Mt. Kurohime map

Mt. Kurohime

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2 053 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

497 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 1 147 m

About

Mount Kurohime (Japanese: 黒姫山 Kurohime-yama) is a 2,053-metre (6,736 ft) stratovolcano located in Shinano town (信濃町), Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The mountain is one of the 200 most famous mountains in Japan (日本に百名山), and one of the 100 most famous mountains in Nagano (信州百名山).

Mount Kurohime is one of the "Five Mountains of Northern Shinshu" (北信五岳), which also includes two mountains located in Nagano City, Mount Iizuna (飯縄山), located 8.2 km to the south of Mount Kurohime, and Mount Togakushi (戸隠山), located 8 km to the southwest; Mount Madarao (斑尾山), located 13.4 km to the east-northeast in Shinano town and Iiyama; and Mount Myōkō (妙高山), located 8.8 km to the north in Myōkō city, Niigata Prefecture.

There's a trail leading to the summit.

By elevation Mt. Kurohime is

# 1 out of 19 in Kamiminotchi County
# 15 out of 102 in the Kubiki Mountains

By prominence Mt. Kurohime is

# 32 out of 652 in Nagano Prefecture
# 3 out of 19 in Kamiminotchi County
# 7 out of 102 in the Kubiki Mountains