“for a different kind of experience”
Nokogiri Yama is like natural museum famous for the unique shaped rocks or beautiful places. The ropeway was installed here with the investment cost of about 200million Yen (say US$ 1.85million) in 1962. Since then, this ropeway has been regularly used by people who have visited here at all seasons. The oblique distance is 680 meters (say 2200 feet) between the stations at the foot and top of the mountain, and the car is served every five minutes. In the building at the top of mountain, there are an observation restaurant, free resting room, telescopes, souvenirs corner, game for children ets. Also, the historical materials on the stone cutting in this mountain is exhibited there. On the other hand, there is a Japanese temple called Nihonji at the opposite side of the mountain. In the garden of this temple, you can see the greatest images of Buddha made of stone, which is the biggest in the Orient, one thousand and five hundred images of Buddha(1500 Rakan), etc. Also, you can enjoy one and half hour hiking between the station at the top and the garden(round trip), including walking around the garden.
Having seen a big carved stone, that's like a building that is a few stories high was awesome. For such a unique place, there were only local tourists which is quite puzzling.
It would be helpful to wear comfortable shoes if you're planning to come here. To get from one place to another takes more than 10 minutes of walking and climbing up the stairs.
For some reason, not many people seems to be aware of this very beautiful mountain spot just 3 hours away from downtown Tokyo. We went there on a day trip and it was pretty amazing. You take a ropeway up to the mountain and enter a sort of temple where you will see more than a thousand small buddhas, a giant buddha and a huge Kannon carved into the rocky mountain.
You can then walk a few minutes more and reach the view deck area, where a portion juts a few meters out of the mountain that will certainly give you that chilling experience of like being on a ledge a few hundred feet up in the sky.
The hiking and all the stairs might be a bit too much for elders and or younger kids but otherwise its freaking awesome!
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Nokogiri Yama (Mountain of Sawteeth)
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