Mt. Izuna 1,917m

In this golden week I enjoyed climbing Mt. Izuna located in Nagano city. It is called as 'Citizen's mountain'. Yes, I met a lot of people including some families with kids on the way although the weather was not so good.

Ito san, my friend, and me entered Ichino-torii and started to climb. We went up while finding and see the little famous 13 jizos along the path. At Suzuri-iwa, we heard some raindrops falling on leaves or grounds so we thought again and again if we could continue it or not. But finally we knew we were right to go on.

Finally we got to the summit but it was so cold and so strongly windy that we got back soon after we took photos with the summit sign pole. Back to the southern summit (it is several meters lower than the real summit) and the Izuna shrine, we had a brucn (early lunch) there. Many people came back there and did the same too.

All through the route we had mere chances to enjoy the view from the top because of the deep fog.

I found some flowers like Okameno-ki, Shojo-bakama and Sumire on the way.
After back down to the place where we parked, we found the signboards and knew that we shouldn't have cars parked there. You know, there is a large parking place along Bird line and that is where to park.