Chapter 03 · Experiences
No. 14
Coast, caves and geology
East Izu's volcanoes
東伊豆の火山めぐり
Ride the lift up a perfect 4,000-year-old cinder cone, walk the lava coast it made, and follow the Kawazu river past seven waterfalls.
時刻表Timetable
- 所要Duration
- About 8 hours
- 季節Season
- All year; in February, Omuroyama's yamayaki and the Kawazu cherries.
- 人数Group
- 1–12 guests · Ages 8 and up
- 移動Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arrangedCome in your own carThe hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.Travel by train or in your own car. If you'd rather be driven, we book a private car with a licensed driver, and the hire company bills you directly.
- 集合Meeting point
- The house or Atami Station.
- 料金Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
Add a paid tour and the stay is 10% less; discounts don't combine
Reserve
Choose a day, and book it
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The story
Ride the lift up Omuroyama, a perfect 4,000-year-old cinder cone, walk the lava coast it made at Jogasaki, and follow the Kawazu river past seven waterfalls. Three geosites, one volcanic story, told by your host on the way.
Mount Omuro is a perfect bowl of a hill, the largest scoria cone in eastern Izu, and you may not climb it on foot: a chairlift takes you to the rim, where you can walk all the way round. Its eruption about 4,000 years ago poured lava down to the coast, and that lava is the Jogasaki cliffs, our second stop.
After lunch we go on south to Kawazu, where a river has cut seven waterfalls into much older lava, and walk down past them through the woods. In February the hill is burned in its yearly yamayaki and the Kawazu cherries are out.
Your host's East Izu route: three geosites that tell one volcanic story in a day.
路線図
The route
Times are a guide; the day bends to the weather.
Start
Omuroyama
大室山
1 h 15 min
The chairlift to the rim, and the walk round the crater.
+1:15
The Jogasaki coast
城ヶ崎海岸
1 h
The same eruption's lava, now cliffs and a suspension bridge.
+2:15Finish
Kawazu Nanadaru
河津七滝
1 h 30 min
Seven falls on a wooded trail, downhill all the way.
Good to know
Included
- Your host as guide, in English or Japanese
- A route planned around your group and the weather
- Help booking tickets and restaurant tables
Not included
- Travel: train fares, fuel and tolls for your own car, or the hire car
- Admissions, boats and workshops, paid on the day
- Meals and drinks
- Price
- Guide fee per person, tax included. With your stay: ¥10,000 for one guest, ¥7,500 each for two, ¥5,000 each for three to twelve. Tour only: ¥10,000 each, for two guests or more. Admissions, partner fees, meals and travel are paid on the day. Book a paid tour with your stay and the stay itself is 10% less (you always get the single best discount). Groups of seven or more, please book 10 days ahead.
- Meeting point
- The house or Atami Station.
- Ages
- Ages 8 and up · The falls trail has steps and wet stones.
- Weather
- Fuji, the stars and the fireworks depend on the sky; we tell you the evening before if it's worth going.
- Cancellation
- Guide fees follow the stay's cancellation tiers. Partners' own terms apply to theirs.
On the mapG4
Omuroyama, Jogasaki and Kawazu · About 20 km from the house
Sources
- 01
Mount Omuro erupted about 4,000 years ago; it is the largest scoria cone of the Eastern Izu volcanoes, a national natural monument, and climbing it on foot is not allowed, so visitors ride the lift.
Source: izugeopark.org (opens in a new tab) - 02
Omuroyama's traditional controlled burn (yamayaki) keeps its bowl shape and is held each February.
Source: izugeopark.org (opens in a new tab) - 03
The Jogasaki coast was formed by lava from Mount Omuro's eruption about 4,000 years ago.
Source: itospa.com (opens in a new tab) - 04
The seven Kawazu falls were carved by the river out of lava from the Noborio-minami volcano's eruption about 25,000 years ago.
Source: izugeopark.org (opens in a new tab) - 05
The Izu Peninsula became a UNESCO Global Geopark on 17 April 2018.
Source: izugeopark.org (opens in a new tab)
Ask us about a date.
Tell us the day, who's coming and what you'd like to see. Your host replies within a few hours, in English or Japanese.
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