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gogonicetrip Says: Aso shrine one of the oldest and most prominent shrines in Japan, and was built in 281 before accession of the 1st Emperor Jinmu.The shrine is located in the center of the caldera of Mt. Aso, and the caldera is known as the largest in the world in which people are actually...
gogonicetrip Says: Kusasenrigahama is a beautiful prairie of 785,000 square m in the crater which spreads in northern part of Mt. Eboshi that is one of the Aso Five Mountains.
gogonicetrip Says: Sensui-kyo is a ravine located in a place with an altitude of 900m of the foot in Mt. Aso-takadake, where a dynamic view of the Aso valley and northern part of Aso Caldera can look down under their view. Along with Mt. Unzen and the Kirishima plateau, Sensui-kyo is one of...
gogonicetrip Says: Issingyo big cherry tree located at foot of Mt. Aso provide one of the most beautiful cherry blossoms in Kyushu.The overview of the tree;- Age : 400 years- Height : 35m- Branch tension: 26mBest season to see beautiful cherry blossoms is at the end of March to in the middle...
gogonicetrip Says: Mount Aso, is the largest active volcano in Japan, and is among the largest in the world.Its peak is 1592 m above sea level. Its caldera is 25 km across north to south and 18 km across east to west. The caldera has a circumference of around 120 km, although sources vary on...
Visit the Museum about volcanoes
LeDragon Says: There are many displays, including rocks, scales, types of volcanoes, evolution of the landscape in the surrounding, evolution of the agriculture.Sadly, most of it is in japanese, so you better get some japanese guide to help you. I haven't seen any at the Museum itself.
LeDragon Says: You will see the result of the last eruption ( well, I guess... ) : large areas without any plants, ash, all colors of rocks around the crater. A very impressive area.The volcanoe may be close when there are too much fumes ( sulfur, I would guess...). The tourist information...
Because of the volcanic soil,...
Pavlik_NL Says: Because of the volcanic soil, the bottom of Mt. Aso-caldera is very furtile. Therefor this is an ancient agricultural area with many farmhouses of various kinds. It can be very intresting (and rewarding) to visit some farmers on your walks around, however most of them only...
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Aso-no-fumoto: A pleasant family-run minshuku
Marywhotravels Says: We arrived in Aso late, but the minshuku host still came to the station to pick us up. She didn't speak any English, but perhaps that was for the best. The one member of our group who spoke Japanese said that she was basically on a non-stop grandmother-like rant during our...
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Favorite Dish: Kumamoto-cow. The people are proud of having something else then fish on their menu. Because the agricultural background of this area, one also has here more cattle then elsewhere in Japan. Traditional dish is a kind of gourmet of Kumamoto-cow.
Updated Jan 6, 2003
gogonicetrip Says: Namino Station is a JR Hohi Line train station located at the highest point (754m above sea level) in Kushu region.
Pavlik_NL Says: From Kumamoto to Beppu, a railroad stretches straight through the Mt.Aso-caldera and connects East and West. Roads are few, but (foot)paths are going in all directions.By foot you will discover the nicest places. There are few busservices but not with tight or even frequent...
gogonicetrip Says: Shirakawa Yoshimi-jinja is a shrine in the Shirakawa-suigen and was built in the 15th century as the Guardian deity of Shirakawa-suigen.[Back to Kumamoto-ken]
gogonicetrip Says: Shirakawa Suigen is the fountainhead of Shirakawa river that is one of the first class rivers of Japan.The quantity of water that spouts with the sand at the bottom of the pond is approximately 60 tons per minute.[Back to Kumamoto-ken]
Pavlik_NL Says: Closer to the rim on the East-side (and South West) side, there are almost totally hidden hot-springs. No massive tourism (they go to Beppu and Mt.Unsen) but lovely little secrets waiting to be discovered. Therefor hiking in and around Mt. Aso is highly recommended and will...
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Favorite thing: The visitorcentre in the middle of the Caldera-crater at the foot of the bundle of new volcanoes that rise slowly but steadily up in the enormous gab that their grandfather left. These volcanoes are very active and most of the time the climb to the crater-rim is prohibited (safe, but also sad for visitors that want to see real lava or firy fountains). However in the cratermouth are several camera's and the images of what they see can be followed in the visitor-centre.
Fondest memory: The views from the slopes of the new volcanoes towards the walls around that form the caldera-crater of the once unimaginable big volcano that exploded.
Written Oct 13, 2002
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Aso region has a dynamic natural beauty of Mt. Aso that is the largest active volcano in Japan and the largest caldera in the world.
Land of volcanoes around Mount Aso
The region around mount Aso is the largest caldera-crater in our world. Being inside you can barely believe that all this is actually a crater from what once was a huge volcano. The eruption, or...
Aso is likely the smallest japanese town I have been in. I would bet just a bit over 1 000 persons. Could you imagine that in Japan ? The landscape is impressive, with the large Caldera and the...
In this new year's holiday, we visited Beppu and Aso mountain. Before going to Aso,we encountered a lot of snow, inspite that this region is located in the south of Japan. For me and my wife, this was...
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