Mountain hut in the Southern Alps New Corona also closed this season Yamanashi June 4 13:43

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, all mountain huts at Mt. Fuji have been closed this season, but some mountain huts in the Southern Alps, including Kitadake, have also decided to close this season.

The Southern Alps, which spans Yamanashi, Nagano, and Shizuoka prefectures, is a mountain range with more than 20 mountains including Kita-dake, which has the second highest altitude in Japan after Mt.Fuji, and many mountaineers visit in the summer. I will.

Some mountain huts on the Yamanashi side have decided to close this season because it is difficult to avoid the "three secrets" that prevent the infection with the new coronavirus.

Of these, at Kitadake and Kitazawa Pass in the Minami Alps City, five municipal mountain huts have been closed, and two private mountain huts are to be decided based on the future infection status.

Also, two privately-owned mountain huts on Noritori-dake in Hayakawa-cho and three privately-owned mountain huts at Fenghuangsansan in Nirasaki are scheduled to resume operations this month or next month, but will be decided based on future infection status. That is.

The city-run mountain hut on Kai Komagatake in Hokuto City will be scheduled to resume operations in the middle of this month.

On the other hand, Shizuoka Prefecture and other countries have already decided to close all mountain huts on the Shizuoka Prefecture side of the Southern Alps during the summer season.