Mount Kongō | |
Other Name: | 金剛山 Kongō-san |
Photo Alt: | Mount Kongō viewed from Mount Yamato Katsuragi |
Map: | Japan |
Map Alt: | Location in Japan of Mount Kongō in Japan |
Location: | Mount Kongō is located between Chihayaakasaka and Gose, Japan |
Coordinates: | 34.4194°N 135.6731°W |
Elevation M: | 1125 |
Translation: | Vajra Mountain |
Language: | Japanese |
Range: | Kongō Range |
is a 1125m (3,691feet) mountain in the Kongō Range in the Kawachi region of Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan.[1] It is near Mount Yamato Katsuragi.
The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.