Guide to Mt. Kitadake Summit 3,193m

Mt. Kitadake 2 Day's Hike
My Itinerary:
Day 1:
Norogawa Hirogawara Information Center 1510m
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Suspension bridge crossing over the Norogawa River
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Hirogawara Sanso
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Junction Left - Okanbazawa River Trail
Junction right - Shirane Oike Goya
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Shirane Oike Goya / Shirane On-ike Pond
2230m
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Junction left - Futamata
Junction right - Kata-no-koya
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Junction right - Mt Kotaro
Junction left - Kata-no-koya
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Kata-no-koya 3000m
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Stay for one night at the tent and hike the following day early morning
Located in the South of Yamanashi Prefecture
These are collectively called "The Shirane-Sanzan" (Sanzan = 3 Mountains)
Mt. KITA-dake
Mt. AINO-dake
Mt. NOTORI-dake
Link:
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www.japan-guid...
Course for climbing the length of Shirane Sanzan which generally means Kitadake (3,193m), Ainodake (3,190), and Noutoridake (3,026m) of Akaishi Mountains in the Southern Alps.
Shinjuku Station - Kofu Station
21:25 - 23:35
Kofu Station - Hirogawara
1st bus - 4:30am - 6:30am (2hrs)
Bus fare Cooperation Fund
¥ 1,990 + ¥ 300(approx. 2 hours).
Limited Express Train: 1.5 hours
¥ 3,890
Local / Rapid Train: 2.5 hrs - 3 hrs
¥ 2,300 - ¥ 2,500
We took a bus from Shinjuku Station in the evening of Friday then we take a rest at Kofu Station after arriving. Most people sleep in the station with their sleeping bags to catch the earliest bus to Hirogawara at 4:30 in the morning.
Access
This course is located in the northern region of the Southern Japanese Alps. From Tokyo Station, take the JR Chuo Line to Shinjuku Station (approx. 15 minutes). From Shinjuku Station change to a Busta bus express and travel to Kofu Station
¥ 2,300 (approx. 2hrs ).
From Kofu Station, take a Yamanashi highway bus to Hirogawara
Bus fare Cooperation Fund
¥ 1,990 + ¥ 300(approx. 2 hours).
Links
Minami Alps NET
Kita-dake Kata-no-Koya
Hirogawara Information Center
Link:
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www.japan.trav...
From Hirogawara Bus Stop, walk along the road in the direction of the tourist information center. Cross the bridge and then continue to the trail until you find a junction point that forks the trail. Walk the left trail to Okanbasawa if you are planning to cut the hike and camp straight to Kitadake-sanso hut. But if you want to camp in Kata-no-koya like what we did in this video, take the trail on the right for Shirane oike hut.
Hirogawara Bus Stop - Shiraneoike Hut
2 hours - 3 hours
Shiraneoike Hut is a good place to eat lunch and to fill up you water bottle. From here, the trail becomes very steep and requires great amount of energy.
Shirane-oike goya
Link: thejapanalps.c...
Shiraneoike Hut - Kata no Koya
3hours - 4hours
Kata no Koya
Camping Fee: ¥3,500/person/night
Kata no koya
Link:
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From Kata no Koya, we woke up at 4:00AM and leave our tent for a while and got ready to continue the 1 hour hike to Kitadake summit and catch the sunrise. We spend an hour at the summit.
Kata no Koya - Kitadake Summit
1 hour
Kitadake 3,193m
Link:
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www.japan-guid...
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Back to Hirogawara Information Center
Then after an hour on the summit we decide to go back to Kata-no-koya to unpitched our tent and start to descending toward to Hirogawara Information Center to catch the 2pm bus going to Kofu Station.
From kofu Station we leave at 4:30pm but due to the traffic we travel 5hrs and arrived at Shinjuku Station at 9:00pm.

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