Chubu(中部)
Chubu(中部) has 192 mountains you can reach using only public transport — trains and buses. 51 of them are among Japan's 100 Famous Mountains. 2 can be climbed on foot straight from the station. Popular choices include Kirigamine, Mt. Aino, Mt. Aka and Mt. Akaishi. Each guide shows the route from the nearest station to the trailhead, with up-to-date bus timetables.
Browse by prefecture: Yamanashi(山梨) (37), Nagano(長野) (28), Toyama(富山) (13), Niigata (7), Ishikawa(石川) (2), Shizuoka(静岡) (2), Gifu(岐阜) (2), Fukui (1) and Aichi (1)
Mountains in Chubu(中部) — Map
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The highest summit in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, the very spot that inspired the old 500-yen Fuji photograph.
A rocky fortress with a Sengoku-era hilltop castle site, offering one of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views over the Katsura River valley and Fuji.
A North Yatsugatake peak accessible by ropeway, characteristically fringed with the wave-pattern dead-tree phenomenon and the lava-field Tsuboniwa garden.
A high peak reached by a grassy ridge walk from the Ōdarumi Pass, welcoming arrivals with a sweeping panorama from Fuji to the southern Alps.
A ropeway viewpoint plateau with a Suzuran lily wetland and a sweeping panorama of Yatsugatake and the northern Alps.
A ten-minute stroll from Yunosawa Pass leads to an alpine flower garden and a sweeping view of Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake.
A Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views peak sheltering a thousand-year-old Yatate cedar on its approach, with a summit view of Fuji and the southern Alps.
The highest peak of the Abe-oku range, alive with Yanagi-ran meadows in August and framing a panorama of the southern Alps and Fuji.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains rich in primeval Buna and Himeshara forest, Amagi Rhododendrons, and vibrant seasonal color.
The highest point of the Ashitaka range with close-up views of Mt. Fuji, and home to the endemic Ashitaka Rhododendron.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains where an open ridge above Daibosatsu Pass reveals a grand panorama of Fuji and the southern Alps.
A solitary peak with a refuge hut near the top, commanding fine views of the northern Alps centered on Hotaka and Yarigatake.
A sacred mountain lined with stone Buddhas, offering panoramic views of the northern Alps and the Zenkoji Plain.
A Yamanashi viewpoint overlooking Yatsugatake and the southern Alps, known also as the place where mountaineer Fukada Kyuya died.
The crowning peak of the Central Alps, reached by ropeway to the flower-filled Senjōshiki Kar and spectacular in all four seasons.
The highest peak in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, a keystone of the Daibosatsu range with a 360-degree view of Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake.
A peak in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with views of Fuji, tied to the legend of Momotarō.
The main peak of Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views site 9, celebrated for its particularly fine view of Fuji from above Ōtsuki.
The highest point of the Misaka range, surveying Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes with changing backdrops of fresh green, autumn leaves, and sea of clouds.
A revered sport-climbing destination of granite cliffs, with an unobstructed Fuji view from the Kaiun summit.
A mountain of extraordinary granite pillars and monoliths, vivid with Shakunage in early summer against views of Yatsugatake and the southern Alps.
One of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with an especially close Fuji vista, popular also for a traverse to neighboring Ōgurasazan.
A gentle Sugadaira peak selected as a flower 100 Famous Mountain, prized for its wildflower meadows and airy ridge walk to Azumayasan.
A multi-summit volcano with 23 peaks and seven lakes, the most accessible 3,000-meter mountain in Japan.
A quiet Shinshu peak with a rocky summit overlooking Yatsugatake, also famed for its Shakunage rhododendron display.
One of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with a superb Fuji vista, popular also for the traverse to neighboring Momokurayama.
A gentle woodland peak above the Sanatsugi Shrine, with seasonal nature all the way up and a view of the Nagoya cityscape from the top.
A sub-1,000-meter peak that punches far above its height with a full 360-degree panorama of Fuji and the southern Alps.
The fourth-ranked Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views summit, a fine viewpoint for Fuji and the southern Alps with Mitsutōge as its foreground.
A perfectly conical Suwa Fuji summit with a sweeping northern panorama of the Yatsugatake range and the northern Alps.
A sacred northern-Alps mountain where ptarmigan roam and snowmelt triggers a sea of alpine flowers, one of Japan's great religious peaks.
A vast lava plateau of open grassland and pastures, with a sweeping panorama of the northern Alps and Fuji from the Ōgashira summit.
The only active volcano in the northern Alps, with fumarolic vents reachable at the summit and a history of eruption that shaped Lake Taishō-ike.
