Oze, Mt. Hiuchi-ga-take
Oze is forming the boundaries among the three prefectures of Gunma, Niigata, and Fukushima, has been known with a history of people worked on natural reservation as well as a popular school song "Natu no Omoide (memory of summer)". Also, Oze is one of the biggest natural treasuries of alpine flowers. The familiar history of Oze started in 1980, when Chozo Hirano in Hinoemata Village of Fukushima opened up Mt. Hiuchi-ga-take (2,356 meter, highest in Tohoku District). The value of Oze is that mountains, lakes, ponds, marshes, forests and waterfalls, which were created in the operation of nature in this area that showing the footfall of earth from a hundred and several dozens million years ago to the present, are reserved just as what they have been since the primitive time.
From Japanese skunk cabbages in early summer to shining red and yellow leaves in autumn, various alpine plants create the scenery which gives people feeling of the heavenly happiness. Oze can be called a holy place, and it makes visitors consider that those alpine plants can just grow on its unique nature.
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