Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort Overview
軽井沢プリンスホテルスキー場Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort sits next to the Karuizawa Prince Hotel and the Prince Shopping Plaza, within walking distance of JR Karuizawa Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen, about an hour from Tokyo. Its 14 courses cover 30 hectares over a 215-metre vertical drop, snowmaking lets it open around the start of November, and children through elementary school ride the lifts free.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Terrain park
- Terrain
- Beginner-friendly
- Season
- Long season
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
This resort was added after the sky fit was last cut, so JapowDB cannot yet say how many clear days a winter here holds.
The forecast strip on the snow report is unaffected. It still answers what the sky will do over the next three days.
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.
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 5.4° to 19.5°.
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.
MeasuredGetting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
4 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Tokyo Station to Karuizawa (Hokuriku Shinkansen) + free shuttle: board:Tokyo Station — Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 76 min) — Karuizawa Station — (Free shuttle bus) — Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort
- Monorail + Hokuriku Shinkansen (via Haneda): Tokyo Haneda Airport — (Tokyo Monorail, 19 min) — Hamamatsucho — (Yamanote Line, 6 min) — Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 76 min) — Karuizawa Station — (Free shuttle bus) — Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort
- Narita Express + Hokuriku Shinkansen (via Narita): Tokyo Narita Airport — (Narita Express (N'EX), 61 min) — Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 76 min) — Karuizawa Station — (Free shuttle bus) — Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort
- Tokaido + Hokuriku Shinkansen via Tokyo (from Nagoya): Nagoya Station — (Tokaido Shinkansen, 100 min) — Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 76 min) — Karuizawa Station — (Free shuttle bus) — Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“スタートのことなんで、え、そこ行ってみましょうか。 ま、パラレル構成昔滑ったことあったか どうかちょっと自信がないんだけど、ま、 それ以前にあの完全にね、これは勢いを つけていくべき。勢いをつけていくやつ。 ああ、なるほど。そういう感じで。オッケ オッケー。ここはいくつけて行かずに。 うん。はい。こんな感じで目の前が とりあえずあの花のコとかね。で、この ああ、いい斜面だな。やっぱハルプティの 斜面[笑い]結構つける。で、こっから 迂いていうかね、連絡コースができたとの”
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“ボコボコ人口の自然コブバーンに早変わり ですお次はゲレンでカの栗のきコースの 状況になります こちらは午前11時頃のコンディション このコースは初心者向けバーンです がシャドが緩めのコース設計なので スノーボードなら裏取りがはり ます連休中にはパークもできるのですが 今日はポコジャだけできてまし たこの辺りにレールが置かれますが アイテムできるとコースも狭く”
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“This is the Panorama Trail. According to the leaflet, a connecting route to the Parallel Trail has been created from here, but on this day the route was closed.”
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“ます ます栗のきコースはですねえっとコース あのオープン始めからですけれどもえ すでにですねキッカーやレールなどもご 用意させていただいてましてえ スノーボードのやられる方なんかはこちら すごくお楽しみいただけるんじゃないかと どちらもあの全長約400mぐらいの コースが2コースとなって ますなかなか [音楽]”
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“右手はD3中級コース そして左側が初級コースのD1コースです 軽井沢のこのエリアは 雪が多く降らないため 人工降雪機の雪（ザラメ状の氷）で 気温の低い朝と夕方はカチカチの アイスバーンになっていることが多いです 斜度はこれくらい”
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“ここがプリンスホテルの正面にあるゲレンデ 初級者コースなので人も多いですね まだ午前中なのにもう小さなコブができてる！ 中級コースよりも難易度高いかも💦”