Kyoto
Otokuni district
Ōyamazaki

Mount Tennōzan

Mount Tennō, or Mount Tennōzan, is a mountain in , Japan. The name originates from a shrine on the mountain dedicated to Gozu Tennō, the ox-headed deity of disease and health.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 270 metres
  • Description: mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Mount Tennō”, “Mt. Tenno”, “Tenno-zan”, and “Tennōzan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum and Yamazaki Shōten.

Museum
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Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist temple.

Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Takatsuki and Fushimi-ku.

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is a city in northeastern , near . The neighboring rural districts of Shimamoto and Oyamazaki, just across the border in Kyoto, are also covered here.

Suburb
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Fushimi is one of the eleven wards in the city of , in , . Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; , originally built by Toyotomi… is situated 9 km northeast of Mount Tennōzan.

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Southern Kyoto covers a large part of Japan's , stretching from the Ōharano area in the west to Fushimi-ku, Daigo, and the southern tip of Higashiyama-ku in the east.

Mount Tennōzan

Latitude
34.90185° or 34° 54′ 7″ north
Longitude
135.6763° or 135° 40′ 35″ east
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
Open location code
8Q6QWM2G+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4349281890
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6697562
Wiki­data ID
Q10940452
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Tennōzan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Persian—“Mount Tennōzan” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “တန်းနိုးဇန်တောင်”
  • Cebuano: “Tenno-zan”
  • Chinese: “天王山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Tennōzan”
  • Dutch: “Tenno-zan”
  • Japanese: “てんのうざん”
  • Japanese: “天王山”
  • Ladin: “Mont Tennōzan”
  • Persian: “کوه تننو”
  • Persian: “کوه تننوزان”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 山崎城址 and 酒解神社.

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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 Tennōzan”. Photo: Bakkai, CC BY-SA 3.0.