Ski areas from Japan’s past 過去の日本のスキー場を懐かしむ

Kannabe Family

Kannabe Kogen
Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture

カンナベファミリースキー場　兵庫県豊岡市

Kannabe Family was a small ski area located in the Kannabe Kogen highland region of what was then Hidaka Town in the northern region of Hyogo Prefecture. In 2005, Hidaka town became part of the new Toyooka City. Kannabe Family had one single ski lift. There is a large hotel located at what used to be the base, and in recent years, it has offered a facility called Hotel Snow Park, complete with a moving escalator. That also now appears to have closed.

Further Information

  • There is a long history of skiing dating back to the 1920s in the highland area known as Kannabe Kogen 神鍋高原
    　
  • At one time, about 40 ski lifts were operating across 10 individual (and separate) ski areas in Kannabe Kogen
    　
  • It was a popular ski destination for people living in this region of western Japan
    　
  • In the 1990s, visitor numbers across the ski areas of the region rose to around 400,000 people in one season
    　
  • Kannabe Family was a small ski area with one 155m single ski lift
    　
  • In different guidebooks, the word Kannabe was written in katakana （カンナベ） or hiragana （かんなべ）.... but never in kanji
    　
  • A 1989 guidebook shows the price of one lift ticket as 100 yen per ride and 2800 yen for the day
    　
  • There were floodlights for night skiing at Kannabe Family
    　
  • The ski area disappeared from guidebooks in the early 1990s
    　
  • The Kannabe Onsen Blue Ridge Hotel 神鍋温泉 ブルーリッジホテル is currently open at the location
    　
  • Since the ski area closed, the hotel offered what it called Hotel Snow Park ホテルスノーパーク
    　
  • There was a moving escalator at the location, but the facility offered various 'playing in the snow' type activities, rather than skiing or snowboarding
    　
  • The official website notes that Hotel Snow Park is/was closed 'this season' - there is no date stamp on the message, and so it is unclear what season that is referring to
    　
  • In 2024, three ski areas in the Kannabe Kogen remain operating (links to current information on SnowJapan):

    Manba  万場スキー場
    Oku Kannabe  奥神鍋スキー場
    Up Kannabe  アップかんなべスキー場 (known as Kannabeyama 神鍋山スキー場 until around 1990)
    　
  • The seven ski areas from the past that are now closed are:

    Alpenrose アルペンローズスキー場 [more information]
    Kannabe Family     カンナベファミリースキー場 [this listing]
    Kita Kannabe     北神鍋スキー場 [more information]
    Nashiki Kogen     名色高原スキー場 [more information]
    Ookayama     大岡山スキー場 [more information]
    Sasano-o     ささの尾ゲレンデ [more information]
    Yamamiya     山宮スキー場 [more information]
    　
  • Note: One guidebook mentions another 'very small ski area' with one short (single?) ski lift called 蘇武口スキー場, said to be close to the entrance of Manba Ski Area. Another guidebook describes 蘇武口 as being a part of Manba Ski Area
    　
  • No further details about 蘇武口 can currently be found, and it remains something of a mystery - including how to pronounce the name (maybe Sobuguchi)

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  • About 300m off Route 482, to the west of central Toyooka City and north-west of central Yabu City in Hyogo Prefecture

  • About 11.5km from the Hidaka Kannabe Kogen IC exit of the Kitakinki Toyooka Expressway

  • About 12.5km from Ebara Station on the Sanin Honsen line

  • 北近畿豊岡自動車道　日高神鍋高原ICから的11.5km

  • 山陰本線　江原駅から的12.5km

This page was created in May 2025
Last updated on 8th July 2025
2025年5月 作成 　2025年7月8日 更新