Here is a top 20th ranking of the number of visitors in the ski areas in the 2022-23 winter season. More and more people came back after the pandemics. (*The numbers below show the number of the visitors in each ski areas)
1st Shiga Kogen (Nagano) 865,000 people
2nd Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47 (Nagano) 434,832 people
3rn Joetsu Kokusai (Niigata) 418,500 people
4rd Nozawa Onsen (Nagano) 376,768 people
5th Naeba (Niigata) 360,910 people
6th Hakuba Happo-one (Nagano) 313,307 people
7th Karuizawa Prince Hotel (Nagano) 294,000 people
8th Sapporo Teine (Hokkaido) 290,000 people
9th Takasu (Gufu) 278,157 people
10th Iwappara (Niigata) 275,200 people
11th Tsugaike Kogen (Nagano) 274,000 people, 12th Maiko 273,000 people, 13th Gransnow Okuibuki 260,293 people, 14th Kagura 260,200 people, 15th Sugadaira Kogen 256,000 people, 16th GALA Yuzawa 255,620 people, 17th Zao Onsen 253,000 people, 18th Hunter Mountain Shiobara 250,455 people, 19th Kandatsu 244,220 people, 20th Ishiuchi Maruyama 239,000 people
*The total number of visitors in both Takasu & Dynaland was 470,483 people. This is the second in Japan.
*Some ski areas including Rusutsu didn’t announce the number of the visitors.