Kandatsu 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.
Broadly one hillside, leaning to the north.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
540 m, more than 9 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
白板山
- Landform
- The lifts run up the north side of Shiraita-yama and stop at 970 m, about 280 m below its 1,248 m summit. The ground keeps climbing south from the top station without ever dropping away, so what you ski is the lower third of one hillside.
- Rock
- The rock is Miocene non-marine mudstone, and it does not change from the top of the lifts to the base. It is river and lake sediment, with nothing volcanic anywhere in it, and the ground is soft and evenly graded.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-08-13
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces north.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the north.
02
How steep it gets
Its steepest pitch measures 41.1°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 25 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
20.8° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 5.0° to 21.8°.
Half of them are gentler than 13.9°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 17 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 2013.
The forest on this mountain, in detail