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

Kamabuchi


Mori-no-koshi

Mamurogawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture

釜淵森の越スキー場 山形県真室川町

Kamabuchi Mori-no-koshi was a small ski area in the Kamabuchi neighbourhood of Mamurogawa Town in Yamagata Prefecture. This ski area has one rope tow lift and while it is not clear when it closed, the now overgrown slope has clearly not been used for quite a while.

Opened
開設
Unconfirmed
Closed
Unconfirmed
Base elevation
標高最低
About 150m

Photographs

Taken in October 2024
写真撮影:2024年10月

Further Information

  • Kamabuchi Mori-no-koshi Ski Area was located in the Kamabuchi neighbourhood within Mamurogawa Town
     
  • The location of the ski area was about 2km south of Kamabuchi Station, set back a short distance from the road
     
  • The ski slope appeared to have been serviced by one simple rope tow lift
     
  • The old slope is now overgrown, but a building remains near the base
     
  • It is not clear when the ski area opened but it was not visibile on aerial images from the mid-1970s
     
  • The slope appears in the aerial image above from 1985
     
  • It is also not clear when it closed, but it seems to have still been maintained in the early 2010s
     
  • There was still signage for the ski area by the side of the road (clearly showing the ski area name) in late 2024

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  • Located just off Prefecture Road 192 in the Kamabuchi neighbourhood of Mamurogawa Town

  • Just over 2km from Kamabuchi Station on the Ou Honsen line

  • 奥羽本線 釜淵駅から的2km



This page was created in July 2025
Last updated on 30th August 2025
2025年7月 作成 2025年8月30日 更新