Jigokudani

It is a wallpaper photograph of Tateyama Murodo and Jigokudani.

We send the scenery of Jigokudani of Murododaira to you this time. Heaven and hell can be seen if it gets down and takes a walk by the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route and Murododaira. If Murododaira which continues from Mt. Jodo considers it as Heaven, here Jigokudani expresses hell. To Jigokudani, a way is taken in the direction of Mikurigaike from Murododaira, and it is in the place which went down steep stone steps about 5 minutes from Mikurigaike. Jigokudani has a place which will be called dyer hell the place which will be called farmer hell if it goes the level ways including the typical blacksmith hell in the place from which it had got down which go a tengu common to a left hand if it takes in the direction of a right-hand Raityosawa lodge. Although it is said that there is hell of size 136 besides it, which does not clarify [ how it is called and ]. If it comes here, scenery will be changed completely. What was covered with the green till then changes at a stretch to the world of gray 1 color. Moreover, a sulphuric smell veils the circumference and the fumarole called the Syouka sulfur which pressures upwards a sulfide at the beginning of Blacksmith hell, and which was discolored yellow is everywhere. Moreover, it is said that even 10,000-year before is prosperous in eruption activities in the place where the Tateyama volcano was working at the end, and Jigokudani had a crater everywhere in it. Although it seems that just the eruption is settled at the end in the phreatic explosion in 1836, Jigokudani exists as a clear proof that whole Tateyama was a volcano. It seems that moreover, it was known from the place which appears in Konjiki monogatari written to the Heian period that hell is here from before considerably. Moreover, Jigokudani is worshipped as what the hell of this world was expressed to also by the mountain worship and the mountaineering asceticism at the time of the Heian period, and it seems that the hell which appeared in the world serves as elements enough for mountain worship to worship Tateyama with a holy mountain. It seems that moreover, record that the hell attack of Christian suppression which is looked at by the history of the Unzen hell etc. was performed here does not remain. the nature of the locality which had few Christians -- it seems that the mountain climbing without a way with an altitude of 2300m itself deserves torture enough even if carried out. Although I returned from Jigokudani to the way of Mikurigaike again, since the altitude of 2316m and Mikurigaike are 2404m in altitude in blacksmith hell and 88m has been only reached by the vertical drop with about 400m of distance, and 22% of an average slope, it becomes quite tight ascent.

Jigokudani is overlooked from Mikurigaike	Gas emission which goes up	Dyer hell	A desolate promenade
Blacksmith hell	Farmer hell	The river which flows through Jigokudani	From the level sidewalk which goes to a tengu common
Boiling water which begins to spring	sulfur a tower and the Tateyama mountain range	blacksmith hell and sulfur a tower	It wishes from the Emma stand view place.