It's too bad that we visited the Mt. Aso in a rainy day. The pictures were taken during the short period between two rain showers.

Mt. Aso-san is located at the center of Aso-National Park in Kumamoto and Oita, which lies roughly at the center of Kyushu. The mountain is a typical complex volcano composed of an outer rim with a total circumferential length of 128 kilometers, a caldera with seven towns and villages inside it and five mountains (Aso Gotake) on the central plateau including the active Mt. Naka-dake.

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