Nozawa Onsen 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.
This mountain faces several ways at once, mostly north-west, west and north.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
1,085 m, more than 32 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
毛無山 (Kenashi-yama) 1,650 m
- Landform
- One volcano, and you ride it from the summit down into the village. The lifts reach the top, so the 1,085 m under your feet is the full height of the mountain.
- Rock
- Andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris, early Pleistocene, and the same at the top as at the bottom, over the biggest vertical on JapowDB.
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
Several faces: north-west, west and north.
The mapped runs fall away down more than one side of the hill.
02
How steep it gets
The steepest quarter of the runs faces north, a different way from the mountain overall.
Its steepest pitch measures 39.8°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 23 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
20.0° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 2.0° to 26.4°.
Half of them are gentler than 11.7°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 31 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
04
What grows on it
This mountain has both, in separate patches. The deciduous stands drop their leaves and open up for the winter; the conifer stands stay closed.
Read off the national vegetation survey (2024 edition), from fieldwork in 2013.
The forest on this mountain, in detail