is a range of volcanic mountains in central

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, forming the border between Izu City and Higashi-Izu Town. It is also referred to as the . The Amagi mountains have several peaks, the tallest of which are at , at , and at . There are several hiking routes to the top. Flora in the area include

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s, Japanese andromeda, ''stewartia monadelpha'' and Siebold's beech. Many ships of the

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were named after it, including a corvette, a battlecruiser and an aircraft carrier. Amagi is listed as one of the

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in a book composed in 1964 by

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.Hyakumeizan, Hiking Japan!
. Japan Gazetteer.

Gallery

File:Mount_Amagi_20120610.jpg, View from the north File:Mount Amagi 20120218.jpg, View from the south File:Izu city, Ikadaba, Wasabi fields 20111002 C.jpg, Mount Amagi is a well-known producer of

wasabi Wasabi (Japanese language, Japanese: , , or , ) or Japanese horseradish (''Eutrema japonicum'' syn. ''Wasabia japonica'') is a plant of the family Brassicaceae, which also includes horseradish and Mustard plant, mustard in other genus, genera. ...

, which grows naturally along Japan's stream beds in mountain river valleys.

References

External links

Amagi San
- Geological Survey of Japan

- Izu city official
Hiking Map
- Izu city official (web.archive.org) Mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park Volcanoes of Shizuoka Prefecture Volcanoes of Honshū {{shizuoka-geo-stub