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Mount Hiuchigatake

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Mount Hiuchigatake
Mount Hiuchigatake. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mount Hiuchi, also Hiuchigatake (Japanese: 燧ヶ岳) is a 2,356 m-tall (7,730 ft) stratovolcano in Oze National Park, and located in Hinoemata Village, Minami-Aizu gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This is the highest mountain in Tōhoku region. The volcano rises in the north of Lake Ozenuma. It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.