Mountain views山の絶景
Take a ropeway to a view you would otherwise climb for.
Take a ropeway to a view you would otherwise climb for.
Almost three quarters of this country is mountain, and the good news for most visitors is that the best views are reached by road, rail, ropeway and funicular — built for people who arrive in ordinary shoes.
The places below are viewpoints, not climbs. If you want a mountain view and not a mountain day, all of these work.
1. Cloud builds through the morning almost everywhere,
and the clearest hour is the first one.
2. Ropeways stop for wind, roads close for snow, and the
decision is made locally on the day.
All of these are reached by vehicle or ropeway. Each links to its prefecture.
From the lakes on the Yamanashi side or the coast on the Shizuoka side. Clearest in winter, before 09:00.
The rim of the Aso caldera, a few steps from the car park. Sea of cloud in autumn.
Across three-thousand-metre mountains by bus and ropeway. Snow walls in April and May.
A high valley of clear river and birch forest, level walking, no private cars.
A broad volcano above the Japan Sea, with beech forest on its lower slopes.
A ropeway over a steaming volcanic slope, and a lake with Mt. Fuji behind it.
A double-decker ropeway to a viewing deck among the Northern Alps.
An active volcano across a bay, reached by a ferry that runs all night.