Mount Bunagatake

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Mount Bunagatake 武奈ヶ岳
A View of Mt. Bunagatake from Mount Goza
Elevation	1214.4 meters
Location	Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan
Range	Hira Mountains
Coordinates	35°15′N, 135°53′E
Type	Ruins

Mount Bunagatake (武奈ヶ岳, Bunagatake^?) is a 1214.4 meter high mountain in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan. This mountain is one of the 200 famous mountains in Japan, and Kinki 100 mountains.

[edit] Outline

Mount Bunagatake is the highest mountain of Hira Mountains. Hira mountains consist of three parts, Oku-Hira, Kita-Hira and Minami-Hira, literally, ‘Deep Hira’, ‘North Hira’, and ‘South Hira’. Mount Bunagatake belongs to Oku-Hira, and on the Mesozoic strata as other mountains of Oku-Hira. This mountain is also a part of Biwako Quasi-National Park, and visitors can enjoy the almost 360 degree panorama view from the top.

[edit] Access

From Hira Station to the middle of this mountain, Hira Chair Lift, which was made in 1960, and Hira Ropeway opened in 1961, connected until 2004 with a Bus route by Kojyaku Bus. However the chair lift and the ropeway were removed in 2004, and the Bus route was also discontinued after that.