Appi Kogen Overview
安比高原スキー場Appi Kogen is one of Japan's largest single-operator ski resorts, set in Hachimantai City, Iwate Prefecture, on the edge of Towada-Hachimantai National Park. Its 282 hectares span 21 courses across a 708-metre vertical, receiving consistent Tohoku powder. Ski-in/ski-out hotel accommodation, a terrain park, and evening night skiing make it a complete destination for all levels.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Night skiing Gondola access Terrain park
- Snow
- Cold, dry snow
- Onsen
- Open-air onsen Family onsen Ryokan stays Onsen nearby
- Season
- Long season Late closer
Snow Report
Snow Report →How deep the snow gets, and when — averaged across recorded seasons.
Typical base at the deepest half-month.
MeasuredClear skies
How much of a typical winter here is actually clear, and when those days fall.
Here the modelled cloud and the station’s measured sunshine disagree by more than the cut allows, so the figure is stated as a range.
EstimatedThey gather at the end — more than half of them arrive in March. Across the 41 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Iwate-Matsuo.
How a winter day is classified
A winter here means December 1 to March 31. A day is Clear at or below 30% modelled cloud cover, Partly Cloudy from 31 to 79%, and Overcast at 80% and above. A day carrying 5 cm or more of falling snow is Snow before any cloud value is read.
Cloud cover comes from the ERA5 reanalysis archive for this resort’s weather cell. The check comes from hours of sunshine measured at the nearest reporting station, which sits lower down the valley.
How closely the modelled cloud tracks the station’s measured sunshine, over the 3,243 winter days both sources hold a value for. Below the cut, the figure is stated as a range instead of a count.
The classification describes sky cover over the resort’s weather cell, not visibility measured on the hill. A resort can sit in cloud at altitude on a day its cell reads clear.
Mountain
Mountain →How much the pitch varies across this mountain — the gap between its gentlest run and its steepest, ranked against the other mountains here that carry pitch data.
Its runs range from 7.2° to 22.7°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by how many riders it moves uphill each hour.
8 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Lift Tickets
Lift Tickets →What an hour of skiing actually costs, across every ticket length.
Cheapest cost per hour among the compared passes.
MeasuredGetting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public route from each gateway, all leading here.
2 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Tokyo → Morioka (Shinkansen) + Hanawa Line + shuttle: Tokyo Station — (Tohoku Shinkansen (Hayabusa), 130 min) — Morioka Station — (JR Hanawa Line, 60 min) — Appi-Kogen Station — (Resort Shuttle, 16 min) — ANA Crowne Plaza Resort Appi Kogen
- Bus/train to Morioka + resort shuttle: Iwate Hanamaki Airport — (Iwate Kenpoku Bus, 45 min) — Morioka Station — (Resort Shuttle, 70 min) — ANA Crowne Plaza Resort Appi Kogen
Videos
Videos →What riders actually said on camera, timestamped to the moment.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“the gondola is a 2.8 kilometers ride up the mountain which took us about 10 minutes to get right to the highest point of the ski resort introducing yamabato run which is a 5.5 kilometer green run which takes you all the way from the top to the bottom of the slope non-stop if your legs can take it the most intimidating part is probably just at the start of the run where it is relatively narrow on the positive side check out that view it can get a bit windy up here but the run itself is generally well groomed and not very steep at all”
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“one of the best views is actually on the slope here pretty sick when I when doing long sessions it's nicely to stop here and and think just like meditate sort of ish thing about think about nothing sometimes just kind of take in everything almost there so that was a rundown yamavato I'm gonna go hit that uh otaka off camera”
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“hi everyone I'm gonna call today I'd like to introduce acaba get in there means white birch slope English so it had one two three four parts means love the left side is a slightly gentle de memoire and a family park over there so let's go to st. Roch what to enjoy follow me we're going to central quad”
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“hi everyone i'm nanako today i introduce you hayabusa third round so going up with a central second lift and going down and you can see central third lift so if you turn left it's it's the course follow me this goes from top to almost bottom a japan national competition uses this course sometimes”
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“hi everyone i'm nanako today i'd like to introduce kakesura kakesu course it's going up with the central to lift and right side it's a kakezura follow me we are going right side and about 30 30 meter long it's a bit steep but otherwise super gentle so it's good for beginners”
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“hi everyone I'm nanako today I'd like to introduce you OTA second R otaka is big hwk in English I think so going up with Central quad and on the right side there is second lift and we could go with this lift follow me slly deep here”