Tazawako Ski Resort Overview
たざわ湖スキー場Tazawako Ski Resort sits on the flanks of Mount Komagatake in Semboku City, Akita Prefecture, overlooking Japan's deepest lake. Cold air persists over it through the winter and the snowfall is consistent, which makes it one of Tohoku's most reliable powder resorts. Its 17 courses drop 608 metres and mix wide groomed runs with steeper tree-lined pitches.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Terrain park
- Snow
- Cold, dry snow
- Terrain
- Beginner-friendly Steep 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.
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.
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 gather at the end. More than half of them arrive in March. Across the 39 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Kakunodate.
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 9.3° to 21.2°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
6 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 → Tazawako (Shinkansen) + bus: Tokyo Station — (Akita Shinkansen (Komachi), 180 min) — Tazawako Station — (Ugo Kotsu, 30 min) — Tazawako Ski Resort
- Train + bus via Morioka & Tazawako Station: Iwate Hanamaki Airport — (Iwate Kenkotsu, 45 min) — Morioka Station — (秋田新幹線, 35 min) — Tazawako Station — (Ugo Kotsu, 30 min) — Tazawako Ski Resort
- Shared taxi (Akita Airportliner) via Akita Airport: Akita Airport — (Airport Liner (shared taxi), 130 min) — Tazawako Kogen (near resort)
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“え、今はですね、こちら黒森山コースのカに掘りますが、どうでしょう?このコース見てどう思います? なかなか急斜車斜面ですね。そうですね。シャドウ自体は最大シャドウ3°の救面コースになります。ま、右手で正置系の種目やりまして、左手今ちょっとネトロンが、え、刺さってるところがあると思いますが、ここでは拳目が行われます。”
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![[ゲレンデ]たざわ湖スキー場（秋田県仙北市）/[ski slope]Tazawako skiing ground, Senboku-city Akita-pref. — 黒森山コース](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UAP3-Ermu1Q/hqdefault.jpg)
“ベースエリアのいちばん北側のリフトは528mの黒森山ロマンスリフトです。名前のとおり黒森山の山頂へ向かうリフトで、そのリフト沿いのコースは上級の日圧雪コースとなっています。黒森山をさらに向こう側に降りると高速リフトのかもしかクワッドリフトに接続します。”
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“ユートピアコースター11コース面を覚えてないんですけど。個人的にここのコースが一番好きでしょ。1本目ほどバーもかたくなかった集丁度良い固されるところどころなんか落ち葉から何か落ちてるんですけどこのホースが一番まーたざーわーおスキー場である”
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“全日本スキー技術戦試験大会第63回目。え、この田スキー場でこれから決勝が始まります。え、黒森のゲレンデからお送りしますけども、さあ、ここは最大車と33°、ま、上の方は33°で徐々に、え、傾斜が少なくなっていくんですけども”
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“田沢湖といえばこちら黒森山コースですね。はい。こちらはだいぶ急です。急斜面に少しうりあるような感じのコースですね。タザ湖という大体30年前ぐらい確か、え、1997年の全日本技術戦で使われているスキー場なんですけど。”
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“水沢最高さ、おちゃんちょっと浮いてたよふわっと、取れてるかな取れ俺の肉眼では確認したんだけど軽く大降りしてました水さ最高うまくなったような気がするね。がすあっという間だね今日はここでいいねいいね”