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Mount Ontake

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Mount Ontake (Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (Kiso Ontake-san), is the 14th-highest mountain and second-highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at 3,067 m (10, 062 ft). It is included in Kyūya Fukada's 1964 book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

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