I enjoy fully at the Oze route where I go from Uonuma! Well, I'll go to beautiful natural Heaven "Oze"!

The Oze route where I go from Uonuma Ship and bus reservation

The "Oze national park" which extends over 4 prefecture in Niigata, Fukushima, Gunma and Tochigi and spreads. A starting point in a route which follows Oze from Niigata prefectural side is Uonuma city here. This process called a common name "the Oze route where I go from Uonuma" opens to traffic on ordinary year June 1. I'll introduce an interesting place of its charm in a route and also Oze national park and how to enjoy oneself!

History Romain Oze Saburo who stays in Uonuma

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[Careful point]

Please confirm (Oze protection foundation website) here about the latest information in 2025 (2025) season (For being expected to do mountain cabin business of a road to Oze.)

What kind of place is Oze?

Oze is the national park which extends over Niigata Uonuma city, Fukushima prefecture Hinoemata village, Gunma Prefecture Katashina village and 4 prefectures in Nikko-shi, Tochigi and spreads.

It's shared with 2 areas big. The "Ozenuma" area where the river where one was held back makes the scenery like the lake. You can wish for grand Mt. Hiuchigatake in the highest peak north of Tohoku. The cotton grass which shakes in a wind softly and clumping of NIKKOUKISUGE where yellow is vivid meet the person who visits in early summer. The area where even one-day visit can go from Uonuma city by a ship and a bus.

And another are a "Ozegahara" area with wetlands of the Honshuu maximum level. Even a song feels a pronoun of famous Oze "skunk cabbage" is wide in spring. The scenery of the vast wetlands and the beautiful mountains is beauty in which I hold my breath.

Wetlands in Oze where you circled the environment in the mountains. The scenery which is entering a relay race and colors colorful flowers to the next from the next every four seasons at all. That, indeed, "Heaven in the sky" and, it's called, a suitable panorama.

Without the fact mistakes once visiting, which are captivated by the beautiful nature "Oze"!

Transportation? How to access from Uonuma city

It's divisible big, and there are 2 ways to go to the Oze from Uonuma city.

Pattern 1: while traveling, charm, fully! The "Oze route where I go from Uonuma using a ship and a bus

Recommendation of a way to the Oze is the "Oze route where I go from Uonuma to the Oze by far the most using "ship and bus" from Uonuma. The JR Urasa Station is made a starting point from the Uonuma city side, and it's to "Okutadami dam" by local bus. I cross a huge artificial lake "Okutadami Lake" by ship from there, and changes trains to "bus" and goes to the Oze and the Numayama-toge Pass after that.

Worry of driving while traveling can enjoy the scenery from the car window slowly, and is a little way.

※ The Oze route where I go from Uonuma needs preliminary reservation. A timetable and reservation method, conversantly.Here

The way to go by a car and a motorcycle using number 352 of pattern 2: national highway

The other means are number 352 of national highway which leads to a Oze district from Uonuma city. When this road is used, even a private car or a motorcycle can face. It's to the Miike (See.) parking lot that you can pass. I change trains to a shuttle bus and move to Numayama-toge Pass from there.

But, time frame which can be passed is even around the end of ordinary year June-beginning of November because there is winter Road Closed in number 352 of national highway.

Please check the latest road information at here.▶Traffic information in the Uonuma city

There are also more places with the small way car width, so it's attention enough in driving!

Details about each how to access?Here

I look for charm in the Oze route where I go from Uonuma!

The scenery while traveling is also to be able to enjoy oneself, and what kind of course is the popular "Oze route where you go from Uonuma?

The "superb view in" a vast land of mystery where the feature of this process is spread in far in the mountains in Uonuma by far the most. And the exhilarating feeling felt by crossing a grand lake by ship in the way. It's popular as the land of mystery route which is the charm filling which can say the way to the free Oze and also enjoy in the field.

1. It's suitable for an entrance to Oze! The "Okutadami silver line" which feels history

The tunnel road where Michinaka heading to a Okutadami dam has that from JR Urasa Station. The way where it can also be said an entrance of "the Oze route where I go from Uonuma". When I mix, a tunnel will be also about 18 km. It was the made way to carry material for Okutadami dam construction originally. A wall of the unsupported excavation I made rugged is left by the part in the tunnel, and it's a highlight that the history to which a trace in construction at that time is being transmitted even now can be felt!

