Flying sites

Take-off – Hakuba -Happo One

Direction: NNEESESSWWNW
Coordinates: 36.6974, 137.8160
Altitude: 1395 m
Region: Nagano, JP
Landing: 2.1 km from the take-offView on map ↗

Take-off description

Different TO's available: coordinates given for 'Gondola TO': just outside first section of gondola. - HG-TO: by top of second section - competition TO (PG) (> see pix)

Getting there

By train: - from Tokyo (Shinjuku) (dct) trains to Hakuba; - from Osaka via Nagano - Matsumoto From Hakuba Station by taxi to LZ or pre-arrange pick-up. to TO: by gondola

Rules / airspace

You have to go through a local PG school, in order to be allowed to fly here (as in most of JPN flight areas!) - http://www.x-stage.co.jp/ELS/pg/ - http://www.geocities.jp/skyblue_pgs/ Visitor Fee: 2600¥/day + 860¥/gondolatrip

Comments

very interesting flight area, which often holds competitions, ie Pre-PWC 2008

Take-off parkingView on map ↗