Tazawako Ski Resort 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.

One hillside, and it falls away to the west.

That steep ground sits high on the mountain.

A pixel relief map of the ground around Tazawako Ski Resort, drawn from elevation data for the surveyed area, its ridges and valleys in eight tones of ink.
Elevation
578–1,186m
Vertical drop
608m
Served by lifts
596m
Faces
west
Steepest tenth
18.6°
Steepest pitch
31.1°

Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB

210 m1,124 m

608 m, more than 14 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.

The mountain

秋田駒ヶ岳 (Akita-Komagatake)

Above it
男女岳 (Onamedake) 1,637 m
Landform
An active composite volcano with two calderas and several cones sitting inside them. It last erupted in 1971. The lifts work the mid slope and stop at 1,186 m, about 450 m short of the top.
Rock
Andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris, late Pleistocene, and the same top to bottom. It is young volcanic ground the whole way.

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 west.

Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the west.

N E S W

02

How steep it gets

That steep ground sits high on the mountain.

Its steepest pitch measures 31.1°.

Its steepest tenth is steeper than 18 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.

18.6° the steepest tenth of runs

03

How varied it is

Its runs range from 9.3° to 21.2°.

9.3°21.2°

Half of them are gentler than 13.3°. Each mark is one run.

That spread is wider than 6 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 2010.

The forest on this mountain, in detail