A twin-peaked mountain famed for its silhouette and the golden autumn grass of Sasadaira, Echigo's flower and foliage gem.
A sacred mountain steeped in Amaterasu legend at the southern tip of the Central Alps, with views north and south to distant ranges.
A summit listed twelfth among the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, framing Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake in a 360-degree sweep.
The highest peak of the Shiga Highlands, with an exhilarating ridge walk through bog pools and Dake-Kaнba forest rich in flowers and views.
A quiet viewpoint on the Abe East Ridge, sweeping the eye over Fuji and the southern southern Alps from a grassy summit.
The northern sentinel of the southern Alps, nicknamed the Southern Alps Prince for its striking white granite ridgeline.
A popular Ushiro-Tateyama peak reached by the Alpine Line, where the Hakuba trio and the treacherous Kaeri-no-Ken ridge steal the show.
The highest point of the Amago range, the best westward viewpoint for an unobstructed face-on view of Mt. Fuji.
A peak that shifts from forest to meadow to rocky ridge, capped by the chain-fixed Otori-iwa just below the summit.
An ancient sacred mountain of the Oku-Chichibu ridge, its iconic Gojōiwa pillar towering above, with views to the southern Alps and Yatsugatake.
An accessible one of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains with sweeping Nikkō Day-lilies, Rengeツツジ, autumn grasses, and high wetland.
An isolated peak famous for buried-treasure legends, with a broad summit view of Tsurugi, Tateyama, and Yakushidake.
The highest peak of the Dōshi range, cloaked in primeval Buna forest with a view of Fuji opening near the summit.
A mountain whose broad high alpine wetland and countless bog pools are hailed as a sky-high paradise, magical for summer flowers and autumn grass.
A great isolated sacred mountain with the mystical Ni-no-ike crater lake, its sweeping summit view simply described as unrivaled.
A solitary Central Alps peak reached by a quiet ridge from Senjōshiki, rich in Komaкusa and alpine flora.
The Queen of the Southern Alps, a triple-cirque mountain carpeted with alpine flowers and known for its gentle, welcoming profile.
A mountain that dramatically shifts from mossy primeval forest and bog pools to a hard rocky ridge world at the summit.
A Shugendo sacred peak featuring the harrowing knife-edge Ari-no-towatari and relentless chains, a genuine test of nerve and skill.
A shapely isolated peak known as the Ono Fuji, popular for its views of Hakusan and brilliant autumn foliage.
An active volcano straddling the Nagano-Gunma border, with a spectacular crater-rim view from Kurofuyama on the outer caldera.
The premier viewpoint of the Jonen range, with a full panorama of Yari and the Hotaka massif from the summit.
The dominant peak of the Echigo Sanzan, famous for taki-gumo waterfalls and Nikkō Day-lily meadows on its sweeping ridge.
A sharp rock peak at the southern end of Yatsugatake, with a spectacular panorama from Akadake to Fuji and the southern Alps.
One of Japan's three sacred mountains, a spiritual peak carpeted with alpine flowers beginning with the Hakusan Ichige that bears its name.
A pyramid-shaped peak holding one of Japan's three great snowfields, where summer visitors still crunch across Harinoki Daisekkei.
One of the Kубики Sanzan trio, celebrated for the high alpine wetland garden at Tengu-no-niwa below the summit and its massed Hakusan Kozakura.
A three-summited mountain in the Ushiro-Tateyama range whose south-facing slopes erupt with Komaкusa and Hakusan Furo in early summer.
A perfectly symmetrical pyramid famed throughout the Alps, with a full panorama of Yarigatake and the Hotaka massif from the summit.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in the Oku-Chichibu, its primeval forest cradling the headwaters of three river systems, vivid with Shakunage in season.
A secluded high peak off the main ridge that serves as the finest viewpoint for Kitadake and the southern Alps peaks.
The northernmost peak of the Kiso range, a forest-clad sacred mountain with stone Buddhas and buried-sutra traditions.
A sharp triangle seen from Kamikochi, with the relentless Jūtarō new route leading to a grand Yari-Hotaka panorama at the top.
A secluded world of high alpine wetlands and bog pools at the summit, stunning for autumn grasses and views of the northern Tanigawa range.
A handsome stratovolcano known as the Echigo Fuji, connected by a flower-rich traverse to Hiuchigatake with sweeping views.
An Ushiro-Tateyama peak famous for its Komaкusa colony, where the approach from Ōzawa opens to a full northern-Alps panorama.
A Nichiren sacred mountain celebrated for the Fuji sunrise seen from Keishin-in, reached by a reverent approach of 50 stone-marked stages.
