The 百名山 (Hyakumeizan) list will always be my reference when hiking in Japan 1. So far, I have never been disappointed by the lists suggested by this book. One of the attractions of hiking mountains with heights almost 2000m in altitude like Tsurugi-san is the grassland field and beautiful ridgelines at the peak. This mountain was my first hike in the Shikoku island, and it reminded me a lot of Tanigawa-san in Gunma—probably because the weather was similar when I hiked these two mountains: cloudy, misty, and with a little rain.

  1. In 1964, famed Japanese alpinist and author Kyuya Fukada published a book entitled Nihon Hyakumeizan (日本百名山), a collection of essays detailing the author’s 100 favorite mountains in Japan. Link ↩︎