Onioshidashi-en

photo by Willians Sarti · CC BY-SA 3.0

photo by Bmeg · CC BY-SA 3.0

The 1783 lava flow is 5.5 km long: it looked as if demons had pushed it out.

Wooden walkways cross a field of black, rough, blocky lava that came out of Mount Asama during the great Tenmei eruption of 1783: the flow is about 5.5 kilometres long, from 800 metres to 2 kilometres wide and some thirty metres thick. The name (‘the garden where the demons pushed out the lava’) arose among the people who witnessed the event. The village of Kanbara, swept away by the flow, lost 477 of its 570 inhabitants; a temple commemorates the victims.

A private park run by the Prince Hotels group on the site of the lava flow from the Tenmei eruption of Mount Asama (1783), one of the most violent in Japanese history, which contributed to the great Tenmei famine through the ash that reached as far as the stratosphere.

ℹ️ Open roughly 8:00–17:00 (last entry around 16:30); admission about 700¥ for anyone past junior high school: prices vary slightly from source to source, so it is best to check the official site before setting out.

🚉 Onioshidashien (鬼押出し園) · 3 min walk

Sources: princehotels.co.jp

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