新檜原峠

Please run carefully as the road is bad on the Fukushima side.

Solo camp along the pass. No one passed by. Although it was overnight in the car at an altitude of 1000 meters, the temperature was high at this time. You cannot go by passenger car. This is a road that is allowed only for off-vehicles.

The Yonezawa side opened as Hyakushizawa Forest Road and the Aizu side as Takanosu Forest Road in 1970, and became a new Sugawara Pass. It seems that instead of Kashiharajuku sinking to the bottom of the lake, it was given the name of Kanayama Pass as a ridge connecting Tsunagi and the village of Kanayama. It seems that it is not called by this name too much, either to avoid duplication because there is already the Kanayama Pass on the border of Miyagi Prefecture, or because of the strong impression of the historical pass. The ridge crosses 1107m above the Azuma mountain range with a slightly wider curve and shallow cuts. The dirt section is about 6km. Ganso Hagiwara Pass extends over the ridgeline 1.5km northwest at an altitude of 1094m. The Yonezawa side entrance of the Aizu Yonezawa highway leading to the Sugawara pass is about 2 km from the branch school of the Tsunagi village, and it becomes unpaved shortly thereafter. The Yonezawa side takes you to the pass with a gravel road that is relatively easy to pass, but the area between the pass and the old highway entrance on the Aizu side is somewhat rough. The autumn leaves were beautiful, but driving aside is prohibited. Sugawara Pass is a historic road that has been visited by people for more than 1200 years, and it has been the longest used pass connecting Yamagata and Fukushima. Historical figures such as Date Masamune, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Naoe Kanetsu, Ino Tadayoshi, Yoshida Shoin have also come and go. At the foot of the old road, there is a border mound showing the border, while at the foot of the Aizu side there is a milestone, and there are places that remain in the past. According to the information board, it seems that this Shin-Kashiwabara is also overwritten on the old road except for the section over the peak.