Tourism Information

Municipal Okuhiratani Camping Ground is at the entrance to the trail up Mt. Kyogatake, the highest mountain in Saga Prefecture, and it is popular as the base camp for West Kyushu sightseeing.
It also suits summering, barbecuing (Use for a one-day trip for barbecuing only is allowed), class events, a club training camp. Please come and visit us once.

If there is vacancy in the facility, people without reservation can sign up and use it on the same day. Please call the administrative building after 15:00 on the day of use, or please come to the camping ground directly during these hours.

However, please note that in case no reservation has been made in advance, the camping ground is closed for that day.

Okuhiratani Camping Ground Administrative Building (Phone calls are not answered except on the days when lodging is possible.) 2016 Phone number (currently being processed)

For reservations on weekdays, please contact Kashima City Commerce and Tourism Division (Phone: 0954-63-3412)

Recommended Ways of Spending Time at the Camping Ground BEST 5

Griddles, cooking stoves, cooking utensils can be rented. (first-come-first-served basis: the number of them is limited.) Please do not forget to bring ingredients. No food or drinks are sold on the camping ground. Firewood and charcoal are sold at the administrative building. (You can bring them by yourselves too.)

Mt. Kyogatake is the highest mountain in Saga Prefecture. It is 1,076 meters tall. It takes about two and a half hours to get to the top, from which you can have a good view of Mt. Aso and the Omura Bay on a clear day.

Why don't you sit around a big fire and talk? Make memories of the summer. However, please handle fire carefully.

Catch somen flowing through a bamboo water pipe in nature. Please bring 'noodles' and 'soup' by yourselves. The places where you can do 'somen nagashi' are two: under the kitchens next to Bungalow 'Shiragiku' and next to Bungalow 'Bodaiju.'

* Somen nagashi is on the first-come-first-served basis on the day of that event. However, please be considerate so that other people can do it too.

It may be a good idea to cool a watermelon or a drink in two rivers flowing through the camping ground.

If you go down 500 meters from this camping ground, you will find 'Hiratani Onsen' (or Hiratani Hot Spring). Also, delicious 'spring water' is flowing out at the product direct sales store near the camping ground, and a lot of people gather there from outside the city as well as from the city.

During the day and the next day, please enjoy experiential sightseeing 'Kashima New Tourism' too.

About 20-minute drive from the center of the city. About 20-minute drive from Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, too. Confirm on the google map (External link)

For 2016, the application method and the days when lodging is possible are as shown below.

8:00, Friday, April 1 

Please call or visit the Commerce and Tourism Division of the City Hall.

April: 29th, 30th

May: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th

June: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

July: 2nd, 9th, 16th and 17th, 21st to 24th, 28th to 31st

August: 4th to 7th, 11th to 16th, 18th to 21st, 25th to 28th

September: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 

To find out the positions of cottages, bungalows, etc. inside Okuhiratani Camping Ground, please refer to the Pamphlet（PDF5.75MB）

The equipment of a cottage inside includes a Western-style toilet, a bath with a shower, a sink, a household outlet, cooking utensils (an electromagnetic cooker, a chopping board, a kitchen knife, a pot, a kettle, a thermos bottle, a ladle, a bowl), plus 10 dishes (two types), spoons, 10 blankets, a rush mat.

The only equipment of a bungalow inside is lighting equipment that can be used 24 hours a day except that bungalows with the capacity of 20 people have a Japanese-style toilet inside.

There are five cottages: two two-story cottages and three single-story cottage.

・In the case of a one-day trip, the fees will be reduced by half.（※In the case of a one-day trip, you can only use until 20:00in the evening）.

Type	Capacity	Number of buildings	Amount (yen)	Standard area
bungalow	6	5	2,200	four and a half tatami mats
	7	5	2,560	six to six and a half tatami mats.
	20	2	7,350	8 tatami mats＋8 tatami mats
cottage	10	2	12,430	Japanese-Western style room (20 tatami mats)
		3		Western-style room 13 tatami mats
A drag-in tent		5 tatami mats	360	Directions by the caretaker of the camping ground

You can rent rental items at the administrative building on the camping ground, but please note that they are on the first-come-first-served basis on the day of renting.

Name of Item	Fee
pan, pot, bowl, sieve, chopping board, kitchen knife, rice scoop, ladle, aluminum dish (two types), kettle, cooking canteen, spoon, bottle opener, etc.	40 yen
rush mat	60 yen
blanket, cooking stove for barbecuing, griddle, cooking mesh	100 yen
fan heater	400 yen

1. Be sure to bring garbage bags because you are required to take all your garbage back home.

2. Though we have plenty of stock for rental service, renting is on the first-come-first-served basis, so you are advised to bring necessary things on your own if possible.

3.Somen nagashi is on the first-come-first-served basis on the day of that event. However, please be considerate so that other people can do it too.

4. Mobile phones may display 'outside the coverage area,' and you may not be able to use them.

5. It is prohibited to launch a skyrocket at the camping ground due to the prevention of fire. (You may enjoy ordinary fireworks.)

6.Please do not bring pets with you (In the case of a guide dog, etc., please contact the Commerce and Tourism Division.).

7. Please refrain from doing things against the caution posted inside rooms.

8.Be careful not to drop things in shared toilets. There was a case in which a user almost dropped a smartphone into the toilet tank when crouching down.

9.If you are on a one-day trip, you have to leave the camping ground before 20:00.

10.Bungalows do not have outlets. Please bring power sources such as portable battery chargers, etc. in advance.

* If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the offices below.

Commerce and Tourism Division (Accepting Reservation)
2643-1 Oaza Nodomibun, Kashima, Saga-ken, Postal Code: 849-1312
Phone: 0954-63-3412 Fax: 0954-63-2313

Okuhiratani Camping Ground Administrative Building (Open only on the days when the camping ground is open)
Inside the national forest, Honjo, Oaza Yamaura, Kashima, Saga-ken
Phone: 0954-64-2085