I know about Arashiyama and Sagano, but I don’t want to walk down a path with walls on either side. I’d like to experience walking in a wild bamboo forest, but don’t know where to go. Does anyone know of places like this? Thanks!
Anything that’s landscaped is going to have some sort of wall or fence to stop people from damaging the forest – the Arashiyama bamboo forest isn’t left to grow freely.
> I’d like to experience walking in a wild bamboo forest
Wild, or more appropriately, abandoned bamboo forests are a mix of bamboo and other plants and look nothing like landscaped ones. Most you can’t even walk through they are so dense.
My wife’s grandparents own a couple plots of bamboo forests around Japan but mostly in Ibaraki.
I can tell you from experience that walking through a wild bamboo forest really isn’t that fun, it’s almost 100% a game of “dodge the massive spiders who have decided to make their webs between the bamboo”.
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There is one place near Fushimi Inari, that is a bit wilder and I do not think have walls, but you should probably not walk too much outside of the path. : [https://thesophiaseries.com/how-to-get-to-the-secret-bamboo-grove-near-fushimi-inari/](https://thesophiaseries.com/how-to-get-to-the-secret-bamboo-grove-near-fushimi-inari/)
Maybe Osaka Expo 70 Commemorative Park : [https://gipsypapa.exblog.jp/30478743/](https://gipsypapa.exblog.jp/30478743/)
Jizo-in temple in Kyoto : [https://www.jalan.net/kankou/spt_26111ag2130012066/](https://www.jalan.net/kankou/spt_26111ag2130012066/)
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Edit : might find a patch of bamboo when hiking, but it’s not bamboo forest all the way.
Mount Tennōzan : [https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/mytrip/howto/yamazaki-guide/](https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/mytrip/howto/yamazaki-guide/)
Mount Wakayama : [http://hamatani1234.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-367.html](http://hamatani1234.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-367.html)
Anything that’s landscaped is going to have some sort of wall or fence to stop people from damaging the forest – the Arashiyama bamboo forest isn’t left to grow freely.
> I’d like to experience walking in a wild bamboo forest
Wild, or more appropriately, abandoned bamboo forests are a mix of bamboo and other plants and look nothing like landscaped ones. Most you can’t even walk through they are so dense.
My wife’s grandparents own a couple plots of bamboo forests around Japan but mostly in Ibaraki.
I can tell you from experience that walking through a wild bamboo forest really isn’t that fun, it’s almost 100% a game of “dodge the massive spiders who have decided to make their webs between the bamboo”.
If that’s your idea of fun, by all means.