2.2,000m It's circled by the mountains of the order. The passage which is while looking at a superb view "Okutadami Lake"

It's a Okutadami wharf to arrive when it passes through a Okutadami silver line. It's movement by ship from here. The huge artificial lake where Okutadami Lake has been completed in 1960. The pondage is about 600,000,000 ㎥and the Japanese maximum level. You can also wish for Mt. Arasawadake and Mt. Hiuchigatake from a lake.

The form which suits the surface of the lake and is crowded is the scenery just like the fiord! It's the charm by which this route is most that this magnificent natural superb view is seen. The sense of expectation to Oze is also full.

3. Wildwood of the beech I see from a bus. Marvellous land of mystery road "number 352 of national highway"

I take a bus, and moves number 352 of land of mystery road national highway to from a Oze guchi wharf to Numayama-toge Pass. Wildwood of the vast beech which spreads over a car window under the Mt. Hiragatake in Japan one hundred famous mountain and the eyes. It's more bus travel which will be while enjoying a beautiful flower in a Buckweat field at time.

If I get off a bus by Numayama-toge Pass, well, it's departure to a Oze hike!

While traveling, charm, fully! Details about the Oze route where I go from Uonuma?Here

Every four seasons, charm filling! The seasonal plants which blooms in Oze

The Oze which is also famous as a treasure house of an alpine plant. What kind of flower is judged by each from spring Natsuaki? I'll introduce the Numayama-toge Pass-a copy of flora which is often seen relatively in case of a Ozenuma one-day visit hike!

The plants which blooms in Oze in spring

The season when the flower which represents Oze where even a famous tune "memory in summer" was sung "skunk cabbage" blooms. The "Ryukin mosquito" etc. which colors wetlands after a thaw.

Skunk cabbage
Ryukin mosquito

The plants which blooms in Oze in summer

"Cotton grass" and "NIKKOUKISUGE" which bloom in a front page are time when vivid flowers are in full bloom by Oe wetlands of Ozenuma.

Cotton grass
NIKKOUKISUGE

The plants which blooms in Oze in autumn

The last runner who comes to an end season in Oze "EZORINDOU" blooms, and unity of wetlands is also a season for gold.

EZORINDOU
Autumn leaves

More conversantly of the plants which blooms in Oze.Here

The latest Oze information?Here(Quoting: Oze protection foundation official website)

It's also recommended to the first one! Nature guide and the Oze which goes

The master who knew everything of Oze! Wouldn't you like to walk Oze with a nature guide? In the first one, it's also apparent for new discovery and how to enjoy oneself also to increase in the way visited several times!

With a Oze nature guide?

The specialist who had rich knowledge in Oze corresponding to emergency and a circumference area of guide technology and an emergency it was comfortable safely and to offer the natural experience with the high quality to the user in a Oze national park.
The tour guide who belonged to a guide group of Uonuma city "Uonuma natural university" and possessed Oze authorization guide qualification is guiding you.

The guide arrangements by individuals and a group are also possible. For details.Here

Equipment? Belongings? FAQs about a Oze hike

Which degree is the temperature of the Q: Oze? Clothes?

Oze is a mountain range in altitude 1,000M chou. Than a plain, the temperature, 10-15 times, please imagine being low. There is also lowest temperature on a minus day in the beginning of June and the second half September and I'll also recommend you bringing of a long sleeve and trousers in midsummer. More sun is very strong at midsummer, so a hat is an indispensable item.

Q: A local weather forecast is "fine" on the day. Is the rainwear unnecessary?

Rainwear prepares for sudden weather deterioration, and is indispensable. If it's a simple one, rain blows by a wind, I'll recommend you something of the upper and lower separate type for which both hands can be used.

Can Q: shoes walk sneakers?

Much, Kido must also be able to walk a maintained part by sneakers. But it's easy to slip and Kido who gets wet is very dangerous. There is also a place where Kido isn't maintained, so "trekking shoes" etc. for mountains is an ideal.

Can Q: one-day visit go?

Time you can spend in the Oze becomes little, but they're able to enjoy one-day visit by building walking time up deliberately. And it's possible to leave or return after fatigue of movement is healed slowly by making horizontal Tomari a spa in the Uonuma city. I'll recommend you the plan added to your physical strength.

The Oze route day course to which I go from Uonuma will be reported! For details.Here

Can food be bought at Q: Oze?

