Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Overview
パルコール嬬恋スキーリゾートPalcall Tsumagoi Resort is a high-elevation ski area on the eastern slopes of Mt. Azumaya in Tsumagoi, Gunma, running from a roughly 1,370m base up to about 2,100m. It is known for one of Japan's longest gondolas at around 3.2km and one of the country's largest terrain parks, with a long, snow-reliable season from December to early April.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Gondola access Terrain park
- Snow
- Cold, dry snow
- Terrain
- High alpine Beginner-friendly
- Onsen
- Onsen nearby
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.
They are spread through the season, with March the strongest single stretch. Across the 41 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Sugadaira. The same station validates Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama.
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 3,243 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 3.7° to 12.8°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by how many riders it moves uphill each hour.
4 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 to Karuizawa + resort shuttle: Haneda Airport — (Tokyo Monorail Haneda Line, 15 min) — Hamamatsucho — (JR Yamanote Line, 10 min) — Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen (Asama), 70 min) — Karuizawa Station — (Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Shuttle, 50 min) — Palcall Tsumagoi Resort