Mount Yoshino, also known as Yoshinoyama, is located about 30-40 km southeast of Nara city center. This has been a religious pilgrimage site for more than a thousand years and was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2004. Mount Yoshino is visited by many people every spring (approximately from the end of March to the beginning of May). 4), when more than 30,000 cherry blossom trees here bloom together. This is also considered One of the most wonderful cherry blossom viewing locations in the world.
Mount Yoshino Address: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1x6y6RiCnmYtnU8K6
Regarding transportation, first go to Yoshino station, address at THIS.
The train goes here every 1 hour, so remember to go early to avoid crowding, especially during the cherry blossom season (March-April) and red leaf season (November), there will be a lot of people. people come here.
In front of the station there are also many shops selling souvenirs, food and drinks. Remember to prepare carefully before climbing this mountain, the journey is quite strenuous!
During the cherry blossom season, to serve the large number of tourists, the locality also dispatches many buses here, and runs continuously all day.
According to my observations, although the queue to board the bus was very long, after only 15-20 minutes, almost everyone was on the bus to go to the middle of the mountain.
The second mode of transportation, is the cable car at senbon-guchi station, located on the opposite side of Yoshino station.
Senbon-guchi cable car station address: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8cPdvinEFFsX2kNV7
Depending on your climbing ability, you can choose the route to see the flowers that is suitable for you. If you are in good health and good climbing, you can take the cable car, then walk to the top of the mountain; If you are not familiar with mountain climbing, you can take the bus straight to the viewing point at the top of the mountain.
The most famous viewing spot of this mountain is Kami senbon. Residential address THIS.
After many cherry blossom seasons riding the cable car and climbing mountains here, this year I decided to go to the viewing spot by car, so that I could take photos of Mount Yoshino at many different times, from dusk until sunset. dawn. I started at midnight, and arrived at Kami senbon point at 3 am. The parking fee here is 1500 JPY, and it fills up extremely early, so my advice is to come here the night before, choose a parking spot, plug in a camera tripod in advance and sleep in the car, waiting until it's ready. dawn.
I got to the top of the mountain at 3:30 in the morning, and there were almost no places to put my camera tripod, only 1-2 places were left, very lucky.
And here is my result:
I took a 1-minute exposure, and luckily during that time, there was a car going up the mountain, so I captured a streak of light on the road from this car's lights. One of the most memorable moments of my trip.
By about 5:30, it was already light, so I moved down to take more photos of other angles of the mountain.
At about 6:00 a.m., I got in the car and went down the mountain, to avoid traffic jams, because people also started flocking here to admire the scenery.
Yoshino is an extremely peaceful mountain, far from the bustling city, where you can leave all your troubles and worries behind to mingle with nature here. Not only famous for cherry blossoms, the red leaf season here is equally beautiful, so please save this article to come back to Yoshino in the fall!
After finishing the journey at Mount Yoshino, I moved to the next location, also one of the most beautiful cherry blossom viewing locations in Nara province, which is Tsubosaka Dera temple. Articles about Tsubosaka Dera are also available on my Blog. You can click on it THIS to read more.
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