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Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan - Geological Survey of Japan; Volcano on Google Map - Geological Survey of Japan; The National Catalogue of the Active Volcanoes in Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency; 日本の主な山岳標高 (Elevation of Principal Mountains in Japan) - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (in Japanese)
Mount Aso (阿蘇山, Aso-san) or Aso Volcano is the largest active volcano in Japan and among the largest in the world. Common use relates often only to the somma volcano in the centre of Aso Caldera. It stands in Aso Kujū National Park in Kumamoto Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu.
Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, Japanese: [ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ] ⓘ) is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft 3 in). It is the tallest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra ...
Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed 14,524 people in Japan's worst volcanic-related disaster .
Mount Asama (浅間山, Asama-yama) is an active complex volcano in central Honshū, the main island of Japan.The volcano is the most active on Honshū. [3] The Japan Meteorological Agency classifies Mount Asama as rank A. [4] It stands 2,568 metres (8,425 ft) above sea level on the border of Gunma and Nagano prefectures. [5]
Mount Usu (有珠山, Usu-zan [3]) is an active stratovolcano in the Shikotsu-Tōya National Park, Hokkaido, Japan. It has erupted four times since 1900: in 1910 (which created Meiji-shinzan [4]), 1944–45 (which created Shōwa-shinzan), August 7, 1977, [5] and on March 31, 2000. To the north lies Lake Tōya.
Sakurajima (Japanese: 桜島, lit. ' Cherry Blossom Island ') is an active stratovolcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. [2] The lava flows of the 1914 eruption connected it with the Ōsumi Peninsula. [3] It is the most active volcano in Japan. [4]
Nishinoshima is located about 130 km to the west of the nearest of the Ogasawara islands, hence the name, but the other Ogasawara island groups are aligned north-south. The nearest of the other Volcano islands is over 270 km away, but Nishinoshima is on the alignment of the Volcano islands. It was formed by ash from a underwater volcanic eruption.