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  2. List of Long-distance Nature Trails (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The purpose of the trail is to allow people to experience the richness of nature, history and culture, to refresh their minds and bodies, and to deepen their understanding of nature conservation through easy, enjoyable, and safe walking on their own feet throughout the four seasons.

  3. Japanese Alps - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Alps have been used as a place of ascetic practice for Buddhists monks and Shugenja since ancient times. [3] From the 1600s to the 1800s, samurai officers of the Kaga domain travelled deep into the Hida Mountains with local hunters and farmers as guides to preserve the timber of the mountains and continued to create maps recording ...

  4. List of three-thousanders in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the Akaishi Mountains ("Southern Alps") are Mount Kita, Mount Aino, Mount Warusawa, Mount Akaishi, Mount Arakawa, Mount Nishinōtori, Mount Shiomi, Mount Senjō and Mount Hijiri. The next tallest mountain is Mount Tsurugi, which has a height of 2,999 m (9,839 ft).

  5. List of mountains and hills of Japan by height - Wikipedia

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    Mt. Nakanodake:Hiking route|Snow Country "List of Japanese mountains" (in Japanese). Geospatial Information Authority of Japan "Japanese Archipelago". Peakbagger.com. Japan Ultra-Prominences; Japan 100 Mountains; Yokosuka City sightseeing,Ōgusuyama

  6. Akaishi Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Englishman Walter Weston introduced the Western world to the Japanese Alps in his book Mountaineering and Exploring in the Japanese Alps. During his visits to Japan, he climbed Akaishi Mountains. Several monuments in his memory have been set up in several places in the Japanese Alps. He climbed the following peaks: 1892 Mount Akaishi - The ...

  7. Chūbu-Sangaku National Park - Wikipedia

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    Chūbu-Sangaku National Park (中部山岳国立公園, Chūbu Sangaku Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in the Chūbu region of Japan. It was established around the Hida Mountains and encompasses parts of Nagano, Gifu, Toyama and Niigata prefectures.

  8. Kiso Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Kiso Mountains (木曽山脈, Kiso Sanmyaku) are a mountain range in Nagano and Gifu prefectures in Japan.They are also called the Central Alps (中央アルプス, Chūō Arupusu) and they combine with the Hida Mountains ("Northern Alps") and the Akaishi Mountains ("Southern Alps") to form a group collectively known as the Japanese Alps.

  9. Mount Yari - Wikipedia

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    Mount Yari (槍ヶ岳, Yari-ga-take) is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. The 3,180-metre-high (10,433 ft) peak lies in the southern part of the Hida Mountains (Northern Alps) of Japan, on the border of Ōmachi and Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. The priest Banryū (1786–1840) founded a temple there.