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Mount Asahi 朝日岳
| Elevation | 1,870 m (6,135 ft) |
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| Location | Yamagata, Niigata, Japan |
| Region | Tohoku |
| Famous Mountains list | No. 17 of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains (Nihon Hyaku-meizan) |
| Coordinates | 38.2603° N, 139.922° E |
Mount Asahi (朝日岳, Asahidake) is a mountain located on the border of Yamagata Prefecture with Niigata Prefecture, in northern Japan. It is part of the Asahi Mountain Range, which is part of Bandai-Asahi National Park. The mountain has a peak Ō-Asahidake (大朝日岳) with a height of 1,870 metres (6,140 ft) which is wholly within Yamagata Prefecture, and a secondary peak Ko-Asahidake (小朝日岳) with a height of 1,648 metres (5,407 ft) to the northeast. Another peak in the same range, Nishi-Asahidake (西朝日岳) to the northwest has a height of 1,814 metres (5,951 ft).
It is one of the mountains described in Kyūya Fukada's book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Text adapted from the English Wikipedia article Mount Asahi (Yamagata) by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Elevation and location facts cross-checked with Wikidata (CC0) and the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0).