Bodaira Ski Area Closed

Bodaira Ski Area was a beginners' slope at Bodaira, between Kutsuuchi Chaya and Junisawa at the entrance to Shiga Kogen, Nagano. Opened in the early Showa era, it was one of the first ski grounds of Shiga Kogen and had no lifts, using the gentle slope below today's Kutsuuchi Meisui Park on Route 292. From 1948 the Leonard course linked it with Asahiyama above and Kanbayashi below. That course was abolished in 1961, and because the slope lay on the planned route of the Shiga-Kusatsu road, the ski area closed in the mid-1960s.