Tsugaike Mountain 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 east-south-east.
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
904 m, more than 27 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
白馬乗鞍岳 (Hakuba Norikura-dake)
- Landform
- The lower flank of a mountain whose gentleness stands out even among the steep Hakuba peaks. The lifts stop at 1,704 m and the summit is 2,469 m, so what you ski is the bottom third of something very large and very even.
- Rock
- Andesite and basaltic andesite lava with its own debris at the top, middle Pleistocene. That volcanic ground is what makes the upper mountain so even. The lower mountain is terrace deposits off the valley.
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 south-east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the south-east.
02
How steep it gets
That steep ground sits high on the mountain.
Its steepest pitch measures 29.0°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 3 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
14.4° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 5.4° to 17.6°.
Half of them are gentler than 8.7°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 7 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 2017.
The forest on this mountain, in detail