Mount Yakebitai (焼額山, Yakebitai-yama) is a mountain located in Yamanouchi, Nagano, Japan. For the 1998 Winter Olympics, it hosted the alpine skiing slalom and snowboarding giant slalom events.
During the 1998 games, the mountain suffered a mild earthquake that registered 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale, but the skiing events continued.
References
- 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 194–7.
- "Poor skiing conditions nothing new to Whistler". 14 February 2010 Toronto Observer article accessed 20 September 2010.
- Shinmai.co.jp 1998 Winter Olympics venue profile.
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