Mount Bunagatake

Mount Bunagatake
武奈ヶ岳
A View of Mount Bunagatake from Mount Goza
Elevation	1,214.4 m (3,984 ft)
Location
Location	Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan
Range	Hira Mountains
Coordinates	35°15′N 135°53′E / 35.25°N 135.883°E / 35.25; 135.883

Mount Bunagatake (武奈ヶ岳, Bunagatake^?) is a 1,214.4 m (3,984 ft) high mountain in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. This mountain is one of the 200 famous mountains in Japan and also one of the Kinki 100 mountains.

Outline

Mount Bunagatake is the highest mountain of Hira Mountains. Hira mountains consist of three parts, Oku-Hira, Kita-Hira and Minami-Hira, literally, ‘Deep Hira’, ‘North Hira’, and ‘South Hira’. Mount Bunagatake belongs to Oku-Hira, and on the Mesozoic strata as other mountains of Oku-Hira. This mountain is also a part of Biwako Quasi-National Park, and visitors can enjoy the almost 360 degree panorama view from the top.

Access

From Hira Station to the middle of this mountain, Hira Chair Lift, which was made in 1960, and Hira Ropeway opened in 1961, connected until 2004 with a Bus route by Kojyaku Bus. However the chair lift and the ropeway were removed in 2004, and the Bus route was also discontinued after that.

• Hira Station of Kosei Line
• Bomura Bus Stop of Kyoto Bus

References

• the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan
• Biwako Quasi-National Park
• ‘Hirasankei Bunagatake’

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  Top of Mount Bunagatake

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  West view from the top

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  A view of the middle of the mountain