mount aso

24Jul07

During spring vacation, my friends Dirk and Nichole came to visit, and we decided to take the train down to Kyushu to visit Aso-san (Mt. Aso), one of Japan’s most famous active volcanoes. Mt. Aso is made up of five volcanic cones that together make up the “world’s largest caldera, with a circumference of 130 […]

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