Mount Tateshina
Mount Tateshina | |
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蓼科山 | |
File:Tateshinayama-fuyu.JPG
Mount Tateshina in Winter (December 2008)
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Highest point | |
Elevation | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
Listing | 100 Famous Japanese Mountains |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Naming | |
Translation | high mountain of water-peppers (Japanese) |
Geography | |
Location | Honshū, Japan |
Parent range | Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Complex volcano |
Last eruption | Unknown |
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.
It has an elevation of 2,530 m (8,301 ft). This mountain is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
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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.
Gallery
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Top of Mount Tateshina
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Yatsugatake from tateshina.jpg
Yatsugatake Mountains from Mount Tateshina
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Ruin of the volcanic crater of Mount Tateshina
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Tateshina5.jpg
Mount Tateshina from the middle of the mountain
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Mount Tateshina from Mount Tengu
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Akadake6.JPG
Mount Tateshina from Mount Aka
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Mount Tateshina from Mount Iō
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Tateshina03.JPG
Mount Tateshina in August
See also
References
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