Mount Hiei

Mount Hiei is a mountain that lies to the northeast of in the Sakamoto district of city. It is famed for the extensive temple complex near the summit.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 848 metres
  • Description: mountain in Kyōto, Kyōto prefefecture and Ōtsu, Shiga Prefectures, Japan
  • Also known as: “Daihiei”, “Daihiei Mountain”, “Eizan”, “Hiei-sammyaku”, “Hiei-san”, “Hieizan”, “Hieno-yama”, “Hokurei”, “Miyako Fuji”, “Mt. Hiei”, “Мияко Фудзи”, “Хиэй-дзан”, “Хокурэй”, “Эй-дзан”, “هيه (جبل)”, “北岭”, “北嶺”, “叡山”, “大比叡”, “天台山”, and “都富士”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Enryakuji Temple, Monjuro and Kokuhōden.

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Enryaku-ji is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu, overlooking . It was first founded in 788 during the early Heian period by Saichō, also known as Dengyō Daishi, who introduced the Tendai sect of Mahayana Buddhism to from .

Museum
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is a museum.

Railway station
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Motateyama Station is a funicular railway station located in the city of , , Japan, operated by the private railway company Hieizan Railway. It was opened as a way to access nearby campground. The campground has since closed.

Mount Hiei

Latitude
35.0658° or 35° 3′ 57″ north
Longitude
135.8344° or 135° 50′ 4″ east
Elevation
848 metres (2,782 feet)
Open location code
8Q7Q3R8M+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6392004805
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1862859
Wiki­data ID
Q748040
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mount Hiei” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل هيه”
  • Asturian: “Monte Hiei”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hiey dağı”
  • Basque: “Hiei mendia”
  • Burmese: “ဟိအဲတောင်”
  • Burmese: “ဟိအဲအိတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Mont Hiei”
  • Cebuano: “Hiei-zan (bukid sa Hapon, lat 35,06, long 135,83)”
  • Cebuano: “Hiei-zan”
  • Chinese: “比叡山”
  • Czech: “Hiei”
  • Dutch: “Hiei”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هيه”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Hiei”
  • Estonian: “Hiei”
  • Finnish: “Hieivuori”
  • French: “mont Hiei”
  • French: “Mont Hiei”
  • German: “Hiei-zan”
  • German: “Hiei”
  • Hebrew: “הר היאיי”
  • Hungarian: “Hiei-hegy”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Hiei”
  • Italian: “Monte Hiei”
  • Japanese: “Hiei-zan”
  • Japanese: “ひえいざん”
  • Japanese: “比叡山”
  • Korean: “히에이산”
  • Ladin: “Mont Hiei”
  • Latin: “Mons Hieus”
  • Pangasinan: “Palandey na Hiei”
  • Persian: “کوه هیئی”
  • Polish: “Hiei (góra)”
  • Polish: “Hiei”
  • Romanian: “Hiei”
  • Russian: “Хиэй”
  • Spanish: “Monte Hiei”
  • Turkish: “Hiei Dağı”
  • Turkish: “hiei”
  • Ukrainian: “Гора Хієй”
  • Venetian: “Monte Hiei”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Hiei”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉ Duệ sơn”
  • Wu Chinese: “比叡山”
  • Yue Chinese: “比叡山”

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