Are you outgoing? Do you like hiking?Are you interested in spa? Then…

• Why don’t you join this tour?
  Hiking up Mt.Rokko, having wonderful lunch at the peak.

  Your day will end with staying at one of the most famous and historic natural hot spring areas in Japan.

  This hotel will provide you with your private hot spa in your room.Dinner and breakfast will also be included.

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What to bring

• a day pack,
  hiking shoes,(no sandales and high-heels)
  spare clotes and underwear (as you will get sweaty and be bathing afterward),
  sunglasses,
  hat,
  sunscreen,
  drinks(there is a convenience store near the meeting point),
  some glucose snacks having on the way.

NOTIFICATION

Please tell us your itinerary after this tour so that we will be able to arrange your luggage.

Also please notify us at least 3-4 days before the tour so that we will be able to arrnage all

If

•  you need to send your big luggage to the hotel you are going to stay.(No need to bring all of your luggae on hiking…)
•  you have tatoo anywhere on your body
•  you have any diet restrictions

• We will arrange lunch but please bring some snacks and drinks having on the way as it is always good to keep hydrated and taking glucose while hiking.

History of Kobe mountains

• Ancient time:There were some temples and shrines along the hillside as mountain worship was ver major religion in that time.

  In medieval time

  Having been as some battel field,Rokko mountains were devastated. Besides there were logging, landscaping, firing and so on so that the area became more damaged and ran to ruin.

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• In the Edo period

  People started to enter the mountains to build some reservoirs in the valley.They went into the mountain in search of various living materials such as grass for cattle feed, thatched roofs, firewood for fuel, and clay walls. .. The steep river gave an idea of watermill to people.The watermills were used for squeezing rapeseed oil since the beginning of the period, and were eventually used for milling rice to develop the production of somen noodles and Japanese sake. The granites exposed on the hill were high-quality stone materials, and they became products which were widely known from the place of the big trading port.

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• Hot springs that had been springing along with an earth fault has also been used in the area and the plains for a long time. Wildfires caused by people entering the mountains were also said to be Rokko’s specialty, and often the large amount of forest was burned down. The mountains devastated in this way caused sediment to flow out every time heavy rain falls, and the sediment that flowed out piled up on the mountainside to form an alluvial fan, and a sandbar was formed at the mouth of the river. It is said that when viewed from the top of a ship that arrived in Kobe during the Meiji era, the reflection of the rough mountaintop of Rokko seemed to be covered with snow. In addition, the fact that there was a wasteland that looked like a desert to the north of the mountain again was a result of the history of such excessive mountain use.

   

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Schedule

Up to total of 5-6 people per tour for security reason.In this tour, you will hike up the Rokko mountain. It will take approximately 3.5hours to up and 2 hours down to hot spa area. 

Day 1

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