Mount Kasumizawa

What it is

• A 2,646-meter mountain located within the Chubu Sangaku National Park in Matsumoto City.
• One of the 200 Famous Japanese Mountains featuring diverse geology like sandstone and granite.
• A historic climbing site famously summited by Walter Weston via Hachiemon-zawa in 1913.
• The site of the Tokugo Pass Hut which was originally established in 1923.

What to see

• The Sanbon-yari rock formation standing at the mountain summit.
• The old Tokugo Pass Hut which is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
• A second-class triangulation point installed at the highest peak.
• The Tokugo Pass route which has been officially open to hikers since 1984.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.