch measures 29.7°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 8 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
16.2° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 5.8° to 16.8°.
Half of them are gentler than 12.7°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 5 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
04
What grows on it
Mostly deciduous: broadleaf woods and larch. They stand bare through the winter, so you can see a long way into them.
Read off the national vegetation survey (2024 edition), from fieldwork in 2017.
The forest on this mountain, in detail