Zaosancho – Jizo-san
地蔵山
Among the juhyō in the fog
View 8 photos- Distance
- 0.5km
- Ascent
- 112m
- 78 m of descent
- Walking time
- 0 h 11
- High point
- 1,736m
- low point 1,693 m
- Season
- Winter
- February 2012
Trees under the rime
Around Jizō-san, the trees of Zaō disappear beneath thick masses of snow and rime known as juhyō. Groups of them emerge from the fog. At the top of the ropeway, a thermometer in one of our photos reads about −14 °C that day.
Up close, the rime forms small stacked spikes, growing on one side of the branches. A hiker at the foot of the trees shows the scale of these great white columns.
Night at the pension
- Pension Zaō Furusato 蔵王ふる里
From our memories.
Map and profile
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