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Fushimi Inari Shrine Esoteric scenery waiting to be release.
Must-see Mountains The most beautiful mountain in Japan, loved by people from ancient times.
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Must-see Mountains
The most beautiful mountain in Japan, loved by people from ancient times.
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Fushimi Inari Shrine Esoteric scenery waiting to be release.
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Kurama
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Daigoji
TABLE OF CONTENTS Mt. Fuji   6 Mount Mitake 8 Mount Takao 9 Kyoto 10 Daigoji 12 Kurama 15 Minoo Park 16 Mount Koya 18 Mount Yoshino 19
Credits Publisher YUGEN Editor Hansen Salim Chief - Editor Emanuel Pratalaharja Designer Kelvine Y Cover Image Kelvine Y
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FROM THE Editors
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Thank your for reading this magazine. hopefully this magazine will help you to travel the best place you have never seen before to a whole new world. Best travelling guides for you. Breathtaking scenery waiting for you. Changing scenery in every season. Its like a different photo at the same place. This magazine will show you the best place in Japan. Editor’s
Kelvine Yang
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Peter Nguyen
Must-See Mountain
Japan
Mountain Fuji
Mount fuji is an active volcano and the most tallest mountain in Japan with a height of 3.775 meters. It is located between Yamanashi and Shizuoka. It has the most visit by several hundred thousand people in July and August. Outside of that months, it is dangerous to hike the mountain.
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Climbing Equipment It is very important to bring a complete set and proper equipment. Some of the most important things to bring are listed below:
Ordinary Shoes
Money
Ordinary Clothes
Altitude Sickness
All people are recommend to use a hiking shoes all the time in order to protect feet from rocky land and to avoid slippery when the strong win goes up.
Bring a proper clothes and additional clothes to protect agains low temperatures and strong winds. The more you goes up to the summit, the colder the weather is. Bring a rain gear too. The mountain conditions can change quickly.
Flashlight
A flashlight or headlamp is highly recommended in any season, especially in night time in order to avoid accident.
Bring cash only to buy water, canned oxygen and use the toilet along the way. it is also important to bring emergency shelter incase of anything happen.
The human body requires some time to adjust to a sudden increase of altitude, in order to avoid the risk of headache, dizziness and nausea. Many people who climb Mount Fuji, suffer from altitude sickness.
Manners 1. Do not pick plants! 2. Do not bring home any stones! 3. Do not camp on the mountain!
Food
Its is important to bring enough food and water. There are few mountain huts along the way and they also offer various meals and drinks, however the prices is very expensive and changes according to the altitude.
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The Crowds
Mount Mitake
Climbing Mount Fuji is very popular not only among Japanese but also foreign tourists, who seem to make up more than a third of all hikers. The peak season for climbing Mount Fuji is during the school vacations which last from around July 20 to the end of August. The peak of the peak is reached during the Obon Week in mid August, when climbers literally have to stand in queues at some passages.
Mount Mitake is another popular hiking destination close by Tokyo. Located in the mountains of Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, it takes just two hours to reach from the city. Visitors can hike the trails through virtually unspoiled nature, stopping at a variety of waterfalls, small shrines, and peaks along the way.
While you may want to avoid the Obon Week, we believe that by avoiding the crowds in general, you would miss out one of the most interesting aspects of climbing Mount Fuji, which is the camaraderie and unique experience of ascending the mountain among hundreds of equally minded people from across the world. In order to encounter neither too large nor too small crowds, we recommend to climb Mount Fuji on a weekday in the first half of July before the start of the school vacations. The downside of a climb in early July is the weather, which tends to be somewhat more unstable than later in the season.
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Mount Takao Less than an hour from central Tokyo, Mount Takao is one of the closest nature spots to the city. Various trails lead up the mountain and beyond. The main trail is paved and passes through the Yakuoin temple grounds before reaching the summit which offers views of Mount Fuji on clear days. Mount Takao can be crowded, especially on weekends.
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Kyoto
Fushimi Inari Shrine Fushimi Inari Shrine is an important Shinto shrine in the south of Kyoto City. The shrine features thousands of vermillion torii gates that form tunnels along the network of trails leading from the shrine’s main buildings to the top of the sacred mountain behind.
Taken by Tom Bricker
Fushimi Inari Shrine is an important Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto. It is famous for its thousands of vermilion torii gates, which straddle a network of trails behind its main buildings. The trails lead into the wooded forest of the sacred Mount Inari, which stands at 233 meters and belongs to the shrine grounds. Fushimi Inari is the most important of several thousands of shrines dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice. Foxes are thought to be Inari’s messengers, resulting in many fox statues across the shrine grounds. Fushimi Inari Shrine has ancient origins, predating the capital’s move to Kyoto in 794.
