is an active

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 ...

located in

Daisetsuzan National Park , or Taisetsuzan is located in the mountainous center of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō. At , Daisetsuzan is the largest national park in Japan, and is approximately the size of Kanagawa Prefecture. Daisetsuzan, meaning "great snowy mo ...

Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ...

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 ...

. It is the tallest volcano of the Tokachi Volcanic Group, with a height of . It is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan. There are four hiking trails to the peak of Tokachidake. Below is a hut, a campground and a natural hot spring (

onsen In Japan, are the country's hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. As a volcanically active country, Japan has many onsens scattered throughout all of its major islands. There are approximately 25,000 hot ...

Mount Tokachi from Mount Biei 1998-08-09

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Tokachidake
- Japan Meteorological Agency
Tokachidake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan
- Japan Meteorological Agency

- Geological Survey of Japan * Stratovolcanoes of Japan Active volcanoes Volcanoes of Hokkaido Mountains of Hokkaido Biei, Hokkaido {{Hokkaido-geo-stub

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