or Mount Karakuni (1,700m) is a

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...

Kagoshima , abbreviated to , is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern wor ...

and Miyazaki Prefectures,

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. It is part of

Kirishima-Yaku National Park is a national park in Kyūshū, Japan. It is composed of Kirishima-Kagoshima Bay, an area of Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture known for its active volcanoes, volcanic lakes, and onsen. The total area is . History On March 16, 1934 ...

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Karakunidake was named as such from two accounts before the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

: the first of which referred to the mountain's barren surface, and the second which claimed that climbers can see the distant

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across the sea.Mt. Karakunidake - Japan National Tourism Organization
/ref> Some maps erroneously spell its name as "唐国岳" (Karakunidake), with the

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

"唐" in place of "韓".

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Mountains of Kagoshima Prefecture Mountains of Miyazaki Prefecture Kirishima-Yaku National Park Highest points of Japanese national parks {{Miyazaki-geo-stub

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