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While the primary reason most foreign visitors come to Fushimi Inari Shrine is to explore the mountain trails, the shrine buildings themselves are also attractive and worth a visit. At the shrine’s entrance stands the Romon Gate, which was donated in 1589 by the famous leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Behind stands the shrine’s main building and various auxiliary buildings. At the very back of the shrine’s main grounds is the entrance to the torii gate covered hiking trail, which starts with two dense, parallel rows of gates called Senbon Torii. The torii gates along the entire trail are
Fushimi Inari Shrine is located just outside JR Inari Station, the second station from Kyoto Station along the JR Nara Line (5 minutes, 140 yen one way from Kyoto Station, not served by rapid trains). The shrine can also be reached in a short walk from Fushimi Inari Station along the Keihan Main Line.
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Daigoji is an important temple in southeastern Kyoto. The main temple complex lies at the base of a mountain, while the original temple grounds can be found near the summit and are reachable by a steep mountain trail through the forest. Those who separate themselves from the crowds and make the climb are rewarded by wooden halls set along the quiet, forested mountainside and panoramic views.
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Daigoji
Peter Nguyen
Daigoji Temple Daigoji is an important temple of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism and a designated world heritage site. The large temple complex stands southeast of central Kyoto and includes an entire mountainside. The main temple grounds are located at the base of the mountain and are connected via a hiking trail to several more temple buildings around the summit.
Upon entering the main temple grounds, visitors will first come across the Sanboin, the elegant former residence of the head priest, which was originally constructed in 1115. The current building, along with its outstanding landscape garden dates to 1598 when it was reconstructed and expanded for Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s famous cherry blossom viewing party held here. The building
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Kurama
Kurama is a rural town in the mountains of northern Kyoto, less than one hour from the city center. Kurama is best known for Kurama-dera Temple, which stands at the top of a steep, wooded mountainside. After making the 30-45 minute walk to the temple, visitors can continue on a hiking trail that leads up and over the mountain to Kibune in the neighboring valley.
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Lindsay Nafreniere
Minoo Park Minoo Park is a forested valley on the outskirts of Osaka, just north of the urban sprawl. Located just 30 minutes from the city center, the park is the closest spot to the city to see nature. During autumn it is one of the best places in the Kansai Region to see autumn colors in a natural setting, as opposed to fall foliage found at temples and gardens.
Minoo Park is a forested valley on the outskirts of Osaka, just north of the urban sprawl. During the fall, it is one of the best places in the Kansai Region to see the autumn colors in a natural setting, as opposed to the attractive fall foliage found at temples and gardens. The colors are usually best in the second half of November. Similar to Tokyo’s Mount Takao, Minoo Park is the closest spot to the busy metropolis of Osaka to find a spacious natural recreation area. The park can be reached in less than 30 minutes from the downtown Umeda area. Another similarity, Takao and Minoo were both given quasi-national park status in 1967 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Meiji Period (1867-1912).
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Minoo Park’s main hiking trail extends about three kilometers through a valley alongside the Minoo River. The trail begins near Hankyu Minoo Station and leads to the Minoo Waterfall. With a height of 33 meters, the waterfall is the park’s main natural attraction. The name Minoo Waterfall comes from the fall’s resemblance to winnowing, a traditional farming technique to separate grains from husks. The name was later applied to the area in general. The trail from the station to the waterfall does not have any dramatic inclines, is paved and should take most hikers about 45 minutes to walk. The first half of the trail passes by several shops, temples buildings and other facilities, while the later half is a bit steeper and surrounded by trees. Among the few temple buildings along the hiking trail, Ryuanji Temple is the most impressive. Located at about the midpoint between the train station and the waterfall, the temple is part of the Shugendo mountain worship religious sect and has a number of interesting buildings. During the fall season the shops alongside the path sell an interesting snack called momiji tempura: maple leaves deep fried in batter. The park also has a small insectarium and more extensive hiking trails, some of which lead to observation points and into the hills beyond the waterfall. From Umeda in central Osaka, take the Hankyu Takarazuka Line from Hankyu Umeda Station to Ishibashi Sation (15 minutes) and transfer to the Hankyu Minoo Line to Minoo Station. The entire one way trip takes about 25 minutes, costs 270 yen and is not covered by the Japan Rail Pass. There are frequent connections.
Guide Map
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Mount Koya Mount Koya has long been a popular pilgrimage site, and a network of pilgrimage trails connect the secluded mountain temple community to the outside world. The main Koyasan Choishi Michi trail is a 23.5 kilometer, 7 hour hike, but visitors can shorten the trek by accessing the trail from different points along the Nankai Koya Line.
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Mount Yoshino Mount Yoshino is a wooded temple town on the mountain slopes of Nara Prefecture. The country’s most famous cherry blossom spot, Yoshino’s mountain side is covered by over 30,000 cherry trees that usually bloom from early to mid April. Visitors can enjoy the trees along a small network of hiking trails that lead around the mountain. A more difficult pilgrimage trail to Mount Omine begins at Kinpusenji Temple.
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