Seki Onsen Ski Resort — snow, map, lift prices

Seki Onsen Ski Resort is a small, historic hot-spring ski area on the eastern flank of Mt. Myoko in Myoko City, Niigata, rising from a roughly 900 m base to a 1,210 m summit across just two lifts and a handful of mostly intermediate and advanced courses. Renowned as one of Japan's snowiest resorts — regularly ranked among the top three for snowfall, with peak accumulations exceeding 5 metres — it draws powder seekers with deep tree runs and, unusually for Honshu, no ban on off-piste riding, often staying open into early May.

Resort Location

Location of the resort on the map of Japan.

192.9 km from Tokyo · Resort base 860 m above Tokyo

310 m Vertical Drop

17 ha Skiable Area

900–1210m Base Elevation

5 Runs

2 Lifts

~1,000 /h Uphill capacity

1031 m Longest Run

37.2 ° Max Slope

Resort highlights

Access: Terrain park
Snow: Reliable powder
Terrain: Steep terrain Advanced terrain
Onsen: Open-air onsen Family onsen Ryokan stays Onsen nearby

Snow Report

Snow Report →

Average peak depth and the month it arrives, over every recorded season.

451cm

Typical base at the deepest half-month.

Measured

Half-month average snow depth across recorded seasons.

Clear skies

The share of a typical winter that is clear here, and the months the clear days fall in.

7clear days Estimated

They lean late: close to half of them arrive in March. Across the 37 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.

Checked against sunshine measured at Sekiyama. The same station validates Akakura Kanko Resort, Akakura Onsen Ski Resort, Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick, Lotte Arai Resort and Myoko Suginohara Ski Resort. This resort reads the same weather cell as Akakura Kanko Resort and Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick.

How a winter day is classified

The boundaries 30 / 80 / 5

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.

The two sources 2

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 confidence 0.72

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 limit —

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.

14thwidest of 40

Its runs range from 7.3° to 25.7°.

Estimated

Lifts

Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.

~1,491/h

2 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.

Estimated

Riders per hour (estimated)

Uphill capacity per lift. Values without a measured figure are estimated from lift type and carrier size.

Getting Here

Getting Here →

One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.

1gateways

1 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.

Measured

1 gateway cities converging on Seki Onsen Ski Resort by public transit.

Tokyo → Joetsu-Myoko (Shinkansen) + local train + bus: Tokyo Station — (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 127 min) — Joetsu-Myoko Station — (Myoko Haneuma Line, 31 min) — Sekiyama Station — (Seki-Tsubame Onsen Line (Myoko Megurin), 15 min) — Seki Onsen Ski Resort

The recommended public-transit route from each origin. Driving routes live on the Getting Here tab.