Shinhodake Cable Car

Another day trip from Takayama the Shinhodake cable car is a double decker behemoth that takes you up to the top of the third highest peak in Japan.  Astounding views all round and I couldn't have gotten better luck with the weather visibility for miles.  Active volcanoes visible too albeit you would have just assumed they were normal mountain peaks.  Spectacular.

































At the bottom of the cable car was a hotel which had a Japan-famous outdoors onsen in the middle of the river which was one of the few remaining non-divided gender onsens.  Unfortunately it was closed so I was sitting in the lobby for a while but then the manager comes over & explains there is a smaller one down the road which no one really knows about.  And it was free.


My own private onsen