Mount Hyōno Explained

Mount Hyōno
Other Name:氷ノ山
Elevation M:1509.6
Listing:Mountains of Japan
Range:Chūgoku Mountains
Language:Japanese
Pronunciation:pronounced as /ja/
Country:Japan
Subdivision1 Type:Prefectures
Settlement Type:City/Town
Map:Japan Hyogo Prefecture#Japan Tottori Prefecture#Japan
Label Position:right#left#right
Coordinates:35.3539°N 134.5136°W
Type:Upheaved submarine volcano
Fetchwikidata:ALL

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 Suga-no-sen, Hyō-zan, Hyō-no-yama, Kōri-no-yama.

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Mount Hyōno is estimated as an upheaved submarine volcano which erupted three million years ago with Mount Naki and Torokawa-daira highland. 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.

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