From the gate it is a 5 km (2 hours) hike to the Shusui Dam (取水ダーム) on the Nukabira River (額平川).

[5] For the second day, the route climbs 1.5 km (2 hours) from the mountain cottage to　the Spring of Life (命の泉, inochi no izumi).

The route continues another 2.5 km (2 hours) along the field of alpine flowers past the North Cirque (北カール, kita kāru) to the summit.

The route then turns north and runs 3 km (2 hours) along the Seven Pond Cirque (七つ沼カール, nanatsu-numa-kāru) to the summit of Mount Tottabetsu (1959m).

From the dam the trail goes to a survey cabin along the Poroshiri River and then onto the mountain ridge before ascending to the summit.