Mount Hyōno

Mount Hyōno
氷ノ山
A View of Mt. Hyōno
Elevation	1,509.6 m (4,953 ft)
Pronunciation	[çjoːnoseɴ]
Location
Location	On the border of Yabu, Hyōgo, and Wakasa, Tottori, in Japan
Range	Chūgoku Mountains
Coordinates	35°21′14″N 134°30′49″E / 35.35389°N 134.51361°E / 35.35389; 134.51361
Geology
Type	Upheaved submarine volcano

Mount Hyōno (氷ノ山, Hyōno-sen^?) is a mountain on the border of Yabu, Hyōgo Prefecture, and Wakasa, Tottori Prefecture, in Japan. It is the highest mountain in Hyōgo Prefecture. This mountain is one of the 200 famous mountains in Japan. Other names of this mountain are Sugano-sen, Hyōzan, Hyōno-yama, Kōrino-yama.

Outline

Mount Hyōno is estimated as an upheaved submarine volcano which erupted 3 million years ago with Mount Naki and Torokawa-daira higland. This mountain is the second highest mountain in Chūgoku Mountains, and also the second highest in Honshū west of Osaka Prefecture. This mountain is in the Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park. This mountain is also selected as one of the 100 untrodden areas in Japan.

Access

• Fukusada Bus Stop of Zentan Bus

Gallery

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  Mount Hyōno from northeast

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  Mount Hyōno from north

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  A religious object in Mount Hyōno

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  Fudo Waterfall in Mount Hyōno

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  A rock on the route to the top of Mount Hyōno from northMount Tanigawa from south

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  The top of Mount Hyōno from north

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  Southside view from the top of Mount Hyōno

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  The top of Mount Hyōno

References

• Ministry of Environment of Japan
• Official Home Page of the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan