Niseko United 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.
This mountain faces several ways at once, mostly east.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
933 m, more than 29 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
ニセコアンヌプリ (Niseko Annupuri)
- Landform
- A stratovolcano, and the main peak of the Niseko range. It threw out andesite lava over and over between roughly 700,000 and 250,000 years ago, then went quiet. The four ski areas sit on four sides of the one cone, and the lifts stop about 120 m under its 1,308.2 m summit.
- Rock
- Andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris, middle Pleistocene, and the same top to bottom. The cone is built out of what it erupted.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-08-12
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the east.
02
How steep it gets
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 19 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
18.7° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 2.7° to 21.9°.
Half of them are gentler than 13.1°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 23 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 2021.
The forest on this mountain, in detail