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.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
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.
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°.
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