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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:
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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.