Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Overview

池の平温泉アルペンブリックスキー場

Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick is a family-friendly resort in Myoko City, Niigata, with 16 courses across a 728-metre vertical drop fed by heavy Sea of Japan powder. Wide beginner and intermediate slopes, a 4 km top-to-bottom cruising run through birch and larch forest, and one of the most feature-rich snow parks in the Myoko area make it a well-rounded destination. An on-site natural hot spring completes the ski-and-soak experience.

Resort Location

Location of the resort on the map of Japan.

191.7 km from Tokyo · Resort base 719 m above Tokyo
728 m Vertical Drop
60 ha Skiable Area
759–1487m Base Elevation
17 Runs
5 Lifts
~6,000 /h Uphill capacity
1805 m Longest Run
23.5 ° Max Slope

Resort highlights

Access
Terrain park

Snow Report

Snow Report →

How deep the snow gets, and when — averaged across recorded seasons.

253cm

Typical base at the deepest half-month.

Measured
Peak · 253cm
Half-month average snow depth across recorded seasons.

Clear skies

How much of a typical winter here is actually clear, and when those days fall.

8clear days Estimated

They are spread through the season, with March the strongest single stretch. Across the 41 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.

Checked against sunshine measured at Sekiyama. The same station validates Myoko Suginohara Ski Resort. This resort does not have its weather cell to itself — 3 of the resorts in the fit read the same one.

How a winter day is classified
The boundaries 30 / 80 / 5

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.

The two sources 2

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.

The confidence 0.70

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.

What this does not say

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.

27thwidest of 29

Its runs range from 6.8° to 15.6°.

Estimated

Lifts

Every active lift, ranked by how many riders it moves uphill each hour.

~6,432/h

5 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.

Estimated
Ikenotaira Quad 2,000 /h · 4/car ALPEN BLICK PAIR #1 1,108 /h · 2/car Shirakaba Capsule Pair 1,108 /h · 2/car ALPEN BLICK PAIR #2 1,108 /h · 2/car Karamatsu Pair 1,108 /h · 2/car

Riders per hour (estimated)

Uphill capacity per lift. Values without a measured figure are estimated from lift type and carrier size.

Lift Tickets

Lift Tickets →

What an hour of skiing actually costs, across every ticket length.

¥920/h

Cheapest cost per hour among the compared passes.

Measured
Full day ¥6,900 · 7.5 h ¥920 /h Half day ¥5,600 · 4 h ¥1,400 /h
Adult walk-up fares (online where available) divided by the hours each pass is valid.

Getting Here

Getting Here →

One recommended public route from each gateway, all leading here.

4gateways

4 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.

Measured
4 gateway cities converging on Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick by public transit.
  • Tokyo → Nagano Station (Shinkansen) + bus: board:Tokyo Station — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (北しなの線, 40 min) — Myoko-Kogen Station — (アルペンブリック シャトルバス, 21 min) — Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
  • Shinkansen + local train + shuttle (via Tokyo): Tokyo Haneda Airport — (東京モノレール, 15 min) — Hamamatsucho — (山手線, 10 min) — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (北しなの線, 40 min) — Myoko-Kogen Station — (アルペンブリック シャトルバス, 21 min) — Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
  • Shinkansen + local train + shuttle (via Toyama): Toyama Airport — (富山空港線) — Toyama Station — (北陸新幹線, 40 min) — Joetsu-Myoko Station — (妙高はねうまライン, 35 min) — Myoko-Kogen Station — (アルペンブリック シャトルバス, 21 min) — Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
  • Direct reservation shuttle from Narita/Haneda: Narita/Haneda Airport — (Myoko Shuttle) — Myoko / Ikenotaira Onsen
4 gateway cities converging on Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick by public transit.
The recommended public-transit route from each origin. Driving routes live on the Getting Here tab.