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tinou
Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:54 am

Re: Akan National Park - Mashu, Kawayu Onsen [E]
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Another way of enjoying the views around Lake Mashuu is to hike to the top of Mashuu-dake, the volcanic peak which overlooks Lake Mashuu and is considered somewhat as the Observation Platform no2 (第2展望台).

Access: The trail entrance is just nearby the Observation Platform no1. You can access the Observation Platform no1 by bus from Teshigaka, or Kawayu onsen. 

The hike: you need roughly 2 hours there and 2 hours back. The path just follow the ridge of the caldera that constitutes Lake Mashuu. It just get quite steep on the 300 hundred last meters. 

I wasn't lucky the day I hiked it because the Lake was really foggy:

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9728/35128085ak4.jpg

Magnificient view from the summit:  :D 

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2598/57308302yt3.jpg

Hopefully I got lucky on the next day:  :wink: 

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7308/94426037zn7.jpg