Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama Mountain
The landform the resort sits on: the shape of the hill beyond the pistes, how steep it gets, and where it stands among the mountains on JapowDB.
Broadly one hillside, leaning to the south-east.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
450 m, more than 3 of the 34 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
焼額山 (Yakebitai-yama) 2,011 m
- Landform
- Yakebitai is a pyroclastic cone, and one of the tidiest examples of the form in Shiga Kogen. The lifts finish a few metres short of the summit, close enough that you ski the cone itself.
- Rock
- Andesite lava and pyroclastic rock at the top, late Pleistocene, which is the cone itself. The lower mountain is older non-marine sediment. The cone was built on top of that.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-08-12
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces south-east.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the south-east.
02
How steep it gets
Its steepest pitch measures 27.5°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 16 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
18.4° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 7.1° to 20.2°.
Half of them are gentler than 9.9°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 9 of the 34 mountains here that carry pitch data.
04
What grows on it
This mountain has both, in separate patches. The deciduous stands drop their leaves and open up for the winter; the conifer stands stay closed.
Read off the national vegetation survey (2024 edition), from fieldwork in 2013.
The forest on this mountain, in detail