Appi Kogen Overview
安比高原スキー場Appi Kogen is one of Japan's largest single-operator ski resorts, in Hachimantai City, Iwate Prefecture, on the edge of Towada-Hachimantai National Park. Its 21 courses cover 282 hectares and a 708-metre vertical, and the Tohoku powder is consistent. There are ski-in/ski-out hotels, a terrain park and evening night skiing, and the runs suit every level.
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 →Average peak depth and the month it arrives, over every recorded season.
Typical base at the deepest half-month.
MeasuredClear skies
The share of a typical winter that is clear here, and the months the clear days fall in.
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 36 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
Winter runs from December 1 to March 31. A day counts as Clear when modelled cloud cover is 30% or less, Partly Cloudy from 31 to 79%, and Overcast from 80% up. A day with 5 cm or more of snowfall counts as Snow, whatever the cloud cover.
Cloud cover comes from the ERA5 reanalysis for the weather cell this resort sits in. It is checked against hours of sunshine measured at the nearest reporting station, lower down the valley.
The modelled cloud is compared with the station’s measured sunshine on the 3,243 winter days that have both. When the two agree poorly, the clear-day figure is given as a range instead of a single count.
The classification describes cloud over the resort’s weather cell, but nobody measures visibility on the hill. A cell that reads clear can still leave the upper mountain in cloud all day.
Mountain
Mountain →The spread from this mountain’s gentlest run to its steepest, ranked against the other mountains with pitch data.
Its runs range from 7.2° to 22.7°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
8 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Lift Tickets
Lift Tickets →The cost of an hour on the hill, for every ticket length.
Cheapest cost per hour among the compared passes.
MeasuredNight Skiing
Night Skiing →1 lift runs at night, 16:00 to 20:00, and at other hours on other nights.
Getting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
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 →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
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”