Activities Mount Yoshino Sakura Festival Kim Bergström An annual festival and illumination event is held at the mountain to celebrate the beauty of around 30,000 cherry trees in bloom.
Outdoors Matsunoyama Onsen Royal Backcountry Rufus Starbuck A backcountry ski tour retracing a route taken by an Imperial party in the 50s leaving from Matsunoyama Onsen Ski Area, through the mountains, and then
24 Outdoors Takaosan Elena Lisina Many visitors come to Yakuoin temple to pray to Shinto and Buddhist mountain gods Tengu for good fortune.
Camping & Trekking Exploring around the Toyosawa dam Malcome Larcens so much to explore around it, I once came across a phallus shrine in a mountain... The mountains around that area are also a good place to go look for mountain
Activities Straddling the Skyline in Shibu Toge Pass Linka Wade It's still well worth the effort, though, to make the drive up the mountain... Route 292 snakes through the mountains and opens up to beautiful panoramic
17 Activities Plum Blossom Trail in Takao Cathy Cawood Climbing Mount Takao in autumn (or perhaps at cherry blossom time) is an
18 Activities Natural Waters of Japan Elena Lisina The lake is a freshwater one with some 200 mountain rivers flowing into... Rivers Most of Japan's rivers originate in the mountains
