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Mt.Mokoto Trekking Trail

Mt.Mokoto Trekking Trail

Mt. Mokoto Trail Mokotoyama Trail You can see the sign of Mt. Mokoto trail entrance on the 102 line and follow the sign. You can reach the begging of Mt. Mokoto Trail which is from a mountain hut called Ginreisou, set at the 8th station of the moutain. Soft Water called Ginreisui springs out in front of the

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Sunayu

Sunayu

Onsen springs out! Many onsen sources exists in Kussharo Caldera. There are some spots in Eastern side of Lake Kussharo along 52 Line called “Kusshy road”. One of the spots is “Sunayu” where shop started in 1950. Later, Souvenir shop, restaurant, rental boat and etc started. Camp sit

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Kotan

Kotan

Kotan means vlillage in Ainu It is not well known that from when Japanese indigenous Ainu People started to live here because they did not have a word characteristics. Kussharo Kotan was recorded in the book in 1859 at the first place. This is a book of Kusuri Diary rewritten by Takeshiro Matsuura who was o

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Wakoto

Wakoto

Smallest Peninsula? If you think Arabia, Scandinavian, Shireoko…, Yes they are peninsula.  It is said that peninsula is a land which part of the land outwards to the water area. Teshikaga- town does not have sea but there is a peninsula. Lake Kussharo was formed by volcanic activity about thirty thous

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