There are Shop and an eating place in Oze, and it sticks or is here. But it's sometimes at a sellout and a good sleep, so I'll bring a minimum food drink.

※ Lunchboxes shop in the Uonuma city "Omomo". The fried rice of wild vegetable by which an author Ken Kaiko request is origination [Kaikou feed box lunch]. Omomo details (are reservation here before a※ important matter).

It's also convenient for access to Oze! Onsen is also enjoyed fully at Uonuma!

Gap of ups and downs is one-day visit little in the Oze route where I go from Uonuma, and it's possible to enjoy a hike. The Uonuma city with many spas is most suitable as the horizontal berth to heal fatigue! Each spa is also a bus stop car place by the Oze route where I go from Uonuma.

I'll introduce the spa in the Uonuma city I'd like to enjoy before and after a Oze hike.

1. Oyu Onsen

It depends on Gyoki (the Japanese Buddhist priest who came into action from the Asuka period to Nara era) in A.D. 718, kaiyu. It's the spa which represents Uonuma loved from many generals in warlike ages.

Effect: Of a frozen shoulder, a poor circulation (poor circulation) and a joint, I stiffen, joint pain.

< access to the Oze route where I go from Uonuma> please use a southern Echigo sightseeing bus and a Oyu Onsen bus stop (or, bus stop in front of the Oyu Onsen ski area).

Details of accommodations of Oyu Onsen?Here

2. Tochiomata Onsen

Worldwide, few radium spring. Nara era and the history are also old in kaiyu.

A bathing method which is long and is flooded "Nagayu" is handed down from generation to generation to become lukewarm hot water, and when I have an influence good for the immunity power and the self-healing power, its effect is being talked about. It's also famous as child's hot water because it's even possible to heat up a core of a body.

Effect: The pain with chronic muscle or joint or stiffening Hardened artery, gout, cholelithiasis, chronic cholecystitis, chronic women's disease and chronic dermatosis

< access to the Oze route where I go from Uonuma> please use a southern Echigo sightseeing bus and a Tochiomata Onsen bus stop. But, the Okutadami dam line departing at JR Urasa Station 7:45 doesn't stop. Please use a bus stop in front of the nearest Oyu Onsen ski area (from Tochiomata Onsen, about 12 minutes on foot).

Details of accommodations of Tochiomata Onsen?Here

3. Oritate (Get off.) Onsen

Quiet spa in a mountain where inn equals a riverside. There are many customers who visit in a hot spring therapy destination in rather a little lukewarm Onsen, too. Domestic warm hospitality and the rich volume of hot water are charm.

Effect: Neuralgia, rheumatism and hardening of artery, etc.

< access to the Oze route where I go from Uonuma> please use Echigo sightseeing bus and a Oritate Onsen bus stop.

Details of accommodations of Oritate Onsen?Here

5. Yakushi Onsen

The hot spring even a core becomes warm and it's difficult to feel a chill after a bath where. It's located in a hill and there is "Yamabikosou" in an inn. The yield of vegetables and the play at river which can sense four seasons are also accepting an experience variously.

Effect: Of a frozen shoulder, a poor circulation (poor circulation) and a joint, I stiffen, joint pain.

< access to the Oze route where I go from Uonuma> please use Echigo sightseeing bus and a bus stop in front of the Yunotani junior high school (from Yakushi Onsen, about 8 minutes on foot).

Details of Yakushi Onsen?Here

6. Ginzandaira Onsen

Echigo Komagatake and the spa Mt. Arasawadake is circled by the grand mountains, and where winter closes wintertime for heavy snowfall. Onsen can be enjoyed comfortably by the atmosphere wrapped in great outdoors.

Details of Ginzandaira Onsen?Here

A summary: The distance to Oze can also be enjoyed! Charm was a fullness route in the Oze route where I go from Uonuma!

A highlight introduced the "Oze route where charm is much where I go from Uonuma to Michinaka who goes to the fullness Oze and the Oze, too.

Wouldn't you like to find the scenery only that case can see and enjoy right or wrong Oze as well as Onsen and sightseeing in Uonuma?

You're Oze surely, too, when going once, for a captive♪.

2025 Oze trekking map download?Here (pamphlet page)

Additionally detailed information about Oze?Here(Oze protection foundation official website)

The history romance Oze Saburo story left in Uonuma?Here