A northern-Alps classic combining Japan's greatest snowfield, sweeping flower meadows, and the optional Hakuba Yari hot spring on a traverse.
A Togakushi sacred ridge climbed via the Mune-tsuki-Hacchō pitch, with a final rocky crest opening to a grand panorama.
Called the second Tanigawa-dake of the remote Akiyamago, this peak tests experts with the Razor Rock and the precipitous Kamiori Ridge.
Called the Queen of the Alps for its white granite ridge adorned with Komaкusa, the classic gateway mountain to the northern Alps.
The most popular route up Japan's highest mountain, ascending via the well-equipped Yoshida trailhead.
A celebrated peak in the Ushiro-Tateyama range rewarding climbers with rocky ridges, alpine flower meadows, and wide-open views.
A remote Echigo peak said to be the hardest single-day 100 Famous Mountain, crowned by an alpine wetland, bog pools, and the iconic Tamago stone.
A three-peaked range of white sand ridges, towering boulders, cascades, and the iconic Obelisk, with commanding views of Kitadake and Fuji.
A Yatsugatake summit guarding the traverse to Akadake and Tengudake, dramatic for the massive cliff formations on its north face.
A heavyweight peak carrying Japan's only year-round snowfield just 20 km from the sea, with a grand panorama from the high ridge.
Japan's second-highest peak and the southern Alps champion, stunning for its mix of snowfields, flower gardens, and sheer rock walls.
The western anchor of the Hotaka range, accessible by ropeway to 2,000 m, with tense rocky scrambling beyond the Doppyo notch.
A demanding peak deep in the Akiyamago valley, treasured for quiet views of Naebasan and the Tanigawa range.
The hardest peak on a standard route in Japan, with its Kani-no-Yokobai and Tatebai fixed chains delivering a supremely rewarding summit.
A majestic Ura-Ginza peak with sweeping glacial cirques and wide-open views, one of the northern Alps' grandest profiles.
A southern Yatsugatake rocky-ridge treasure of alpine flora, with a chain-fixed crest continuing the traverse to Akadake and Iogadake.
Japan's third-highest summit, offering sweeping ridge views alongside Kitadake in the southern Alps.
The fourth-highest peak in the southern Alps, a massive mountain that embodies the name of the Akaishi range.
An elegant isolated peak shaped like a wide-brimmed hat, known above all for the unforgettable sunset Yari-Hotaka view from the mountain hut.
A high tri-prefecture-border peak on the ridge to Sukurodake, sweeping Yari, Hotaka, and the Kurobe headwaters in one view.
The southernmost of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, a remote peak where the white limestone Hikari-iwa glows at sunset in the deep southern Alps.
The second-highest peak in the Central Alps after Kisokoma, a demanding granite ridge with views of the southern Alps and Ontake.
A high Ushiro-Tateyama peak north of Hakuba, enchanting traversers with ridge-wide flower meadows and a panorama stretching to the Sea of Japan.
The crowning peak of the Yatsugatake range, rewarding climbers with a rocky ridge and a sweeping 360-degree panorama.
A route up Japan's highest peak via the Gotenba and須走口trailheads, celebrated for the exhilarating sand-run descent.
A 3,000-meter peak deep in the southern Alps, captivating climbers with untouched primeval forest and majestic mountain scenery.
A soaring cluster of peaks led by Okuhotakadake, Japan's third-highest, spectacular for summer alpine flora and Karasawa's autumn foliage.
A graceful twin-peaked mountain in the Ushiro-Tateyama range that holds Japan's only confirmed glaciers, with superb summer wildflowers.
The northernmost Hotaka summit, home to Japan's highest mountain hut, with an overwhelming close-up view of Ō-Kiretto and Yarigatake.
A key peak on the Ura-Ginza route, holding one of the northern Alps' most beautiful glacial cirques and alpine flower gardens.
A gently sandy central summit on the Tateyama traverse, flanked by the Kuranosuke snowfield and commanding mountain views.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains standing alone in the central southern Alps, a deep-mountain panorama that rewards the long approach over Sanbutu Pass.
The Spear of the Northern Alps, whose thrusting summit silhouette is the symbol of Japan's high mountains and the aspiration of countless climbers.
A remote peak in the innermost northern Alps, with a reddish-brown slope and a primal panorama of the Kurobe headwaters.
A great mountain cluster of three summits in the central southern Alps, crowned by the panoramic Waru-sawadake.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains at the heart of the Ura-Ginza, with a singular panorama of Yarigatake, Hotaka, and Kurobegoro.
