Visiting Mount Aso, Kumamoto

In the afternoon, we had decided to take a drive to see the Mount Aso crater otherwise known as Mount Nakadake. We wanted to go to the top of mountain by car, but the road was closed to traffic. We went to the Kusasenri (草千里) observatory to see the current eruption of volcano instead.

Close up view of the Mount Nakadake creator.

The small eruption is still going on now.

Superb views of Mount Komazuka and the outer ring of Aso mountain rims. Komezuka (米塚), an old volcano on the mountain, is in the center picture and the mountain ranges of northern Aso in the foreground. 

Kusasenrigahama (草千里ケ浜) is a grassland located on the opposite side of the road. There is the former crater in the north of Mount Eboshi, one of the five mountains of Aso.