also Suwa Fuji is a
complex volcano
A complex volcano, also called a compound volcano or a volcanic complex, is a mixed landform consisting of related volcanic centers and their associated lava flows and pyroclastic rock. They may form due to changes in eruptive habit or in t ...
located on the border of the municipalities of
Chino and
Tateshina in
Nagano Prefecture,
Japan.
It has an
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Ver ...
of . This mountain is one of the
100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Outline
Mount Tateshina is a typical complex volcano. About the origin of the name of this mountain, ''tate'' means
water-pepper
''Persicaria hydropiper'' (synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Polygonum hydropiper''), also known as water pepper, marshpepper knotweed, arse smart or tade, is a plant of the family Polygonaceae. A widespread species, ''Persicaria hydropiper'' is found ...
, and ''shina'' means steps or high places. So ''Tateshina'' is literally a high mountain of water-peppers. The other name of this mountain ''Suwa Fuji'', literally, ''Mount Fuji of the
Suwa region''.
Mount Tateshina is an important part of
Yatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park
is a quasi-national park on Honshū in Japan. It is rated a protected landscape (category V) according to the IUCN. The park includes the Yatsugatake Mountains and the surrounding lava plateaus: Tateshina plateau, Kirigamine, and Utsukushigahar ...
.
Route
Routes to climb up Mount Tateshina are well-developed. The most popular route is to start from the Nanagome parking lot.
Gallery
File:Tateshina4.jpg, Ruin of the volcanic crater of Mount Tateshina
File:Tateshina1.jpg, Top of Mount Tateshina
File:Yatsugatake from tateshina.jpg, Yatsugatake Mountains from Mount Tateshina
File:Tateshina5.jpg, Mount Tateshina from the middle of the mountain
File:Tengudake7.JPG, Mount Tateshina from Mount Tengu
File:Akadake6.JPG, Mount Tateshina from Mount Aka
File:Iodake3.JPG, Mount Tateshina from Mount Iō
File:Tateshina03.JPG, Mount Tateshina in August
See also
*
List of volcanoes in Japan
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Japan. An Orange background indicates a volcano considered active by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Hokkaido
Honshū
Izu Islands
Ogasawara Archipelago
The Ogasawara Archipelag ...
*
List of mountains in Japan
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height.
Mountains over 1000 meters
Mountains under 1000 meters
As the generally accepted definition of a mountain (versus a hill) is 1000 m of height and 500 m of pro ...
References
Shirakaba Kogen HotelOfficial Home Page of the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan*
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Tateshina
Volcanoes of Honshū
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 ...
Tateshina
Complex volcanoes