Mount_Tateshina

Mount Tateshina

Mount Tateshina

Complex volcano on the island of Honshu,Japan

Mount Tateshina (蓼科山, Tateshina-yama) also Suwa Fuji is a complex volcano located on the border of the municipalities of Chino and Tateshina in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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It has an elevation of 2,530 m (8,301 ft). This mountain is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

Outline

Mount Tateshina is a typical complex volcano. About the origin of the name of this mountain, tate means water-pepper, and shina means steps or high places. So Tateshina is literally a high mountain of water-peppers. The other name of this mountain Suwa Fuji, literally, Mount Fuji of the Suwa region.

Mount Tateshina is an important part of Yatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park.

Route

Routes to climb up Mount Tateshina are well-developed. The most popular route is to start from the Nanagome parking lot.

  • Ruin of the volcanic crater of Mount Tateshina
  • Top of Mount Tateshina
  • Yatsugatake Mountains from Mount Tateshina
  • Mount Tateshina from the middle of the mountain
  • Mount Tateshina from Mount Tengu
  • Mount Tateshina from Mount Aka
  • Mount Tateshina from Mount Iō
  • Mount Tateshina in August

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Tateshina.
  • Shirakaba Kogen Hotel
  • Official Home Page of the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan
  • "Yokodake". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
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