Ikeyama Spring

**It is much quieter than Shirakawa.** Same designation, a fraction of the visitors, because it is an hour further into the hills with nothing else around it. **The trees are the composition.** Two-hundred-year-old cedar and the light coming through onto the pool. Overcast days actually suit it better than bright sun. **Free, and water can be taken.** Bring a container; local people fill large ones here. **Ubuyama has about fifteen hundred people.** High grassland, cattle, and very little else. That emptiness is the reason to drive out rather than a drawback. **Combine with the Aso rim road.** The route between Ubuyama and Daikanbo runs along the caldera edge and is one of the best drives in Kyushu.