Sunday, March 9, 2008

Visiting Mountain Aso in Winter (阿蘇山)

Mount Aso (阿蘇山 Aso-san), located in Kyushu's Kumamoto prefecture, is the largest volcano in Japan. However, this time, I am going to introduce the fun of snow playing in Aso mountian in winter.

Every year February is the best time to go snow playing. Last year we went at the right time, but this year we went in beginning of March, which you can see the snow is melting. However, it always have so much fun to make the snowman.



The right picture and two below were taken last year. As you can see it was the snow world! the whole mountain was covered by snow.














The kids enjoyed making snowballs and made a cute and tiny baby snowman.

This year there weren't lot snow to directly make a snowman, kids had to collect snow from other places near by to make it. However we made a much bigger size one and even gave him clothes and a hat.











This year mountain was so attractive because there were a lot of fog floating around it. It makes you feel that you are watching a movie.







Senri grass (草千里) is the place in the north of Aso mountain crater, the grassy plain of the diameter approximately 1km which spreads to the north base of the official post peak. The ceremony marks a double crater, grazing will be held and developed an idyllic landscape. Above picture was taken during our trip.

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