袈裟丸山避難小屋

Unstaffed emergency shelter at about 1,610m in the saddle west of Komaruyama (Kokesa, 1,678m) on Kesamaruyama, at the southern end of the Ashio mountains, in Konaka, Azuma-cho, Midori City, Gunma Prefecture. Midori City's Kesamaruyama climbing map marks it as the Komaru shelter and gives its sleeping capacity as about five. Kesamaruyama is a cluster of summits including Ushiro-Kesamaruyama, Mae-Kesamaruyama and Futagoyama, and the area centred on the southern slopes of the two Kesamaru peaks is a Gunma prefectural nature conservation area. The hut sits at a key point on the traverse: it is 1.9km and 50 minutes up from the stone Jizo at Sai-no-Kawara to Komaruyama, and 1.8km and 1h20m up (1 hour down) from the hut to Mae-Kesamaruyama (1,878m), with a steep roped section on the way. Trailheads include Oriba on the Yumi-no-Te course (rest house, toilets, climbing register, parking for 25-30 cars), Tonosawa by way of the reclining Buddha and the Sorinto pagoda, and the Barasawa Pass course (the Donguri course), opened on 20 April 2024 as an ascent-only route for intermediate and advanced walkers. From Oriba it is 1.8km and an hour up to the stone Jizo at Sai-no-Kawara. Hattanbari, which links Mae-Kesamaruyama to Ushiro-Kesamaruyama, is closed because of advancing weathering. The city asks that anyone using a shelter tidy it back to how they found it, and that climbers file a climbing plan.