Nakayama

Landing hill, inrun and judge’s tower of the K68 ski jump
at Nakayama Touge in May 2009: © Satoshi Futaki

Nakayama Touge:

K-Point: 68 m

Year of construction: 1968

Further jumps: K35

Plastic matting: no

History:

In 1968 two ski jumping hills were constructed at Nakayama Pass (“Touge”) near Sapporo on Hokkaido on more than 800 m above sea level. The K35 which was mainly used for junior’s practising is located directly at Nakayama Touge Ski Resort, while the K68 is situated about 1 km below. There the Japanese winter ski jumping season had been opened in the years 1968 to ’70 and the national team held several training camps there. The last official competition on K68 was organized on 1979-12-24, whereby Yataro Watase jumped the longest distance of 66 m. In 1980’s the ski jumping hills were abandoned since the K68 was two steep and dangerous, the preparation of the jumps was very difficult due to high snow levels and the location of the jumps was altogether to far from nowhere.

The K36 in May 2008 and 1971:

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