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 →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.
They are spread through the season, with March the strongest single stretch. Across the 39 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Sugadaira. The same station validates Okushiga Kogen and Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama.
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 3,243 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 3.7° to 12.8°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
4 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Getting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
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