Ogawayama
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is a 2,418m tall mountain on the border of Nagano
Nagano Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...

 and Yamanashi
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kōfu.-Pre-history to the 14th century:People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years...

 prefectures in Japan
Japan
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. It is a famous rock climbing
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...

area.

The rock in Ogawayama consists of granite.

Some famous boulders can be found in Ogawayama. Such as Captain Ahab, the first boulder problem opened in Japan in 1980 , and the notorious Banshousha slab boulder.

There is multipitch climbing up to 9 pitches. The routes are generally not bolted.

Links

  • http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=264, article about Ogawayama bouldering by Jonas Wiklund.
  • http://www.ogawayama.com/, online climbing guide to Ogawayama
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