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Nozawa Onsen
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Mukobayashi:
| Hill Size: | HS 92 |
| K-Point: | 90 m |
  Hill record: |
97.0 m (Masahiro Akimoto , 1984-03-29) |
| Take-off angle: | 10.5° |
| Landing angle: | 36° |
| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 36.916121, 138.449714 ✔ 
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| Hill Size: | HS 61 |
| K-Point: | 55 m |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Coordinates: | 36.916572, 138.449580 ✔
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| K-Point: | 30 m |
| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 36.916836, 138.449335 ✔
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| Further jumps: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1969 |
| Status: | out of order |
| Coordinates: | 36.916121, 138.449714 ✔
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History:
Nozawa Onsen – Mukobayashi is a ski jumping complex located on the Mukobayashi slope in one of Japan’s oldest and most distinguished winter sports resorts. Skiing first appeared in Nozawa at the end of the 19th century, and as early as 1912 the first public skiing demonstration was held on the Mukobayashi slope. In 1922 the first ski jump was recorded, and in the mid-1920s the first permanent ski jumps were built on Mount Oinusan and in the Hikage valley. In 1929 these facilities were rebuilt and used for competitions featuring Norwegian jumpers, making Nozawa one of the pioneering Japanese centres of international ski jumping.
The development of the present-day complex on the Mukobayashi slope began in 1969 with the construction of a 40-metre jump, followed two years later by a larger 70-metre hill. The 1970s were a period of intensive modernisation: a service building for the ski jump was erected, a ski museum was opened, and in 1977 Japan’s first Astro-turf ski jump, enabling summer competitions, was built in Nozawa. One year later the first official summer ski jumping event on plastic, approved by the Ski Association of Japan, was held here. In the following years the complex was expanded with smaller training hills, including a 20-metre jump, strengthening Nozawa’s status as an important national training centre.
The main hill of the complex now features K90 and HS 92 parameters. Its record is 97 metres, set on 29 March 1984 by Masahiro Akimoto – one of Japan’s most accomplished ski jumpers of the 1980s, a multiple World Cup winner and Olympian from Lake Placid. The complex also includes smaller K55 and K30 hills, two of which are equipped with plastic surfaces allowing year-round training.
Nozawa Onsen has hosted top-level national competitions many times. In 1932, 1948 and 1957 the Japanese National Ski Jumping Championships were held here, won by the best athletes of their era. The Mukobayashi hill also became the venue for international Nordic combined competitions: in 2000 it hosted a World Cup event won by Finnish champion Samppa Lajunen, and in 2004 a Continental Cup competition. At the same time the facility has long served as a site for nationwide youth events, including the Winter Junior High School Championships, making it an important part of the Ski Association of Japan’s training infrastructure.
Although the Mukobayashi hills were not used for the ski jumping events of the 1998 Olympic Winter Games – Nozawa Onsen hosted the biathlon competitions while the ski jumping events were held in Hakuba – the complex played a significant role in the preparation of the Japanese national team and in the development of local talent. Today part of the facility is no longer in regular use, although the smaller hills are still occasionally used for school competitions and youth training. The Mukobayashi slope, with the silhouette of the jump visible from the ski runs, remains a distinctive element of the Nozawa Onsen landscape, a testament to more than a century of skiing tradition in the region and an important site in the history of Japanese winter sports.
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K55
K55 was used this winter for competitions, rest is out of order
street view
from street view the hills dont look the best you can check and decide if opreating or out of order but for me out of order