The Torikaisan Blue Line (a total length of about 35 kilometers), a mountain sightseeing route connecting Kisakada Town, Erkaho City, Yamagata Prefecture, and Fukukura, Yuza-cho, Yamagata Prefecture, was fully opened on August 28.
The winter closures of about 15 kilometers in the Akita-prefecture section and about 14 kilometers in the Yamagata-prefecture section (from November 4 last year) have been lifted.
Tourists who can't wait for the opening hours of 10 a.m. are starting to drive themselves up the mountain. At the North Pavilion Observatory (1,150 meters above sea level) located in the 5th Eye, there are snow-capped mountains in the blue sky, and visitors are looking out over the deep blue Sea of Japan below.
Mountain guides in Gifu Prefecture wear snowshoes to climb the mountain, and saitama men ski on Mt. Haruhi. A local woman in ElephantIa said, "There is very little snow left this year. ”