Mount Yamamoto

What it is

• A 336.6-meter mountain located three kilometers south of central Ojiya City.
• Home to a municipal cattle ranch and the Klein Garten farm park.
• Site of the JR Shinano River Power Station and thirty lodging facilities.
• A former ski resort location that now serves as a public recreation area.

What to see

• Summit observatory offering views of the Echigo Sanzan mountains and Shinano River.
• Extensive rapeseed fields that bloom on the mountain slopes.
• A memorial monument and a poetry monument located at the summit.
• The Yamamoto Mountain Tunnel where the Kan-etsu Expressway passes through.

When to go

• Springtime is ideal to visit the Klein Garten farm park which opened in 2007.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.