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Mt Ontake

Mt Ontake (御嶽山, ontake-san) is one of Japan's Hundred Famous Mountains on the border of Nagano and Gifu prefectures. At 3067m it is the 14th

It's like a red half-cylinder with sandbags for padding.As we come to right before the summit, there is a stone monument in memory of the 63 hikers who lost their lives, as well as some more sturdily-built concrete shelters behind it. As we finished our hike, it had begun raining (and even hailing a tiny bit too) but we managed to get a glimpse of Mt Ontake, visible underneath the clouds. Otherwise, this makes it pretty dicey as a day trip from Tokyo, so I would recommend either staying the night before, or look into taking an overnight bus from Shinjuku and arriving early in the morning at Kiso-Fukushima station.

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