In Japan, before you climb tall mountains like that, you must submit a climbing plan. There is also a course to the Togakushi Ridge's tallest peak, Mt. Togakushi starts from Togakushi Shrine's Okusha, goes up 1904m high, and returns you around the farm in the campground. Kenashiyama, you can gaze out over Togakushi and the northern Japanese alps. Depending on the season different wild flowers and grasses bloom throughout the Togakushi ski resort's trekking course. Kenashiyama is 1549 meters high and the climbing course takes about 3 and a half hours. Togakushi to Nishidake, so climbing this ridge is meant for experts. The Togakushi mountain range is split up into 3 areas: the Mt. HP: togakushi-jinja.jp/shrine/index.html (Japanese Only)Īddress: Togakushi, Nagano-shi, Nagano-ken (there are 5 shrines dotted around the area) ( Google Map) 4. Togakushi Soba You have to walk down a 1.9km road that is completely surrounded by trees to get there, and it feels very stately and solemn. Out of all the shrines there, the one that you should definitely visit is the Okusha. During the Edo Period, Tokugawa Ieyasu received great care when he went to solicit there.
It became a place where mountaineering ascetics came to train their mind and body. That door landed in the Togakushi mountain range, and gave the mountains and the shrine its name - Togakushi means "hiding door". It's said that Amaterasu, the sun goddess, hid herself in a cave, and this shrine worships the deity that threw away the door to the cave where she was hiding to let the sun back out. There are five shrines: the Okusha (upper shrine), Chusha (middle shrine), Hokosha, Hinomikosha, and Kuzuryusha.
It's said that Togakushi Shrine was built more than 2000 years ago.
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