Mt. Ontake（御嶽山, Ontakesan）
| Elevation | 3067 m |
|---|---|
| Classification | 100 Famous Mountains of Japan |
| Location | Nagano Pref. (長野県 木曽郡) |
| Coordinates | 35.89278, 137.48028 |
Highlights of Mt. Ontake
- Selected as one of the 100 Famous Mountains of Japan
- Elevation 3067 m
- Located in Nagano Pref.
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About Mt. Ontake
Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (木曽御嶽山, 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.
Description
Mt. Ontake is located around 100 km (62 mi) northeast of Nagoya, and around 200 km (120 mi) west of Tokyo, at the borders of Kiso and Ōtaki, Nagano and Gero, Gifu. The volcano has five volcanic crater lakes, with Ni no Ike (二ノ池) at 2,905 m (9,531 ft) being the highest mountain lake in Japan.
Ontake is a major sacred mountain, and following shugendō practices, actors and artists have gone to the mountain to put themselves into trances to get divine inspiration for their creative activities.
Eruptions
Ontake was thought to be inactive until October 1979, when it underwent a series of explosive phreatic eruptions which ejected 200,000 tons of ash, and had a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 2. There were minor non-explosive (VEI 0) phreatic eruptions in 1991 and 2007.
On September 27, 2014, at around 11:53 a.m. Japan Standard Time (UTC +9), the volcano erupted with a VEI of 3. The eruption...