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. Spanning North and South areas across 189 ha and 33 runs, it offers consistent cold snow, five themed snow parks, and limited night skiing — popular with domestic skiers seeking 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 →How deep the snow gets, and when — averaged across recorded seasons.
Typical base at the deepest half-month.
MeasuredClear skies
How much of a typical winter here is actually clear, and when those days fall.
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 41 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
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.
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.
How closely the modelled cloud tracks the station’s measured sunshine, over the 3,121 winter days both sources hold a value for. Below the cut, the figure is stated as a range instead of a count.
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.
Its runs range from 3.9° to 25.2°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by how many riders it moves uphill each hour.
13 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Lift Tickets
Lift Tickets →What an hour of skiing actually costs, across every ticket length.
Cheapest cost per hour among the compared passes.
MeasuredGetting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public route from each gateway, all leading here.
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 →What riders actually said on camera, timestamped to the moment.
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”