The centerpiece of the Ura-Ginza traverse, where the Washiba-ike pond just below the summit with Yarigatake behind it is the route's finest scene.
A solitary peak on the quiet Senko Ridge, deep in the southern Alps wrapped in dense forest.
A quiet peak overlooking the Omote-Ginza traverse, where views of Yari and Hotaka unfold in stillness.
A ridge summit on the Ushiro-Tateyama range with sweeping views of Tateyama and Tsurugi across Lake Kurobe.
A sharp peak overlooking Lake Okutadami, with the dramatic Maegura rocky ridge leading to wide-open summit views.
A quiet Echigo peak above Lake Tagokura, known for its early-summer Himesayuri lily colonies.
The highest point of the Hayakawa Ridge, a rocky summit with a sweeping view from Kitadake to Fuji.
A commanding isolated peak east of the Echigo Plain, with ridge views of the Iide range and Sumon-dake.
A twin-peaked summit that forms part of the Tateyama trio, offering an outstanding close-up view of Tsurugi-dake from its north peak.
A solitary peak deep in the southern Alps, reached by a long ridge walk through untouched primeval forest.
A peak in the Oku-Mino highlands bearing a Dainichi Buddha statue, with a direct view of the Hakusan range.
A beloved peak at the northern end of the Iide range, treasured for its sky-high flower meadows and expansive views from the hut.
A gently grassy summit offering a sweeping view of Enadake, the Central Alps, and the southern Alps.
A summit meadow with a 360-degree panorama taking in the northern Alps, Lake Suwa, Yatsugatake, and Fuji all at once.
One of the Echigo Sanzan long venerated as a sacred mountain, with a dramatic ridge of continuous fixed chains on the eight peaks.
A quiet satellite peak beside Shiroumadake, whose sharp helmet profile stands out impressively when viewed from Asahidake or Yukikuradake.
The southern anchor of the Hakuba trio, with Japan's highest-yield natural hot spring, Hakuba Yari Onsen, bubbling from its east slope.
A grassland summit listed third among the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, sweeping in Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake in one glance.
A Central Alps peak flanking Utsugi-dake, with the Kisodono-koshi hut and the legendary Kiso Yoshinaka water source as key waypoints.
A broad high summit on the Omote-Ginza route commanding a sweeping view from Yari and Hotaka to Tateyama and the Ushiro-Tateyama range.
A key summit on the Kisokoma–Utsugi traverse, with the turquoise Hinokio pond and triangular hut just below the top.
A high peak at the start of the Shirane South Ridge where sweeping views take in Ainodake, Shiomidake, and Fuji.
A mountain studded with wetland, unusual rocks, and cascades, celebrated as a Hokuriku foliage destination enjoyable in every season.
A volcano that gave birth to Kumonodaira, commanding a sweeping northern-Alps panorama of Suishodake, Washbadake, and Yakushidake.
The northern anchor of the Hōō Sanzan, dominated by the towering granite Obelisk spire thrusting into the sky.
The highest of the Hōō Sanzan, its bright ridge of white sand and Haіmаtsu opening to close-up views of Fuji and Kitadake.
A Hida viewpoint with a grassy summit taking in the northern Alps, Hakusan, and Ontake, brightened by Sasayuri lilies and autumn color.
A glacial cirque of immense scale, famous as Japan's premier autumn foliage site when rowan trees paint the basin vivid red.
A high peak just above the Hotakadake mountain hut, offering one of the northern Alps' finest views of Yarigatake with minimal effort.
The highest peak on Sado Island, where the great Osado traverse from the Donden Plateau delivers flower meadows and a grand panorama.
A remote high peak deep in the southern Alps, waiting beyond Shiomidake in the silence of the Senko Ridge.
Niigata's highest peak on the ridge between Hakuba-Oike and Shiroumadake, where white ptarmigan and alpine flowers greet the Hakuba trio.
A quiet southern Central Alps peak of white sand and Haіmаtsu ridge, serving as the southern base for traverses toward Utsugi-dake.
A supremely peaceful southern-Alps viewpoint at the tip of the Kōmori Ridge, surveying Fuji, Shiomidake, and the Arakawa trio.
A sacred pass mountain where the dramatic blue Aogare landslide looms close, with quiet views deep into the southern-Alps backcountry.
A remote northern-Alps plateau of lava and scattered bog pools called Japan's last hidden realm, where a succession of garden-like landscapes unfolds.
A Hida sacred mountain venerating the Ichinomiya deity, scattered with ancient megaliths and the inner shrine Ama-no-Iwato.
A twin-peaked summit on the Shirane South Ridge, offering a peaceful view of the southern southern-Alps skyline from its Haіmаtsu top.
