is a range of

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in central

Izu Peninsula The is a large mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan. Formerly known as Izu Province, Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture. The peninsul ...

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

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 ...

, forming the border between Izu City and Higashi-Izu Town. It is also referred to as the . Mount Amagi Relief Map, SRTM-1

The Amagi mountains have several peaks, the tallest of which are at , at , and at . There are several hiking routes to the top. Flora in the area include

rhododendron ''Rhododendron'' (; from Ancient Greek ''rhódon'' "rose" and ''déndron'' "tree") is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are nati ...

s, Japanese andromeda, ''stewartia monadelpha'' and Siebold's beech. Many ships of the

Imperial Japanese Navy The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender ...

were named after it, including a corvette, a battlecruiser and an aircraft carrier. Amagi is listed as one of the

100 Famous Japanese Mountains is a book written in 1964 by mountaineer and author Kyūya Fukada.Hyakumeizan, Hiking Japan!
. Japan ...

in a book composed in 1964 by

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Kyūya Fukada was a Japanese writer and mountaineer active during the Shōwa period in Japan. Early life Kyūya was born in what is now Kaga city, Ishikawa prefecture. He attended the Fujishima High School, followed by the preparatory school for the Tokyo I ...

.Hyakumeizan, Hiking Japan!
. Japan Gazetteer.

Gallery

File:Mount_Amagi_20120610.jpg, View from the north File:Mount Amagi 20120218.jpg, View from the south File:Izu city, Ikadaba, Wasabi fields 20111002 C.jpg, Mount Amagi is a well-known producer of

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References

External links

Amagi San
- Geological Survey of Japan

- Izu city official
Hiking Map
- Izu city official (web.archive.org) Amagi Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park Amagi Volcanoes of Honshū {{shizuoka-geo-stub