{"id":76156,"date":"2008-10-22T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:10:00","slug":"climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/outdoor\/climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Mt. Okuhotaka from Kamikochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/hotmakam.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>Last weekend, I climbed Mt. Okuhotaka-dake, which is the third highest mountain in Japan (the first is Mt. Fuji, second is Mt. Kitadake in Yamanashi Prefecture.) at 3,190m.<br \/>\nI walked from <a href=\"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/contents03+index.id+8.htm\">Kamikochi<\/a> and enjoyed scarlet-tinged autumn leaves along the trail.<br \/>\nThe sky was perfectly clear and I could see most of the major mountains in Nagano, Gifu, and Toyama Prefectures, including Mt. Fuji (see the below photo).<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/Hotoku.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/kamikoy41.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" >There was a little snow on the trail to Mt. Okuhotaka. High mountains will be covered by snow within a few weeks.<br \/>\nYou can see beautiful colored leaves in places at 1000-2000m like Kamikochi, Norikura, Utsukushigahara, and Shirahone Hot Spring now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/outdoor\/climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/outdoor\/climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi\/\" data-text=\"Climbing Mt. Okuhotaka from Kamikochi\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I climbed Mt. 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You can see beautiful colored leaves in places at 1000-2000m like Kamikochi, Norikura, Utsukushigahara, and Shirahone Hot Spring now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/outdoor\/climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/outdoor\/climbing-mt-okuhotaka-from-kamikochi\/\" data-text=\"Climbing Mt. 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