One of the North Shinshu Five Peaks, where the sub-summit Daimyōjin-dake opens a panorama of Lake Nojiri, Myōkōsan, and the northern Shinshu hills.
A 3,000-meter high summit at the northern end of Ō-Kiretto, where the Yari-Hotaka ridge feels thrillingly close on the traverse.
A secluded transit summit on the Ura-Ginza Takemura new route, made special by the steep climb and narrow ridge leading to it.
A peak north of Sukurodake hut, a quick detour that serves as a fine viewpoint over the western Kama Ridge leading to Yarigatake.
A steep climb up timber ladders and stairs ends in a view from the Marishiten lookout through ancient Hinoki forest.
A 3,000-meter ridge peak forming part of the Yari-Hotaka traverse, where the great massif feels thrillingly immediate.
A rounded grassy high peak between Akashidake and Hijiri-dake, offering a sweeping view of the Arakawa trio from the traverse.
The highest of the Echigo Sanzan, a formidable peak whose deep-snow snowfields and steep rocky ridges draw determined climbers.
Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views site 5, popular for the traverse to Tsurune-yama and the descent to Kosuge-no-yu hot spring.
An active Kубики volcano with raw fumarolic summit terrain, striking for its views of Hiuchigatake and the Sea of Japan.
A mountain of legend where twin snow silhouettes appear on the slopes each spring, sheltering Buna forest and views of Hakusan and the northern Alps.
A mid-level Niigata peak beloved for its sweeping view of the Iide range and the cheerful Youth Bell on the summit.
An Omote-Ginza high peak where the Hyütte Nishidake terrace frames the perfect ridge line running from Yarigatake to Tsubakuro.
The highest peak of Gifu and Fukui prefectures, crowned by a first-order triangulation point and the Hakusan Gongen shrine, with views of Hakusan and Ontake.
The jagged saw-tooth ridge at the northern tip of the southern Alps, one of Japan's hardest routes reserved for experienced mountaineers.
A ridge peak north of Kasagatake with a striking collapsed face, offering a forest-line viewpoint for Yari and Hotaka.
A high summit just 25 minutes from the Yarigatake Sansō hut, a traverse viewpoint with the Yari spire looming directly overhead.
A secluded southern-Alps ridge summit with views of Shiomidake and Fuji, memorable for its alpine flower gardens.
A low Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views peak blanketed with about 3,000 cherry trees in spring, a rare combination of flower viewing and Fuji panorama.
A Shirane South Ridge Haіmаtsu summit offering peaceful ridge walking with views of Fuji and Shiomidake.
Japan's third-highest peak and the northern Alps' supreme rocky spire, with a panorama taking in Yarigatake and the Jandarm.
A quiet rocky summit between Akashidake and Hijiri-dake, rewarding with outstanding views of the southern-Alps main ridge.
A two-summited peak above Hozumi Shrine, with views of Suruga Bay and the southern Alps from both Yakushidake and Monjudake.
Named for its three great rock faces, this peak serves as a viewpoint for the Hakusan range and the northern Alps.
A 360-degree viewpoint listed twelfth in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, framing Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake.
A fearsome spire in the southern Central Alps, notorious for its crumbling narrow ridge and relentless chains.
The central peak of the Hakuba trio, distinguished by its asymmetric profile and the massive east-face cliff rising from the traverse.
A grassy bog-pool summit where Nikkō Day-lilies carpet the ground in summer and the northern Alps appear on the horizon.
A rocky peak beyond the Harinoki snowfield with a dramatic view of Tateyama and Tsurugi across the blue expanse of Lake Kurobe.
A broad flat summit plateau commanding an uninterrupted view of Yarigatake, Hotaka, and Kasagatake, a key junction on northern-Alps traverses.
A Shūrei Fugaku peak offering a Fuji view from the twin-summit traverse with Kuradake-yama, also tied to the Momotarō legend.
A Tateyama ridge viewpoint facing Tsurugi-dake directly, where the close-up rock faces create iconic mountain-photography moments.
A hidden gem above Ōtsuki selected as number one in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, with a unique rocky summit perfectly framing Fuji.
A southern-Alps peak that exists only on the main ridge between Hijiri-dake and Akashidake, a true traverse-only summit.
The highest peak in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views along the Daibosatsu South Ridge, combining Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake in one panorama.
A quiet ridge summit just beyond the Jonen saddle, with an intimate view of Yarigatake and the Azumino farmland below.
A Japan Sea isolated peak with a Yakushi-dō shrine at the top, surveying both Sado Island and the Myōkō range.