~5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Ten minutes up to 1,375m — the bay, the steam plumes rising from a hundred neighborhoods, and in spring ten thousand cherry trees below the cabin.
The ropeway climbs Mt. Tsurumi in about ten minutes and puts you 1,300 metres above a city that sits on a steaming hillside. On a clear day you see across to Shikoku. The mountain is an active volcano, which is also the reason there is a town below it.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~4h circuitCobalt ponds, blood-red pools, a geyser on a timer — seven volcanic "hells" you view, not bathe in.
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Eat · ~4h with the hellsRent a steam vent, lower your basket of seafood and vegetables into the earth, eat what the volcano cooked.
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Do · ~3hAttendants shovel volcanically heated sand over you until only your face is left thinking.
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