Mount Sannosawa

Mount Sannosawa
三ノ沢岳
Mount Sannosawa and Sannosawa cirque on east side seen from the direction of Mount Hōken
Elevation	2,846 m (9,337 ft)
Location
Location	Kiso District Japan
Range	Kiso Mountains
Coordinates	35°46′00″N 137°47′38″E / 35.7666667°N 137.79389°E / 35.7666667; 137.79389Coordinates: 35°46′00″N 137°47′38″E / 35.7666667°N 137.79389°E / 35.7666667; 137.79389
Climbing
Easiest route	Komagatake Ropeway

Mount Sannosawa (三ノ沢岳, Sannosawa-dake^?) is amongst the Kiso Mountains, located in the Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is 2,846 m (9,337 ft) tall. It is composed of Granite, and has a 120 m (394 ft) long 30 m (98 ft) wide cirque covered in dense vegetation, mainly pine trees.^[1] There is the "Sannosawa cirque". Glacial expansion has created a gully, just underneath the cirque.^[1] A lot of Alpine plant grow naturally. Name River and Ina River (Tributary of Kiso River) that become the sources flow to the Ise Bay of Pacific Ocean. There is the tributary called "Sannosawa" around Mount Sannosawa. Komagatake Ropeway is used to climb.^[2]

Scenery of Mount Sannosawa

Mount Sannosawa seen from Mount Hōken	Mount Sannosawa seen from Mount Hinokio	Mount Sannosawa seen from southwest	Mount Kisokoma and Mount Hōken seen from Mount Sannosawa

See also

• Kiso Mountains
• List of mountains in Japan

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Horie, Shoji (1972), Paleolimnology of Lake Biwa and the Japanese Pleistocene (5 ed.), Kyoto University, p. 12, http://books.google.com/?id=2ssJAQAAIAAJ&q=Sannosawa-dake&dq=Sannosawa-dake 
2. ^ "Mountains information" (in Japanese). Komagane Tourist Association. http://www.kankou-komagane.com/tree5/mountains.html. Retrieved 2011-04-24.