, also is a mountain in the Daikō Mountain Range on the border between the prefectures of Mie and

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. Its top is the highest point in Mie at . Walking trails from the Nara side start from a car park at about 1,400 metres. The mountain is famous for wild deer, and also for wild birds, especially wrens and

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s, as well as treecreepers and woodpeckers. In 1980, an area of 36,000 hectares in the region of Mount Ōdaigahara and

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was designated a

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Man and the Biosphere Reserve. The mountain was also selected by the

Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun The (lit. ''Tokyo Daily News'') was a newspaper printed in Tokyo, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of ...

and

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newspapers as one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan in 1927. It was referenced on American indie folk band

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's 2017 song " Third of May / Ōdaigahara".

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