Mount Tōsen
唐泉山
A 409-meter peak in Saga featuring historic shrines, a protected ancient forest, and a rare 19th-century stone arch bridge.
What it is
- A 409.7-meter mountain in Ureshino known locally as Hizen Kofuji or Fujitsu Fuji.
- Site of Hatten Shrine, reportedly founded by the monk Ekan in the year 653.
- A historical training ground for Shugendo practitioners dedicated to mountain and fire deities.
- The summit area is a protected natural monument consisting of an ancient Castanopsis forest.
What to see
- Three separate shrine buildings belonging to Hatten Shrine located at different elevations.
- A stone arch bridge built in 1854 located at the lower shrine complex.
- The summit forest of Castanopsis trees designated as a prefectural natural monument.
- Geological formations of altered andesite dating back to the Pliocene epoch.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
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