Yamanashi(山梨)
Yamanashi(山梨) has 48 mountains you can reach using only public transport — trains and buses. 11 of them are among Japan's 100 Famous Mountains. 1 can be climbed on foot straight from the station. Popular choices include Mt. Aino, Mt. Daibosatsu, Mt. Fuji - Gotemba & Subashiri Trailheads and Mt. Fuji - Yoshida Trailhead. Each guide shows the route from the nearest station to the trailhead, with up-to-date bus timetables.
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Bordering prefectures include Nagano(長野), Tokyo(東京), Kanagawa(神奈川), Saitama(埼玉) and Shizuoka(静岡).
Mountains in Yamanashi(山梨) — Map
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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 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.
A Yamanashi viewpoint overlooking Yatsugatake and the southern Alps, known also as the place where mountaineer Fukada Kyuya died.
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.
One of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with a superb Fuji vista, popular also for the traverse to neighboring Momokurayama.
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 summit listed twelfth among the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, framing Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake in a 360-degree sweep.
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.
The highest peak of the Dōshi range, cloaked in primeval Buna forest with a view of Fuji opening near the summit.
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 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 most popular route up Japan's highest mountain, ascending via the well-equipped Yoshida trailhead.
Japan's second-highest peak and the southern Alps champion, stunning for its mix of snowfields, flower gardens, and sheer rock walls.
Japan's third-highest summit, offering sweeping ridge views alongside Kitadake in the southern Alps.
A route up Japan's highest peak via the Gotenba and須走口trailheads, celebrated for the exhilarating sand-run descent.
A high peak at the start of the Shirane South Ridge where sweeping views take in Ainodake, Shiomidake, and Fuji.
A twin-peaked summit on the Shirane South Ridge, offering a peaceful view of the southern southern-Alps skyline from its Haіmаtsu top.
Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views site 5, popular for the traverse to Tsurune-yama and the descent to Kosuge-no-yu hot spring.
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.
A 360-degree viewpoint listed twelfth in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views, framing Fuji, the southern Alps, and Yatsugatake.
A Shūrei Fugaku peak offering a Fuji view from the twin-summit traverse with Kuradake-yama, also tied to the Momotarō legend.