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Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

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 Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. A part of the Kirigamine volcano and is the highest point. The north-west side is covered with forest. The south-east side of Kurumayama is grassy which allows easy paragliding. The car access to the bottom of Kurumayama does not require the four-wheel drive, but at heavy snow, snow chains may help a lot. File:Mount Kuruma 20140929.jpg, East side of Kurumayama File:KirigamineFromSouth.jpg, January File:Kurumayama Kogen14s3s4592.jpg, Small

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on the summit File:Kurumayama Kogen11s2s4592.jpg, JMA's weather radar on the summit File:Tateshina07.JPG, East view from the top of Mount Kuruma. in the center.

Mount Tateshina 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 . This mountain is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. Outline Mount Tateshi ...

in the background.

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