抄録
In national parks, it is one of the indispensable requirements to avoid the crowding perception by the visitors to enable them to have more valuable experiences. Annually, it comes to be highly crowded in Ozegahara, Oze National Park, during a specific period such as Mizubasho (Asian skunk cabbages) blossom season. However, there has been no work done which totalizes the existing opinions concerned with the crowding perception of Ozegahara and examines the ways to improve the condition. Thus, this study takes up the wooden path between Yamanohana and Ushikubi-Bunki as the study area because it is where the crowding peaks in Ozegahara, then rearranges the existing studies of the crowding perception, and clarifies the actual perception of congestion by using the data of visitors' number. Next, it indicates that an important measure for its improvement is to set “the maximum visitor's number per day” of approximately 3200 visitors as the baseline, and to adjust the number of visitors coming into Ozegahara from Hatomachi-Toge to avoid exceeding the baseline. Further, it discusses the trial plan for the improvement of crowding perception and the problems of its appliance by using two concrete frameworks: measures of instruction and regulation.
