(五竜岳) Mt. Goryu Hike

Booked for May. Fingers crossed for good weather (can cancel up to the day before)

Budget: JPY41,500 (~USD276)

Hike Date / Difficulty (Elevation: 2,814m / 9,232ft)

Target : 2025
Difficulty: 5 out of 5.
Route below is around 15.4kilometers, with an elevation change of ▲1,854m/ ▽1,854m
Map Link

When to Go
I am yet to see logs for winter, so I'd put May to early November as the safe periods.

Special Notes

Weather check: English / Japanese.
Live camera.
Trailheads. I'm adding a couple, but the one in the map that I plan to do is the first one.

Alps-daira-eki (アルプス平駅). From here to Mt. Goryu's summit, it's a 6.5 hour hike, covering 7.5kms with elevation change of ▲1,567m/ ▽271m

Train, Tokyo to Hakuba Station.
Train, Hakuba Station to Iimori Station (飯森駅).
Walk, Iimori Station to Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort. Google maps pin here. It's about 31 minutes, 2.1kms.
Gondola -> Lift, Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort to Alps-daira (アルプス平駅)

Hakuba Happou (白馬八方). From here to Mt. Goryu's summit, it's a 7 hour hike, covering 8.1kms with elevation change of ▲1,465m/ ▽493m

Bus schedule here, google maps pin here. Bus runs from latter April to early October. JPY180, 5 minutes one way. It's also a 1.7km walk from Hakuba Station if you'd rather walk.
The bus stops are not difficult to find - from Hakuba Station, just go out of the train station and turn left. The bus stop is right in front of the foot onsen.

Gondola Lift Adam -> Alpen Quad Lift -> Grat Quad Lift . Look for the Alpen Line ticket, or just say at the counter that you're going to Happo-ike Sansou. Cards accepted. When I checked there's a morning lift during summer from 4:30am if you're willing to drive to the top of the gondola I think. Otherwise, the gondola starts at 6:30am, ticket office starts at 6am but apparently you can buy the ticket at convenience stores.
Hakuba-Happou Bus Terminal to Happou Trailhead, map here. The lift will take about 15 minutes in total. One way pass will likely be around JPY2,000. They open around

Bus Schedule, Hakuba Station (白馬駅) <> Happou Bus Terminal (白馬八方バスターミナル).