Rusutsu snow report & forecast, lift queues, ski-in/out hotels

Ratings

❄️ Snow

2.1

⛰️ Terrain

2.9

🚠 Lifts

6.9

⏱️ Queues

8.2

💸 Value

3.4

🍻 Après

1.7

✈️ Access

6.7

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude	400–994 m
Vertical drop	594 m
Pistes advertised	42 km
Pistes mapped on OSM	37.3 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	16 · 56% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	¥12,500
Passes	none
Avg snowfall (mid)	2.1 m / season
Nearest airport	CTS · 100 min

Brochure vs map. Rusutsu advertises 42 km. OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 37.3 km of piste centrelines. Brochure and map roughly agree.

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h

0 cm

Fresh 72 h

8 cm

Next 7 days

2 cm

Snow depth top (model)

0 cm

Now at 844 m

🌦️ 4°

Now at 400 m

7°

Gusts at top

31 km/h

Freezing level

1,640 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today

🌦️

·

-5° / 4°

💨 42

Fri

🌦️

·

2° / 11°

💨 41

Sat

🌦️

·

-2° / 8°

💨 46

Sun

🌨️

2 cm

-4° / 0°

💨 68

Mon

☁️

·

-3° / 4°

💨 25

Tue

☁️

·

-2° / 3°

💨 37

Wed

⛅

·

-5° / 3°

💨 48

Thu

☁️

·

-5° / 5°

💨 21

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 844 m (summit) and 400 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 697 m

Avg snowfall / season

2.1 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

1

Snowy days

62

Avg temp at base

-2°

Average snowfall by month · best: Jan

Nov

13

Dec

55

Jan

56

Feb

47

Mar

35

Apr

6

By season: 2022/23: 2.1 m · 1 powder days2023/24: 2.3 m · 1 powder days2024/25: 2.0 m · 0 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Dec	55 cm	~1.4 min	~1.8 min	SWEET SPOT
Jan	56 cm	~1.8 min	~2.4 min
Feb	47 cm	~1.8 min	~2.4 min
Mar	35 cm	~1.3 min	~1 min

Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).

Lift queues

Closed until Nov 29. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:

SIMULATION Average wait ~3 min, worst 4 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🚠 ウエストゴンドラ

Gondola · 1,028 m

4 minpredicted

🚠 イーストゴンドラ１号線

Gondola · 1,629 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 タワーペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,179 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 ウエスト第２クワッド

Chairlift · 4-seater · 868 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 ウエスト第１クワッド

Chairlift · 4-seater · 604 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 アクロス第１ペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 127 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 イゾラ第１クワッド

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,665 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 イゾラ第５ペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 484 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 ウエストタイガーペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 475 m

2 minpredicted

🚠 イーストゴンドラ２号線

Gondola · 6-seater · 2,000 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 イースト第１ペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 710 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 イゾラ第２クワッド

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,353 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 イーストクワッド

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,355 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 アクロス第２ペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 483 m

2 minpredicted

🚠 イゾラゴンドラ

Gondola · 2,792 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 イースト第２ペアリフト

Chairlift · 2-seater · 753 m

2 minpredicted

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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16h

Mon 15

Tue 16

Wed 17

Thu 18

Fri 19

Sat 20

Sun 21

Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.

How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 9 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

8.9

ルスツリゾートホテル ★★★★★

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to ウエスト第１クワッド ⛷️ piste 118 m

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8.3

The Vale Rusutsu

Hotel 🚶 ~3 min to ウエスト第１クワッド ⛷️ piste 158 m

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7.8

ウェスティンルスツリゾート

Hotel 🚶 ~4 min to タワーペアリフト ⛷️ piste 576 m

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7.3

Rusutsu Lodges ★★

Hotel 🚶 ~5 min to ウエスト第２クワッド ⛷️ piste 303 m

Book

7.3

ドライブイン池田

Guesthouse 🚶 ~5 min to ウエストゴンドラ ⛷️ piste 327 m

Book

7.3

Pension Lilla Huset

Guesthouse 🚶 ~5 min to イーストゴンドラ１号線 ⛷️ piste 295 m

Book

6.7

ペンションやまだ

Hotel 🚶 ~6 min to ウエストゴンドラ ⛷️ piste 345 m

Book

1.8

ホテルロマルス (Hotel Romulus)

Hotel 🚶 ~15 min to ウエスト第１クワッド ⛷️ piste 855 m

Book

1.0

Clydesdale Pension

Guesthouse 🚶 ~27 min to ウエスト第１クワッド ⛷️ piste 1.6 km

Book

Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

Pistes

Easy (blue / green)	9.8 km · 26%
Intermediate (red / blue)	17.4 km · 47%
Advanced (black)	6.6 km · 18%
Expert	2.8 km · 8%
Freeride / ski route	0.6 km · 2%

Longest named runs

イゾラグランドコース	3.0 km
ヘブンリー・ビュー・コース	2.6 km
フリコ沢コース	2.2 km
レインボーコース	2.2 km
イーストヴィヴァルディ	2.0 km
スティームボートB	1.9 km
イーストティーニュコース	1.8 km
フーボルコーズ	1.7 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

3

Clubs

0

Restaurants

7

Mountain huts

0

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: CTS, about 100 min away by road. Directions · Flights

The Rusutsu Resort is the largest resort in Hokkaidō, Japan, operated by Kamori Kankō. The resort is famous for its ski slopes but also offers year-round attractions including an amusement park and golf courses. Wikipedia