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Hyakumeizan: Climbing Japan’s 100 Most Famous Mountains chronicles Ginger Vaughn as she climbs the 100 most famous mountains across Japan. If you are interested in hiking in Japan, the Hyakumeizan are a great way to travel the country and enjoys some great hiking and trekking in Japan with mountains of all heights and levels. Enjoy some great information including access to trailheads and closest train stations to these popular hikes. Ginger was one of the first foreign women to complete the Hyakumeizan.

Yama Girl Revival

Nearly a decade ago I became inspired to hike the “hyakumeizan,” Japan’s one-hundred most revered mountains. I had bagged 91 peak...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #86 Takatsuma-yam...

I left Tokyo with a few friends long before the sun came up and started on the trail around 8 a.m. Everyone was groggy from l...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #69 Mt. Aso

I get off the bus at Miyagi Station and begin my two-hour walk to the Asosan trailhead. I am well rested, my pack feels less heav...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #45 Fuji-san

“Bee-beep! Bee-beep!” It didn’t seem right the alarm was blaring in my ear at 2:30 in the morning, but that’s the standard wake-u...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #10 Iwaki-san

My thumb does the talking to the few cars that pass my way. I walk for almost an hour when a middle-aged man with a sleepy stubby...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #59 Akaishi-dake

After a great 10-hour sleep in the empty hut on Taka-dake, my internal clock woke me at 4:30 a.m. as usual. The caretaker of the ...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #25 Sobo-san

It was my fifth day and mountain number two in Kyushu. Hitching a ride from an onsen in Beppu was easy and, soon enough, I was on...

100 Famous Japanese Mountains: #12 Akadake

It was still mid-October, but the chill in the air made me wonder if sleeping in a tent was a good idea. When I arrived at the gy...

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