Sapporo Teine Overview
サッポロテイネSapporo Teine is a historic resort on Mt. Teine within Sapporo city limits, notable for hosting the alpine skiing and sliding events of the 1972 Winter Olympics — the first Winter Games held in Asia. Spanning Highland and Olympia zones from 340 m to 1,023 m, it offers 15 courses, a terrain park, and night skiing with direct access from central Sapporo in under an hour.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Night skiing Gondola access Terrain park
- Snow
- Cold, dry snow
- Terrain
- Beginner-friendly
- Season
- Long season Early opener
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 Sapporo.
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 4.9° to 22.3°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by how many riders it moves uphill each hour.
11 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.
2 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Sapporo → Teine (JR) + bus: Sapporo — (Hakodate Main Line, 12 min) — Teine Station — (Highland/Olympia Bus, 16 min) — Sapporo Teine
- Train + bus: New Chitose Airport — (Rapid Airport, 51 min) — Teine Station — (Highland/Olympia Bus, 16 min) — Sapporo Teine
Videos
Videos →What riders actually said on camera, timestamped to the moment.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“there we go okay here we go getting on the summit express this lift is a quad takes us basically to the top of the mountain and gives us access to the highland zone courses some great views from up here you can actually see sapporo city all the way down to the ocean it's gorgeous”
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“all right we made it to sapporo teine Highland which is the Upper Mountain there's a beautiful view of sapporo from up here you can see the city stretching all the way to the ocean it's gorgeous we're gonna head down City View Cruise which is one of the main intermediate runs”
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“底さ山頂の中級車コースですね。シティビュークルーズ。ここを滑ってみようと思います。なぜここかと言うとですね、私ここのコースが好きなんです。え、180都市札幌を真下に一望に見渡せるという1200m。素晴らしいコースですが。今日は何も見えん。”
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“今回は丁寧ハイランドにあるナチュラルコースをねご案内したいと思います さあこちら山頂からすぐ左側に入ります 初級者って変えているんですけどここねなかなか実はれ遊べるんすよ 壁が左右にあっていろいろあて噛めるねコースになってるんですよねー”
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“続いて最後の1本 シティビュークルーズの脇からナチュラルに入っていくぜ さて初級迂回コースのナチュラル 4000メートルの迂回コースって相当長いわね この赤いコースはなんといっても両側の壁で遊べるポイントが多いぜ”
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“ここは白樺サンシャインという初球車コースです レンタルの道具が借りれるオリンピアスキーセンターから1番近い初心者コースであり またナイターの営業もしているので皆さん必ず1回は滑るゲレンデじゃないかなと思います”