{"id":7117,"date":"2020-12-21T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bappashota.com\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2021-08-15T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:20:25","slug":"hiking-mt-rishiri-in-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bappashota.com\/en\/hiking-mt-rishiri-in-hokkaido\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Mt. Rishiri In Hokkaido | 100 Famous Japanese Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On our quest to climb all 100 famous Japanese mountains or \u65e5\u672c\u767e\u540d\u5c71 (Nihon Hyaku-meizan) as they are known in Japanese, we headed to Rishiri Island, a small island located on the north west side of Hokkaido to climb Mt. Rishiri.\u00a0<\/p>

Rishiri Island is commonly accessed by ferry from the town of Wakkanai. Before arriving in Wakkanai, we drove along the coastal road from Sapporo to Wakkanai. It\u2019s impossible to miss Mt. Rishiri while driving along this road since it\u2019s a huge cone-like volcano rising out of the sea of Japan and it dominates the entire view!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mt Rishiri is one of few mountains in the world where the sea can be seen in all directions from the summit. Before our hike, we were very happy to hear that there are also no bears or snakes found on Rishiri island since the climate is too harsh for them to survive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We visited Mt. Rishiri without a vehicle and we hiked up Mt. Rishiri on the Oshidomari Route and will share our experience of hiking Mt. Rishiri below. <\/span><\/p>

The information and photos we share in our <\/span>100 famous Japanese mountains <\/span><\/a>blog posts is the type of information we wish we could have known before doing the hikes ourselves!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Name: <\/strong>Mt. Rishiri (<\/span>\u5229\u5c3b\u5c71<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Hokkaido<\/p>

Height:<\/strong> 1721m<\/p>

Time:<\/strong> 10 Hours (6 hours up and 4 hours down)<\/p>

Difficulty Rating:<\/strong> 5\/5<\/p>

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