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100 Famous Japanese Mountains · No. 2

Mount Rausu 羅臼岳

Elevation 1,660 m (5,446 ft)HokkaidoHokkaido region
Mount Rausu
Mount Rausu (羅臼岳)Photo: 663highland — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5
Elevation1,660 m (5,446 ft)
LocationHokkaido, Japan
RegionHokkaido
Famous Mountains listNo. 2 of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains (Nihon Hyaku-meizan)
Coordinates44.07583° N, 145.1225° E

Mount Rausu ( only) On June 1st, 1964 (U.S.A.), it was designated as the Indochial National Park on June 1st, and in July 2005, the Indochial Peninsula, including this mountain area, was officially registered to the Instrument (World Heritage). It's on the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains by Harada Kubo. It's a mountain selected for a hundred new flowers.

Overview

The altitude was changed to 1,651 meters in 1995 by the National Geographic Institute, but by a more precise GPS survey, it was changed to 1,660 feet on May 1, 2008. However, the results of the inspection and corrections, including GNSS measurements, have been revised again to 1,651 meters on April 1, 2014, in the Japanese mountain range - 1003 mountains. The activity of the lava of the molten rock from the extremism of the pumice to the pumice of the rock has formed an upper layer volcano, but finally, near the top of the mountain, there are many landslides and decays over the years. It is a active volcano that was active until about 500 years ago, and in 1964 it observed over a hundred earthquakes and jets of geysers in the mountain range. One of the trimiums. In 1965, a ten-circuit stamp of the National Park of XXQ021X was released.

About the name

In the Ainese name, it's called chacha-nu. This is the intent of "Buddda Mountain," and Yoichi Yamada, a researcher in Inne language, asks, "Is it the highest point in the Indo-Tama Peninsula?" It's also called the Master of the Arts. There are times when kanji is written as a good cow.

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Eruption activity

During the 1990 ' s, when a study of the history of the eruptions of the Hazmat fluoride Mount was made, more than once in the last 2,000 years, it was identified as a active volcano in 1996, but there has been no eruption since the late 19th century and no eruption since 1996. The lava flow near the top of the mountain and the lava dome have fresh terrain that points to the possibility that it was formed at three periods. In the last 2300 years, volcanic activity was active three years ago, 2,200 - 2,300 years ago, 1,400 - 1,600 years ago, 500 - 700 years ago. The activities of 2,200-300 years ago, caused a relatively large eruption and caused a drop-down and a blast. 1,400- 1,600-year-old activity. 500-700-year-old activities like the descents and the blasts.

The climbing route

The mountain entrances are fixed from Memel's hot spring, and the mountain trails are from the rockside hot spring. The time it takes is shorter. Lake Five has a playwalk, and you can hope for the mountain. The climbing route is steep and fragile and under severe weather conditions. It's also an area where bears are often buried.

It's the cabin around here

The cabin.

It's a bear attack

On August 14th, 2025 (confirmed on the day after a bear attacked one of the climbers). Hokkaido police searched the missing persons and found rescue by helicopter of another climber in a nearby exhibit. Although the climb was closed and opened with the opening of the mountain on July 5, 2026, a sign was used to show the safety level of the brown bear's rise and fall.

Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 羅臼岳, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Elevation and location facts cross-checked with Wikidata (CC0) and the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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