THINGS TO DO IN TSURUOKA #2-Climb Mount Gassan
GAS-san, YAMAGATA Talking about Yamagata, people might talking about mountains. No wonder, Yama means Mountains and my guess is Yamagata is the city with mountains. Located in northern part of Japan made this place colder that any other places in Japan (except Hokkaido, of course it's the coldest). Historically, Japanese people, especially who lives in Yamagata believe that there are 3 main God in this universe and in Japan they are called ~san, like Gas-san, Haguro-san and Yudono-san. Not sure enough about why those three and why only three, pretty sure google has much more answers cause I'm not gonna talk history :p Well, the main point of some mountains in Yamagata, in this case those 3 Gods, is you climb the mountain then you will find a shrine there. Probably used to be the place for some ritual to become a God or something. Like Haguro, I found also one religious spot and, of course, shrine in Gassan is cool. Pretty awesome and wonder how people who lived before ce...