Hakuba Cortina Snow 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.
This mountain faces several ways at once, mostly south-east.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
530 m, more than 7 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
稗田山 (Mt. Hieda)
- Landform
- Both this resort and its neighbour sit on Mt. Hieda, and the runs fall away from it on the eastern side. The far side of that mountain gave way in August 1911 in one of the three largest collapses recorded in Japan, sending an estimated 150 million cubic metres down the Ura river and damming the Hime. The valley fill under the lower runs is the sort of ground that event left behind. The lifts stop about 50 m below its 1,443 m summit.
- Rock
- High up, the rock is early Pleistocene volcanic rock, andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris; lower down it is valley terrace. The change from volcanic ground to valley fill sits roughly where the pitch eases.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-08-12
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces south-east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the south-east.
02
How steep it gets
The steepest quarter of the runs faces east, a different way from the mountain overall.
Its steepest pitch measures 36.9°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 32 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
25.9° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 6.0° to 27.7°.
Half of them are gentler than 12.4°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 30 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