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The story
A 24-year-old man who had gone hiking with acquaintances at Kurakake Pass in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture, has been reported missing. According to reports, the man complained of fatigue and quit the hike just 15 minutes after starting, telling the group he would head back down alone — but he was never heard from again. The search has continued since the previous day and resumed on the morning of September 3rd. On the forum thread, many reacted with surprise (“You can get lost in a distance of just 15 minutes?”), while others pointed out that the scenery looks different on the way down than on the way up, making it easy to lose the trail, and some noted a discrepancy in the article between “3 people” and “4 people” regarding the number of companions.
Quit hiking just 15 minutes in… 24-year-old man, one of a group of 4, went missing after descending alone — search resumes at dawn
Thu, Sep 3, 6:31 AM JST
Tokai TV
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Got lost 15 minutes after setting off from the 5th station (the roughly halfway rest point) lol
Maybe he just didn't want to go in the first place?
He's not some elementary schooler who quietly wanders off without a word while hanging out with friends he's not that into lol
That's literally me 🥺︎︎
That's me leaving the after-party (nijikai) lol
You climb for 15 minutes, turn back after 5, take a wrong turn, walk another 20 minutes and still can't get back, and then you can't even retrace the way you came — at that point you're done for.
That's basically how people get lost in the mountains
Probably doesn't know how to use it — the generation that only uses phones for games and social media
No idea — never even heard of a city called Inabe before, so I couldn't tell you
I'm a local, but it's not even a famous mountain to begin with, so I don't even have a sense of what "climbing" it means
It's the trailhead for Mt. Oike. If you're lucky, you might spot a squirrel along the way
I think it's possible. The scenery looks quite different going up versus coming down. If someone has a poor sense of direction, this kind of thing isn't surprising
Even straying off the trail just a little can easily turn into getting lost — it happens all the time
Even so, he'd only walked for 15 minutes…
If you get lost in the mountains, head upward — that's the golden rule of hiking. Whether it's Mt. Fuji or Everest, going up will tell you where you are
>"started hiking with 3 acquaintances"
So is it 3 or 4, make up your mind
If you're not trolling, go back and redo elementary school
This is exactly the type of guy who gets lost in the mountains lol
Came hiking with 4 people = 3 acquaintances + the guy who went missing. Got it?
I get that he wasn't feeling well, but why would that make him get lost?
Maybe he drank the night before and was hungover
Since he's 24, he's actually not from the generation that went through the 'yutori' relaxed-education system
24-year-olds aren't 'yutori generation' lol lol
Rock Garden (a famous rocky scramble section on Mt. Rokko) is rough going for a beginner
Saw a local's Pomeranian climbing it too lol
They made me climb that section on my third time up Mt. Rokko. I was seriously like, are you kidding me
Background and Key Points of This Story
Kurakake Pass sits in the Suzuka Mountains on the border between Mie and Shiga prefectures and is one of the main trailheads for Mt. Oike, though it’s a low mountain with little name recognition nationwide. Even low mountains often have trails that branch in complicated ways, and cases where hikers lose the trail because the scenery looks different on the way down than on the way up are considered a classic pattern behind getting-lost incidents. The discrepancy discussed on the thread — the article referring to both “3 acquaintances” and “a group of 4” — is likely not actually contradictory if you count the missing man himself as the fourth person, suggesting the topic arose from a misreading. Cases of hikers going missing within such a short time and distance of starting out, as in this incident, aren’t unusual, and since factors such as losing the trail, sudden illness, or a fall could all be at play, there is currently no way to pin down the cause for certain.
*This article was compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Mie] Quit hiking just 15 minutes in… 24-year-old man, one of a group of 4, went missing after descending alone — search resumes at dawn, Kurakake Pass.”
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