Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama Overview
志賀高原 焼額山スキー場Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama is the Prince Hotel-operated sub-area at the northern end of the Shiga Kogen complex. Two gondolas and three chairlifts serve its 20 runs and roughly 93 hectares. It hosted the 1998 Nagano Olympic alpine and snowboard events and still operates the Olympic course; the base sits at 1,550m with a 450m vertical to a 2,000m summit.
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
- Onsen
- Open-air onsen Family onsen Ryokan stays Onsen nearby
- Season
- Long season Late closer
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 34 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Sugadaira. The same station validates Palcall Tsumagoi Resort. This resort does not have its weather cell to itself: 2 of the resorts in the fit read the same one.
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 7.1° to 20.2°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
5 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Lift Tickets
Lift Tickets →The cost of an hour on the hill, for every ticket length.
Cheapest cost per hour among the compared passes.
MeasuredGetting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
3 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Tokyo → Nagano Station (Shinkansen) + bus: board:Tokyo Station — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (志賀高原線（急行）, 120 min) — Shiga Kogen Prince Hotel West (Yakebitaiyama base)
- Shinkansen via Tokyo + Nagaden express bus: Tokyo Haneda Airport — (東京モノレール, 15 min) — Hamamatsucho — (山手線, 10 min) — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (志賀高原線（急行）, 120 min) — Shiga Kogen Prince Hotel West (Yakebitaiyama base)
- Shinkansen via Toyama + Nagaden express bus: Toyama Airport — (富山空港連絡バス, 25 min) — Toyama Station — (北陸新幹線, 55 min) — Nagano Station — (志賀高原線（急行）, 120 min) — Shiga Kogen Prince Hotel West (Yakebitaiyama base)
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“Let's go to the D3 ungroomed course that is open now. Japanese Bowing Yesterday, only the ungroomed course D3 was open, so I think the snow is bumpy. But I'll go anyway.”
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“よし、じゃあ次はパノラマインコース行きましょう。パノラマインインコースです。ま、ほぼほぼ同じルートなんだけどね。ま、ファルナマインコースはいつね、お取り壊しにして、あの、メイン構成の雪しに使われちゃうかわかんないで、相手の位置に使われてね。”
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“はい、第1ゴンダラの山頂です。まずはジャイアントスラロームの1本目です。ほとんどのレケ地がこのジャイアントスラロームからホテル前連に集中しています。A1からD1。この1本でほとんどのロケチを紹介できますのでご注目ください。”
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“はいえB1パノラマコースからえC2の白樺コースいうはいこのコースの特徴ははいえB1ののところはですねえまゆったりとえっと景色を見ながら行くんですけどえそのままですねB1は景色が途中で切れてしですねなんですけど”
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“まだオープン2日目ということもあって滑れるコースは b 1から e 1-2コースのみになっていたんですが距離としてはなんと1800メーターをんどらー一つをまるまるすべておいてこれるような状況”
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“オリンピックコース1回も滑んなかったかもしんないからちょっとここで1回滑っとこうかな。うん。今週ね、オリンピックコースね、あの、ちょっと1日ぐらいに楽しみね、日を作ろうかなと思ってるんで”