Hoshino Resorts Nekoma Overview
猫魔スキー場Hoshino Resorts Nekoma is a powder-rich resort in the Bandai highlands of Fukushima Prefecture, Tohoku. Its North and South areas hold 33 runs across 189 ha, with consistent cold snow, five themed snow parks and limited night skiing. It is popular with domestic skiers who want uncrowded terrain.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Night skiing Terrain park
- Onsen
- Open-air onsen Family onsen Ryokan stays Onsen nearby
- Season
- Long season Late closer
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
The share of a typical winter that is clear here, and the months the clear days fall in.
Here the modelled cloud and the station’s measured sunshine disagree by more than the cut allows, so the figure is stated as a range.
EstimatedThey are packed into the finish: most of a winter’s clear days arrive in March. Across the 39 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Inawashiro.
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.
Cloud cover comes from the ERA5 reanalysis for the weather cell this resort sits in. It is checked against hours of sunshine measured at the nearest reporting station, lower down the valley.
The modelled cloud is compared with the station’s measured sunshine on the 3,121 winter days that have both. When the two agree poorly, the clear-day figure is given as a range instead of a single count.
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 3.9° to 25.2°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
13 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.
MeasuredNight Skiing
Night Skiing →1 lift runs at night, 16:30 to 20:00.
Getting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
1 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Shinkansen + shuttle (via Koriyama): Tokyo Station — (東北新幹線, 80 min) — Koriyama — (NEKOMA South Area Shuttle, 70 min) — Nekoma Mountain
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
4 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“This resort is truly enormous. We spent the entire day mostly skiing in the small Green run area on the south side. There is a free magic carpet short slope practice area here, which is great for beginners to practice. After practicing on the magic carpet, we can take the First Chair lift. There are two Green runs to ski down from the top. The first is the Zunai-2 run, which is about 700 meters long. Although most of it is a gentle and wide slope, you should be aware that the last 100 meters has”
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“さすがにディープもこの1本で十分 [音楽]かなって思いました。 再びフレンドリーゲレンデです。 フレンドリーゲレンでは滑走してる人が とにかく多い印象でした。リフト待ちも数 分から5分程度はあり、常にこんな状態 でした。さすがに朝と比べると大部コース が荒れてしまいました。南エリアよりは 行く文化マしですが、他のコース同様に雪 がだいぶ柔らかいです。先週来た時はこの 時間でもフレンドリーゲレンでは説明が しっかりしていたので期待[音楽]したの ですが、残念ながら今週はかなり緩んで しまいました。ということでまともに滑走 できる[音楽]のはエキサイトしかないと 判断し、この後ひたすらエキサイトを周回 [音楽]してました。お昼も近いという ことでリフト待ちはほぼゼロ。滑走して いる人も他のコースから比べる[音楽]と 少なかったのでショートターンからロング ターンまで自由時在に楽しめました。”
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“なんでこんな目に合わなかんねん。 あ、柔らかさが全然違う。 どういうことな?にお母さんガリガリ滑りが上手になったな。 上手じゃないよ。もう大嫌いだよ。こんなガリガリしたとこ。 え、 飛びます、飛びます。おお、下の方で飛んでる。 あのスキーで飛ぶん人だ。 お うやほい。 おお。 うまい。 なんかこうやって見たら俺らうまいのかなと思われる。 デビル1にはコブのコースが 1本ありました。 コブラックだ。 これは上級車のラインなので近づきません 。よいしょ。 雪が溶けてすごく重たいですよ。 ヤッホー。あれあ、入っちゃった。りゃ”
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“おはいそれではこの丸山第2ペア乗って こっち側はいラポーレイン行ってみ ましょうはい丸山第2上がってきましたえ こっちが ラフォーレインかなはいラフォーレインて いう方行ってみ ましょうよいしょさ綺麗なアテ [音楽] パおおパウダー う う”