Mount Gassan
Mount Gassan is a stratovolcano in the ancient province of Dewa and the highest of the Three Mountains of Dewa. The Gassan Shrine stands at the mountain's summit, 1,984 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,979 metres
- Description: mountain in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ga Ssan”, “Gas-san”, “Gassan”, “Gatsu-san”, “Mount Kuroushi”, “Mt. Gassan”, and “Tsuki-yama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Gassan Ski Resort.
Mount Gassan
- Categories: stratovolcano, mountain, and landform
- Location: Nishikawa, Nishimurayama district, Yamagata, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.54869° or 38° 32′ 55″ northLongitude
140.02684° or 140° 1′ 37″ eastElevation
1,979 metres (6,493 feet)Open location code
8RC2G2XG+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 3259293973OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Gassan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Mount Gassan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gassan mendia”
- Burmese: “ဂက်ဆန်းတောင်”
- Catalan: “Gassan”
- Catalan: “Mont Gassan”
- Cebuano: “Ga Ssan”
- Chinese: “月山”
- Dutch: “Ga Ssan”
- Dutch: “Mount Gassan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت جاسان”
- French: “Gassan”
- French: “mont Gassan”
- French: “Mont Gassan”
- French: “mont Kuroushi”
- Japanese: “Gassan”
- Japanese: “がっさん”
- Japanese: “月山”
- Japanese: “犂牛山”
- Ladin: “Mont Gassan”
- Persian: “کوه گاسان”
- Persian: “کوهٔ گاسان”
- Russian: “Гассан”
- Russian: “Куроусино”
- Spanish: “Monte Gassan”
- Spanish: “Monte Kuroushi”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Gassan”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ گسان”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Gassan”. Photo: Jun K, CC BY-SA 2.0.