Japan Tohoku guide - travel related information

Introduce many attractive places and culture in Tohoku Japan

The Bandai, mysterious multi-color lakes and erupted mountain view

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The Bandai (磐梯) is an attractive outdoor destination that offer hiking chance in summer and skiing in winter.

 

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Mount Bandai is center of this area and a volcano last erupted in 1886.

It caused mouontain shape change and created the pond dotted in highlands named Urabandai. Urabandai is also popular for autumn color viewing

 

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There exist over 100 ponds and lakes in the Bandai Highlands area.

Most fascinating is the Goshiki-numa (five-colored ponds). Volcanic material dissolving in the water use sunlight of changing the color of the water from deep green to white-blue and red-blue.

 

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This area is beautiful especially during the season that trees are covered with fresh green leaves, the leaves begin to change color in autumn.

 

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Further north area, Mount Azuma, a volcanic mountain range with multiple peaks, including Azuma-Kofuji perfect shaped miniture version of Mount Fuji

 

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we will explain the attractive point of summer and winter in Bandai.

 

(Access) Firstly take a train of JR Ban'etsu-saisen Line from Koriyama to Inawashiro Station for 40min. Then take a bus to Onogawa-ko Iriguchi for 30 min.

 

(Last visit) October/2017