Round Trip Hike of Mt. Kaimon from Kaimon Sanroku Fureai Park

Walk about 15 minutes from the paved road in Kaimon Sanroku Fureai Park to arrive at the second station trailhead.

From the second station trailhead, the path becomes the hiking path for the lapilli of the laurel forest.

The uphill path without branching proceeds for a while, but each of the station signs, and each of the rescue points of the fourth point at the fifth station, the third point ahead of the seventh station, the second point ahead of the ninth station, and the first point before the peak are useful for identifying your current position.

From halfway past the second station, the path straddles a forest road, and you will arrive at the fifth station about an hour after the second station.

Your field of view gradually opens up such that you can start to see the Osumi Peninsula on the opposite coast of Kagoshima Bay. The path becomes a volcanic rock hiking path at the sixth station.

Proceed past the seventh station about 30 minutes from the fifth station, and look to the south on the left side of the cave called Sennin-do Caves to get a wide view of the East China Sea. As you climb the rocky hiking path past the ninth station, the trees get shorter. Then climb the ladder to arrive at Mt. Kaimon in about an hour and 10 minutes from the seventh station.

From the peak, you can not only see the mountains in Kagoshima such as Kirishima mountain range (Kirishima-renzan) and an active volcano called Mt. Sakurajima on clear days, but you can also see to Yakushima Island on the other side of the East China Sea.

To descend the mountain, go back along the route you came.