{"id":2637,"date":"2017-11-21T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/the-great-outdoors-and-some-mountains-right-in-hiroshima-city\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:35:12","slug":"the-great-outdoors-and-some-mountains-right-in-hiroshima-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/the-great-outdoors-and-some-mountains-right-in-hiroshima-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The great outdoors (and some mountains) right in Hiroshima City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33911\" src=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/561px-Hiking_shoes_Lowa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you like the outdoors and fall into one of these categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are new to hiking, that is, inexperienced;<\/li>\n<li>don\u2019t have a great level of fitness;<\/li>\n<li>want to take your kids on a hike with you, but don\u2019t plan on carrying them or<\/li>\n<li>have exhausted all other hiking trails around Hiroshima,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>then hiking Mt. Mitate and\/or Mt. Ushita are for you.\u00a0 In other words, it\u2019s an easy track suitable for people of any age and any fitness level.<\/p>\n<p>When someone told me a hike, I\u2019d envisioned a lot harder; strenuous even. I did it with 11 four and 5-year-olds and I wasn\u2019t sure how they\u2019d go\u2026\u00a0No problem.\u00a0And no, I don\u2019t have 11 kids; they\u2019re my students.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps, best of all, it\u2019s easy to access as it\u2019s right behind Big Wave, which you can reach via the Astram Line (Ushita Station).<\/p>\n<p>When you leave Ushita Station, head towards Big Wave through the park at the front of it. On the right of the building you\u2019ll see a small access road leading up to an open-space grassed carpark. Cut across the grass and make your way up the stairs at the end of the road. You have to use your leg muscles to get up the hill, but if short, little legs can do it, you\u2019ll be just fine!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll reach a rose garden (and the first lot of toilets) which is also a picturesque stop either on the way up or down. Following the road past the garden you\u2019ll come to the second set of toilets. My advice is to go here, especially if you have children, because there\u2019s nothing available after that.<\/p>\n<p>Head up the road to the left and across the bridge to the actual trail. The steps may be steep, but they\u2019re well maintained. As an Aussie who\u2019s used to beating her way through bushland with little or no tracks, Japanese hiking doesn\u2019t seem like hiking, especially when there are man-made steps along the way. Still, it\u2019s sort of nice in a way.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll eventually reach a sign with some very steep stairs. Go up the stairs and then choose either the left route to Mt. Ushita or the right one to Mt. Mitate.\u00a0Although both mountains aren\u2019t particularly high, 134.9m (Mitate) and 260.6m respectively, the view from the top is well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The gazebo at the top of the very steep stairs is a good place for a picnic lunch and the view, even from there is lovely, as it looks over Hiroshima and out to the islands.<\/p>\n<p>At 1.5km each way, it\u2019s an easy option to get some fresh air and exercise without wearing yourself (or the little ones) out, too much.<\/p>\n<p>By DocteurCosmos (Own work) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html\">GFDL<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>], <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHiking_shoes_Lowa.jpg\">via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like the outdoors and fall into one of these categories: are new to hiking, that is, inexperienced; don [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,54,59,63,150],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hiroshima-2","category-japan","category-life-in-japan","category-outdoors","category-sports","tag-hiroshima-city-2","tag-hiroshima-prefecture-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50861,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/50861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}