is a mountain located on the border of

Futtsu 260px, Futtsu City Hall is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 42,476 in 18,115 households and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Futtsu is l ...

and

Kyonan 250px, View of Hota from Mount Nokogiri is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 7,409 in 3543 households and a population density of 160 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography ...

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

. Mount Saga has an

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of and is one of the peaks of the

Mineoka Mountain District is an area in the Bōsō Hill Range in the southern part of Chiba Prefecture. The Mineoka Mountain District runs along an east–west line across the southern part of the Bōsō Peninsula from the southern bank of the Kamo River (Chiba Prefectur ...

of the

Bōsō Hill Range The is a mountain range on the Bōsō Peninsula of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The highest point in the Bōsō Mountain Range is at Mount Atago, with an altitude of . The hill range runs from roughly in a line from Mobara or Ōamishirasato to Kisa ...

Narcissus cultivation

Mount Saga is home to one of the largest areas of

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flower cultivation in Japan.嵯峨山
The flowers are grown in

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plots along the slopes of the mountain, mostly those facing Kyonan. The plantings are primarily of the ''Nihon'' variety of narcissus, which probably originated in south China and came to Japan via the

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. Mount Saga has been used for narcissus cultivation from at least the

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1603–1868. The

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(1759–1829), administrator of

Shirakawa Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in southern Mutsu Province. It was centered on Komine Castle in what is now the city of Shirakawa, Fukushima. Its most famous ruler was Matsudaira Sadanobu, the archite ...

in present-day

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, visited the area in 1811 and noted the mountain and its narcissus cultivation in his diary. Cultivation has spread to the peak of Mount Saga. The

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word for narcissus is ''suisen'', and the summit of Mount Saga is known as Suisen Peak. The mountain is a popular

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destination from late December to early February when the narcissus bloom.

Hiking routes

The peak of Mount Saga can be reached from either Futtsu or Kyonan. *Kyonan– JR East's

Uchibō Line The is a railway line operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) adjacent to Tokyo Bay, paralleling the western (i.e., inner) shore of the Bōsō Peninsula. It connects Soga Station in the city of Chiba to Awa-Kamogawa Station in the ...

Hota Station to Kyonan Chōei Bus, Kobota Stop. Suisen Peak is an hour and a half hike from the bus stop. *Futtsu–Suisen Peak is an hour-and-a-half to two-hour hike from the Kyonan-Hota Interchange on the

Futtsu Tateyama Road The is a 2-laned toll road in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is owned and operated by East Nippon Expressway Company. Overview The route is officially designated as a bypass for National Route 127, however it is functionally an extension of the T ...

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