are a mountain range in Nagano and

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prefectures in

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. They are also called the and they combine with the

Hida Mountains The , or , is a Japanese mountain range which stretches through Nagano, Toyama and Gifu prefectures. A small portion of the mountains also reach into Niigata Prefecture. William Gowland coined the phrase "Japanese Alps" during his time in Japan, ...

("Northern Alps") and the

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("Southern Alps") to form a group collectively known as the

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Outline

The mountain range consists of granite. The Komagatake Ropeway is on the east side of Mount Kisokoma. A lot of tourists visit the station on the top. The upper part of the mountain range is the tree line, and a lot of

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s grow naturally. Leontopodium shinanense of ''

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'' is endemic around Mount Kisokoma.

Geography

Major peaks

;Foothills * Mount Nenjō (念丈岳), * Mount Nagiso (南木曽岳), *Mount Kazakoshi (Kiso) (風越山), *Mount Kazakoshi (Ena) (風越山),

Rivers

Rivers with headwaters in the Kiso Mountains drain to Ise Bay of the Pacific Ocean. They include: *

Kiso River The is a river in the Chubu region of Japan roughly long, flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying into Ise Bay a short distance away from the city of Nagoya.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005) ...

* Tenryū River File:Kiso Mountains from Mt.Amidadake.jpg, Kiso Mountains seen from east (

Mount Amida Mount Amida is an mountain in Saeki-ku, Hiroshima, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of ...

) File:Cyuo-Alps from Kohideyama wt 2002-10-30.jpg, Kiso Mountains seen from west (Mount Kohide) File:Mount Kisokoma from Mount Sannosawa 1996-09-08.jpg, Mt. Kisokoma and Mt. Hōken seen from

Mount Sannosawa is amongst the Kiso Mountains, located in the Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall. It is composed of Granite, and has a long wide cirque covered in dense vegetation, mainly pine trees. There is the "San ...

File:Mount Hoken from Mount Kazakoshi 2010-4-25.jpg, Mt. Kisokoma and Mt. Hōken seen from Mount Kazakoshi

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