About a month ago, the caution level at the Aso volcano returned to Level 1. Under normal circumstances, tourists would be allowed peer down into the volcano from its rim at this level but damage to the roads and other infrastructure make that impossible now. I’ll try to post something to this page if the situation changes.
– Kirk
http://www.aso.ne.jp/~volcano/eng/
P.S. The link above has another link to “more detailed information” but it is a machine translation of a Japanese page, so the English isn’t perfect. As I have written before, machine translation can be useful when there’s no budget for proper translations but I really wish a link to the original page could be included with the translated information. Here’s the missing link to the original page:
http://www.city.aso.kumamoto.jp/2017/02/17/阿蘇中岳警戒情報-2/
It is certainly true that providing information in English (and other languages) (even if only a machine translation) is a welcome addition to Japanese information for non-Japanese users. However, I’m afraid that too many people have jumped to the mistaken conclusion that foreigners ONLY need information in foreign languages and that information in Japanese is irrelevant. I need to try to find the time to talk to more people who might be in a position to change this.
