Hakuba Norikura Onsen Snow Resort Mountain

The lifts stop at 1,280 m. The mountain keeps going to 2,069 m — another 789 m of ground stands above the highest lift.

That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.

A pixel relief map of the ground around Hakuba Norikura Onsen Snow Resort, drawn from elevation data for the surveyed area — its ridges and valleys in eight tones of ink.

01Which way it faces

N E S W

Faces south-east.

Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the south-east.

02How steep it gets

17.7° the steepest tenth of runs

That steep ground sits high on the mountain.

The steepest quarter of the runs faces east, a different way from the mountain overall.

Its steepest pitch measures 34.1°.

03How it compares

520 m of vertical — more than 5 of the 29 mountains on JapowDB.

Its steepest tenth is steeper than 11 of the 28 mountains here that carry pitch data.