Mt Omuro is a 580m tall grassy peak on the Izu Peninsula with a rather cute conical shape. A former volcano - now extinct - it last erupted 4000 years ago and the resulting lava flow created what is now known as the Jogasaki Coast. Unlike most mountains in Japan which you can climb with your own feet, the peak of Mt Omuro is accessible only via chairlift. Once at the top, you can complete a loop around the crater rim in under an hour. So it's not really a hike - but Mt Omuro genuinely is such a pretty little mountain, and the views from the top are amazing too. You can see down to the town below, the sea stretching out beyond that, and even Mt Fuji in the distance if you are lucky with the weather. I don't like to rely on luck though so I made use of this rather reliable Mt Fuji visibility forecast to time this hike. It's a popular tourist attraction so even though we stopped by about 15 minutes before the chairlift opening time of 9am, there was already a bit of a line going. Of…
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