Sightseeing in Izu: Mount Omuro (大室山)
Monday, March 13, 2017
The entrance to the Omuro chair lift
Mt. Omuro is about 580m high and was formed by a volcanic eruption about 4,000 years ago. In order to get to the volcano's summit you have to take a chair lift, a trip that costs 500 yen (/250 yen for children). You can buy the ticket at the bottom of the chair lift, and the price includes the return trip as well.
Once you're at the top you are free to stroll around the volcano's crater and enjoy your surroundings. The diameter of the crater is approximately 300 meters, and you can circle the crater in 15-30 minutes.
Above: The crater of Mt. Omuro with Mt. Fuji in the background
A road going down to the crater of the volcano where there is an archery range
From the summit you can enjoy a 360 degrees view of your surroundings. If you want more action than just strolling around the crater you can also take the opportunity to try out archery for 1,000 yen/hour in the archery range down in the crater of the volcano, and there are also paragliding schools that offer paragliding trips to Mt. Omuro.
View of Izu. To the left
300 year old Jizo statues - 五智如来地蔵尊
八ヶ岳地蔵尊
If you want to bring home a souvenir from Mt. Omuro you can find a couple of stores both at the entrance to the chair lift and also on the summit of the volcano. At one of the souvenir shops by the bottom of the mountain they have a cute little store where they sell seasonal sweet manju (steamed yeast bun with filling) - sakura-manju during spring and momiji (leaf) manju during autumn.
Talking about sakura, by the foot of Mt. Omura you can also see blooming cherry trees through most of the spring in the Sakura-no-sato park, where you can find around 3,000 cherry trees of 37 varieties that bloom successively starting in September throughout the winter season until June of the following year.
-Anette
■ Basic Info
- ・Place: Mt. Omuro (大室山 ・ おおむろさん)
- ・Hours: 9:00 - 17:15 (October to mid March: 9:00 - 16:15)
- ・Homepage: http://omuroyama.com/ (Japanese only)
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