Yuzawa Kogen Overview
湯沢高原スキー場Yuzawa Kogen is a compact ski resort in Yuzawa, Niigata, reached by one of the world's largest ropeways, a 166-passenger cabin that rises directly from Yuzawa Onsen town to a plateau area around 1,000 m in about seven minutes. Its eight courses span roughly 370 m to 1,170 m and link at the top to GALA Yuzawa as part of the Yuzawa Snow Link common-pass area, with a season running from mid-December to early April.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Gondola access
- Terrain
- Beginner-friendly
- 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 lean late: close to 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 Yuzawa. The same station validates GALA Yuzawa, Kandatsu Snow Resort, Maiko Snow Resort and Naeba Ski 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 3,243 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 6.0° to 18.2°.
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- Shinkansen + walk (via Tokyo): board:Tokyo Station — Tokyo Station — (Jōetsu Shinkansen, 78 min) — Echigo-Yuzawa Station — Yuzawa Kogen Ski Resort
- Monorail + shinkansen + walk (via Haneda): Tokyo Haneda Airport — (Tokyo Monorail, 15 min) — Hamamatsucho — (Yamanote Line, 10 min) — Tokyo Station — (Jōetsu Shinkansen, 78 min) — Echigo-Yuzawa Station — Yuzawa Kogen Ski Resort
- Narita Express + shinkansen + walk (via Narita): Narita Airport — (Narita Express (N'EX), 53 min) — Tokyo Station — (Jōetsu Shinkansen, 78 min) — Echigo-Yuzawa Station — Yuzawa Kogen Ski Resort
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
5 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“ます次はパノラマコースですきっと今日のような日のためにあるのでしょうなだらかな感謝面の細道が続くぜただコンディション次第だけど上級車も高速で突っ込んできづらいから初心者やちょっと滑れるようになったお子様の練習には良いコースかも”
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“もう9人ぐらいすでに滑っていましたが青い消しコースも良きシャウダーです。コースが狭いのでパウダーの時は5人も滑ってしまったら終了でしたが、圧だったらまだまだ美味しいですね。こちらはまだ雪の量も十分のようです。”
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“湯沢高原スキー場スズランコース膝パウファーストトラックで優勝。やりました。底好きなしパウダーです。湯沢高原大正解ありがとうございます。ガリってるところ踏まなかったし、神ダより明らかに良かったドパウです。”
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“こちらはコスモスコースですがそこで地球がこんにちはしてる。寄せるほどの雪もないのでしょうね。やっぱりオープンした割には大ピンチ。湯沢高原に行こうと思ってる人は新しい板で来るのはやめた方がいい。”
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“ねまずは上級下連での青い消しコースとはいえ石打ちの山頂コースと同程度か湯沢高原スキー場の特色としては上級or初球コースというピーキーさある意味湯沢パークと同じですが”