Greetings from Nagano! Home Page

Lake Nojiri at Sunset
Photo by Shuichi Fujita (1994)

This is the informal, unofficial web by the volunteers of the IT teams supporting the 18th Winter Olympic Games to be held in Nagano, Japan, on February 7-22, 1998, and the 8th Paralympic Winter Games on March 5-14. It is intended for communicating our weekday and weekend activities among ourselves and to our friends worldwide, in a casual and non-bureaucratic manner.

Non-Sport Venues

• Main Accreditation Center (MAC) at Aquapal, Nagano
• International Broadcasting Center (IBC)
• Main Press Center (MPC)
• Media Villages at Asahi and Yanagimachi, Nagano
• Olympic Villages in Nagano and Karuizawa
• IOC Hotels: the Kokusai 21 and the Mitsui Garden Hotel
• Opening & Closing Ceremonies Stadium
• Awarding Ceremonies Site (Central Square on Chuo-dori)

• Paralympic Village in Nagano

Sport Venues

• Curling at Karuizawa
• Ice Hockey at Big Hat, Nagano
• Speed Skating at M-Wave, Nagano
• Ski Jumping at Hakuba
• Snowboard - Freestyle at Iizuna, Nagano

• Ice Sledge Speed Racing & Hockey at M-Wave, Nagano

Reviewer's Guides

• The Reviewer's Guide to the Nagano Olympic Information Systems
• The Reviewer's Guide to the Nagano Paralympic Information Systems

Links to Other Webs

• See here for links to Olympic and Paralympic Webs in English

• See here for Links to Olympic and Paralympic Webs in Japanese

Volunteers are needed who can:

• Summarize the stories of each venue
• Better scan and process image files
• Write HTML documents

Please contact the owner of this web shown below. See the Rules.

Preparations Prior to August, 1997

• Results Team
• Info'98 Team
• Games Management Team
• WOTT Team
• Supporting the NOCs and IOC (Lausanne, Monaco, etc.)

• ICPG: Ski Jumping at Hakuba