Mount Myōken
妙見山
A sacred peak on the Osaka-Hyogo border featuring an Edo-period temple and a ten-thousand-year-old natural monument beech forest.
What it is
- A peak in the Hokusetsu mountain range spanning Hyogo and Osaka Prefectures.
- Home to Nose Myokendo temple established by Lord Nose Yoritsugu in the Edo period.
- The southern limit for natural beech forests in Japan.
- A site featuring Hontaki-ji temple founded at a waterfall in 1935.
What to see
- Nose Myokendo temple buildings located near the mountain summit.
- A natural monument beech forest that is over ten thousand years old.
- A fourth-class triangulation point marking the highest point of the mountain.
- Hontaki-ji temple situated at a mountain waterfall.
Getting there
- Five hiking routes lead to the summit from Myokenguchi Station.
- Public transport to the summit ceased operations in December 2023.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
Mount Myōken Open in Google Maps
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