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The Senjojiki Cirque boasts one of Nagano’s most iconic alpine views. Accessible year-round via the Komagatake Ropeway, it’s a stunning and convenient starting point for an adventure in the Central Alps.
The Central Alps Senjojiki located at an elevation of 2,612 meters at the end of the Komagatake Ropeway is a cirque (semi-circle basin) formed some 20,000 years ago by a slowly receding glacier that eroded away the land.
Senjōjiki Cirque is located on the top of Nakagoshodani Valley. It forms typical cirque landscape, with flat cirque bottom, steep cirque wall with naked rock. The bottom of the cirque is about 2600m above sea level. 11 terminal moraines are confirmed around the cirque bottom.
The experience of a lifetime, only here on the mountaintop. The central Japan Alps cover parts of both Miyada Village and Komagane City in Nagano Prefecture. This is where the Senjojiki Cirque lies, surrounded by peaks of 2500 meters and higher.
The Senjojiki Cirque is accessible year round thanks to the Komagatake Ropeway. The summit station of this aerial tram is the highest point accessible by public transportation in Japan at 2,612 meters above sea level.
Oct 2, 2014 · Senjojiki is famous for its beautiful glacially-carved landscape that yields lush green alpine meadows in the summer. In the autumn you can expect some fabulous fall colors painting the landscape. And in the winter, it turns into a snow-covered Narnia.
Be whisked away in just 7 minutes and 30 seconds to another world high above it all Komagatake Ropeway is built atop the Senjojiki Cirque directly below Mt. Hokendake (elevation 2,931 meters) in Japan's Central Alps.
