Mt Jeans Nasu
A gondola-served Tochigi resort opened in 1994 that ran its last day on 10 March 2024; its car park is now overflow parking for the animal park next door.
- Region
- Tochigi Prefecture
- Country
- Japan
- Status
- closed
- Year opened
- 1994
- Year closed
- 2024
- Reason for closure
- Declining visitor numbers and operational difficulties. The operator announced in December 2023 that 2023-24 would be the final season, and the resort closed on 10 March 2024.
History
Mt Jeans Nasu (マウントジーンズ那須スキー場) opened in December 1994 on the northern edge of Tochigi Prefecture, close to the Fukushima border in Nasu Town. It was a proper modern resort rather than a village hill: six lifts at its peak including an 1,845 m gondola and a quad, ten courses, a longest run of 2,500 m and a steepest pitch of 30 degrees, running from a 950 m base to a 1,450 m summit for 500 m of vertical, with terrain rated 30 per cent beginner, 50 per cent intermediate and 20 per cent advanced. In December 2023 the operator announced that the season then starting would be the last, citing falling visitor numbers, and the resort closed on 10 March 2024 after thirty seasons. The site now carries no-entry signs and the ski area car park has been given over to overflow parking for the neighbouring Nasu Animal Kingdom. Course names are not compiled in accessible sources; the coordinates mark the gondola line as mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | Gondola | 1,845 m gondola, the main lift | |
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift - Quad | 992 m | |
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift - Double | 1,127 m | |
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift - Double | 561 m | |
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift - Double | 360 m | |
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift - Double | 267 m |
Sources and further reading
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Location
37.1267, 140.0138