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Kii Mountains (紀伊山地, Kii Sanchi) is a mountainous region covering most of the Kii Peninsula. They lie south of the Japan Median Tectonic Line (MTL) in Wakayama , Nara , and Mie prefectures.
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height. ... "List of Japanese mountains" (in Japanese). Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
Japanese exonyms are the names of places in the Japanese language that differ from the name given in the place's dominant language.. While Japanese names of places that are not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese terms for some place names are obscured, either because the name was ...
The Japanese Alps (日本アルプス, Nihon Arupusu) is a series of mountain ranges in Japan which bisect the main island of Honshu.The peaks that tower over central Honshu have long been the object of veneration and pilgrimage.
Mountain ranges of Japan by prefecture (33 C) J. Japan Alps (5 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Japan" ... Japanese Alps; K. Kantō Mountains; Kyushu ...
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny . [ 1 ]
Mount Yōtei (羊蹄山, Yōtei-zan, literally "sheep-hoof mountain") is an active [2] [3] stratovolcano located in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Hokkaidō, Japan.It is also called Yezo Fuji or Ezo Fuji (蝦夷富士), "Ezo" being an old name for the island of Hokkaido, because it resembles Mount Fuji.
Kamikōchi is a high mountain valley approximately 18 kilometers in length. The average elevation of the valley floor ranges between roughly 1,400 m (4,600 ft) above sea level at the south end and roughly 1,600 m (5,200 ft) at the northern tip. Kamikōchi is located in the Hida Mountains, the "Northern Alps" of the Japanese Alps. The ...