is the main peak of the
Iide mountain range that spans the
Fukushima,
Niigata and
Yamagata prefectures in
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. On top of the mountain stands the . Mount Iide is, together with the rest of the range, one of the mountains described in
Kyūya Fukada
was a Japanese people, Japanese writer and mountaineer active during the Shōwa period in Japan.
Early life
Kyūya was born in what is now Kaga, Ishikawa, Kaga city, Ishikawa prefecture. He attended the Fujishima High School, followed by the pr ...
's book
.
Mount Iide is located at 2105 m
above sea level but is not the highest peak of the Iide mountain range even though it is the main peak of the range. The highest is that is 2128 m high.
The mountain is located on the border between Niigata prefecture and Yamagata prefecture, but the summit itself, Mount Iide Shrine and a path roughly one meter wide leading there belongs to
Kitakata, Fukushima
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 46,269 in 16,769 households, and a population density of 83 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Kitakata was once written ...
. This was a response to complaints when
Higashikanbara District was transferred from Fukushima to Niigata during the
Meiji period
The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...
. As a result, Fukushima prefecture has an uneven border, with an arm stretching through the Iide mountain range up to the Mount Iide Shrine.
See also
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Mount Hiuchigatake
References
Mountains of Fukushima Prefecture
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