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Towada-Hachimantai NP, Aomori
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Hakkōda’s moor pools were likened to “God’s rice paddies”: dense water plants can make them look planted. One traditional explanation links these highland wetlands to the “ta” in Hakkōda’s name.
A 2004 Aomori City account noted natural succession drying Tamoyachi’s marsh: rowan and Aomori fir had spread into the wetland, damaging part of the lookout deck, while the open pools had shrunk.
A roughly 2-kilometer figure-eight trail loops around Tamoyachi Marsh—the “gourd” in Hakkōda Gourd Line—and returns to the ropeway summit station. The shape is built right into the walk.
North Hakkōda’s high moors, including Tamoyachi, can be surprisingly lumpy: raised and sunken patches may differ by about a metre, and each supports a different plant community.
Late spring and summer bring a varied flower show along the Tamoyachi route, including bogbean, hinazakura primrose, Hakusan rhododendron, golden-rayed lily and kurogiboshi plantain lily.
The marshland’s nearby south- and west-facing slopes have a winter transformation: snow and ice coat the local Maries’ firs, sculpting the strange forms nicknamed “snow monsters.”
