Tangram Ski Circus Overview
タングラムスキーサーカスTangram Ski Circus sits on the flank of Mt. Madarao in Shinano Town, northern Nagano, with 19 courses fanning out from the summit down to the Hotel Tangram base across roughly 50 hectares and a 520-metre vertical. It connects with neighbouring Madarao Kogen at the summit, and a shared lift ticket expands the combined skiable terrain about 2.5 times.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Night skiing Terrain park
- 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.
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 35 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Shinano. The same station validates Madarao Mountain Resort. This resort reads the same weather cell as Akakura Onsen Ski Resort and Madarao Mountain Resort.
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 3,242 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 9.0° to 24.2°.
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.
MeasuredNight skiing
The resort keeps some lifts running after dark and lights the runs they reach.
Night season opens Dec 26. published by the resort source
12月26日(土)～1月3日(日)/1月９日(土)～2月27日(土)の毎週土曜日
The resort’s own wording.
Hours 16:30 to 18:00 our inference source our inference source
Lifts closed at night The resort publishes no list of lifts closed at night. source
Buying a ticket The 2026-27 ticket page sells no night ticket. What it does say: the 1-day ticket is valid 「18：00まで」 on the listed days, and the Tangram season pass is marked 「ナイター利用可能」. It says nothing about where or when evening tickets are sold.
Proof to bring The resort publishes no proof requirement.
Night ticket Lift Tickets →
The resort publishes no night page. These pages were read instead: source 1source 2source 3source 4source 5source 6
Getting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
2 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Hokuriku Shinkansen (Hakutaka) to Iiyama + Nagaden bus: Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 105 min) — Iiyama Station — (Iiyama Sta.–Madarao Kogen–Tangram Line, 30 min) — Tangram Ski Circus
- Direct snow shuttle from Narita/Haneda: Narita/Haneda Airport — (Nagano Snow Shuttle (JHN Travel), 360 min) — Tangram Ski Circus
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“I'll go to the very edge of the course. Bangtan Line Since coming to Madarao, I've been able to turn while putting my hands on the ground for the first time! When I uploaded it to social media, I was shocked to hear someone say, "This is no good because you're just touching your hands!" That may be true, but I'm happy to be able to do things I couldn't do before.”
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“I came to the ski slope First, climb on the 3rd quad lift. Slide on the Heartland Line The snow quality is better than I expected, and it's slippery. There are only so many people, and the course is wide enough.”
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“なんだこりゃ。 気を取り直して滑走開始です。 行くぜ、行くぜ、行くぜ。 まずは第からのジグザグラインを滑ります。雪室はどうでしょうか? ヤッホー。最高 じゃない。 高が少ないせいでまいですね。天気がいいのが救いです。怪我に木をつけて遊んでいきましょう。 しかしこのヘアピンカーブイニシャルを彷彿とさせます。このままリフト乗り場まで行きます。”
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“コースもあります この日はオープンしていたももダウンヒル をすべてきました スプレ上げて前が見えなくなって木に衝突 会うことないようにしてくださいね 絶対に一気には勝てません またこの日は平日ということもありまだ タイミングはよかったのかあまりお客さん が多くなく 終始パウダーを堪能”
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“冷やし少しというかあのねサイド カントリーのブドウ 沢かな ぶどう棚かな葡萄酒コース開いてたんで そちらの方に行こうと思います場所として はこの 第5クワッドリフトのところから 向こうの方向の方アプローチしていって 途中からね落ちる感じですねよし”
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“ジグザグラインがい。 ジグザグラインじゃあジグザグ右あっちや。ジグザだから気をつけてね。 ジグザ 急ブレーキかけないと曲がれないかもしれないから頑張って わかんない。 [音楽]”