Takasu Snow Park Mountain
The landform the resort sits on: the shape of the hill beyond the pistes, how steep it gets, and where it stands among the mountains on JapowDB.
Broadly one hillside, leaning to the east.
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
600 m, more than 13 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
大日ヶ岳 (Dainichi-ga-take)
- Landform
- The eastern flank of an andesite volcano in the Ryohaku range, part of the Kuzuryu volcanic line, active from about 5 million to 800,000 years ago. It has been dead a long time and worn down ever since. The lifts stop roughly 190 m below the 1,708.9 m summit.
- Rock
- Andesite lava and pyroclastic rock, early Pleistocene, and the same the whole way down. It is one volcanic body, all of it the same age.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-08-12
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the east.
02
How steep it gets
The steepest quarter of the runs faces south, a different way from the mountain overall.
Its steepest pitch measures 32.8°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 26 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
20.8° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 7.3° to 27.0°.
Half of them are gentler than 14.2°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 25 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
04
What grows on it
Mostly deciduous: broadleaf woods and larch. They stand bare through the winter, so you can see a long way into them.
Read off the national vegetation survey (2024 edition), from fieldwork in 2007.
The forest on this mountain, in detail