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  2. List of mountains and hills of Japan by height - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ... Mountains over 1000 meters. Mount Fuji, highest in Japan. Mountain Meters Feet Prefecture Mount Fuji:

  3. Mount Fuji - Wikipedia

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    It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. [1] Mount Fuji last erupted from 1707 to 1708.

  4. List of Japanese prefectures by highest mountain - Wikipedia

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    Ōu Mountains 200 Famous Japanese Mountains Yamagata: Mount Chōkai (Shinzan) 2,236 Hinotodake Mountains 100 Famous Japanese Mountains Fukushima: Mount Hiuchigatake (Shibayasugura) 2,356 Standalone 100 Famous Japanese Mountains Ibaraki: Mount Yamizo: 1,022 Yamizo Mountains 300 Famous Japanese Mountains link: Tochigi: Mount Nikkō-Shirane: 2,578 ...

  5. Mount Fuji in trouble: How Japan’s highest peak fell victim ...

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    Of Mount Fuji’s 10 hiking stations, the fifth (called “Gogome”) is located roughly halfway up the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) mountain. It receives 90% of the mountain’s visitors, most whom ...

  6. Geography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan's highest mountain is Mount Fuji, with an elevation of 3,776 m (12,388 ft). Japan's forest cover rate is 68.55% since the mountains are heavily forested. The only other developed nations with such a high forest cover percentage are Finland and Sweden. [14]

  7. Mount Hotakadake - Wikipedia

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    Mount Okuhotaka (奥穂高岳, Okuhotakadake) is the highest peak in the Hotaka Mountain Range and the third highest in Japan after Mount Fuji and Mount Kita.Its peak at 3,190 m (10,466 ft) is the highest in Nagano and Gifu prefectures.

  8. Japanese Alps - Wikipedia

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    Even now, it is very difficult to cross the steep Hida mountains, one of the world's heaviest snowfall areas, in winter. Therefore, it is considered a historical event in Japan that in the winter of 1584, daimyō Sassa Narimasa's forces crossed over the mountain range over Zara Pass and Harinoki Pass. This event is called "Sarasara-goe ...

  9. Mount Ontake - Wikipedia

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    Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (木曽御嶽山, Kiso Ontake-san), is the 14th highest mountain and second highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at 3,067 m (10,062 ft). [3] It is included in Kyūya Fukada's 1964 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.