Mount Usuzan

From Travel-Around-Japan:
Mount Usu ("Usuzan" in Japanese) is a 737-meters-high active volcano, and is located only 3 km south-southeast of the hot spring resort of Lake Toya. 

It is one of most active volcanoes in Japan, then it erupted four times within last 100 years (in 1910, 1944, 1977 and 2000).

You can go up to the top of the mountain with a ropeway, which is on the east slope. 

The boarding point is at the foot of Showa-shinzan.

The hubby waiting to board the gondola

Me in the Usuzan Gondola!

You can checkout more information about the Usuzan Gondola

The view from the gondola:

Spamming more photos of the scenery from Mount Usuzan. You have a view of the Lake Toya, Showa-shinzan, the Pacific Ocean and some craters fuming volcanic smoke.
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How to get to here

By route bus:

About 15 minutes from "Toya-ko Onsen" (the hot spring resort of Lake Toya) to "Showa-shinzan".
We can get the ropeway there.

 

By car:

On the expressway, about 133 km from Sapporo to Date Exit. It takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Then about 10 km to Showa-shinzan.

For the full itinerary of my Hokkaido trip, checkout here.