The georgeous Yōtei-zan is quite remarkable and we looked at it all the time in Tōya-ko-Onsen. The hiking route is also found in our Hiking Japan guide and therefore we couldn’t resist to climb it. By local trains we got to Hirufa, were we put up our tent late night. The early next morning we set out to climb the approx. 1500m elevation to the summit at 1893m. After 4 hours of ascent, the view was absolutely terrific!