are a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in Nagano

Nagano Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...

 and Gifu

Gifu Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu.Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendō...

 prefectures in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. They are also called the and they combine with the Hida Mountains

Hida Mountains

The , or , is a Japanese mountain range which stretches through Nagano, Toyama and Gifu prefectures. A small portion of the mountains also reach into Niigata Prefecture. William Gowland coined the phrase "Japanese Alps" during his time in Japan, but he was only referring to the Hida Mountains when...

 ("Northern Alps") and the Akaishi Mountains

Akaishi Mountains

is a mountain range in central Honshū, Japan, bordering Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures. It is also called the , as it joins with the Hida Mountains and the Kiso Mountains to form the Japanese Alps....

 ("Southern Alps") to form a group collectively known as the Japanese Alps

Japanese Alps

The is a series of mountain ranges in Japan that bisect the main island of Honshū. The name was coined by William Gowland, the "Father of Japanese Archaeology," and later popularized by Reverend Walter Weston , an English missionary for whom a memorial plaque is located at Kamikochi, a tourist...

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Outline

The mountain range consists of Granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

. There is the Komagatake Ropeway

Komagatake Ropeway

is an aerial lift line in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. This is the only line operates. The company, a member of Meitetsu Group, also operates hotels and ski resorts. The line, opened in 1967, climbs...

 in the east side of Mount Kisokoma

Mount Kisokoma

is a mountain located in Miyada, Kamiina District, and Kiso and Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall and is the tallest peak in the Kiso Mountains. It is also included on the list of "100 Famous Japanese Mountains." Sometimes its name is just...

. A lot of tourists visit the station on the top. The upper part of the mountain range is the Tree line, and a lot of Alpine plant

Alpine plant

Alpine plants are plants that grow in the alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. Alpine plants grow together as a plant community in alpine tundra.-Alpine plant diversity:...

 grow naturally. Leontopodium shinanense of Leontopodium

Leontopodium

Leontopodium is a genus of plants in the daisy family, which includes edelweiss , a well-known plant from the mountains of Europe. The term edelweiss can, more rarely, refer to other members of the genus...

is the Endemism around Mount Kisokoma.

Major peaks

No.	Image	Mountain Mountain Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...	Height Height Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use. It can either indicate how "tall" something is, or how "high up" it is. For example "The height of the building is 50 m" or "The height of the airplane is 10,000 m"...	Note	Japanese
1		Mount Kyō	2296.25 m (7,534 ft)	200 famous	経ヶ岳
2		Mount Shōgikashira	2730 m (8,957 ft)		将棊頭山
3		Mount Kisokoma Mount Kisokoma is a mountain located in Miyada, Kamiina District, and Kiso and Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall and is the tallest peak in the Kiso Mountains. It is also included on the list of "100 Famous Japanese Mountains." Sometimes its name is just...	2955.95 m (9,698 ft)	highest in Kiso Mountains 100 famous	木曽駒ヶ岳
4		Mount Hōken	2931 m (9,616 ft)	Senjōjiki Cirque Cirque Cirque may refer to:* Cirque, a geological formation* Makhtesh, an erosional landform found in the Negev desert of Israel and Sinai of Egypt*Cirque , an album by Biosphere* Cirque Corporation, a company that makes touchpads...	宝剣岳
5		Mount Sannosawa Mount Sannosawa is amongst the Kiso Mountains, located in the Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall. It is composed of Granite, and has a long wide cirque covered in dense vegetation, mainly pine trees. There is the "Sannosawa cirque". Glacial expansion has created a gully,...	2848.48 m (9,345 ft)		三ノ沢岳
6		Mount Hinokio	2827.74 m (9,277 ft)		檜尾岳
7		Mount Kumasawa	2778 m (9,114 ft)		熊沢岳
8		Mount Utsugi Mount Utsugi is a mountain located on the boundary of Okuwa, Iijima and Miyada, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall and part of the Kiso Mountains. It is also included on the list of "100 Famous Japanese Mountains."-External links:...	2863.71 m (9,395 ft)	100 famous	空木岳
9		Mount Minamikoma Mount Minamikoma is a mountain located on the border between Okuwa, Kiso District, and Iijima, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall and part of the Kiso Mountains. It is also included on the list of "200 Famous Japanese Mountains."...	2841 m (9,321 ft)	200 famous	南駒ヶ岳
10		Mount Kosumo	2613.24 m (8,574 ft)	300 famous	越百山
11		Mount Okunenjō	2303 m (7,556 ft)		奥念丈岳
12		Mount Ampeiji	2363.14 m (7,753 ft)	200 famous	安平路山
13		Mount Surikogi	2168.52 m (7,115 ft)		摺古木山
14		Mount Ena Mount Ena is a mountain located on the border between Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, and Achi, Nagano Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall. It is considered part of the Kiso Mountains and is included on the list of "100 Famous Japanese Mountains."...	2191 m (7,188 ft)	100 famous	恵那山
15		Mount Ōkawairi	1907.74 m (6,259 ft)		大川入山

Foothills

• Mount Nenjō (念丈岳), 2291 m (7,516 ft)
• Mount Nagiso (南木曽岳), 1677 m (5,502 ft)
• Mount Kazakoshi (Kiso) (風越山), 1699 m (5,574 ft)
• Mount Kazakoshi (Ena) (風越山), 1535 m (5,036 ft)

Rivers that become source

The following rivers

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

 that become the sources flows to the Ise Bay

Ise Bay

Ise Bay is a bay located at the mouth of the Kiso River between Mie and Aichi Prefectures in Japan. Ise Bay has an average depth of 19.5 metres and a maximum depth of 30 metres toward the centre. The mouth of the bay is 9 kilometres wide and is connected to the smaller Mikawa Bay by two channels:...

 and the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

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• Kiso River
  Kiso River
  The is a river in Japan roughly 193 km long, flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying into Ise Bay a short distance away from the city of Nagoya. It is the main river of the Kiso Three Rivers and forms a major part of the Nōbi Plain...
  
  
• Tenryū River
  Tenryu River
  The is a river arising from Lake Suwa in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, grazing Aichi Prefecture and flowing through western Shizuoka Prefecture in central Honshū, Japan. With a length of , it is Japan's ninth longest river.-Geography:...
  
  

Scenery of Kiso Mountains

Kiso Mountains seen from east (Mount Amida)	Kiso Mountains seen from west (Mount Kohide)	Mt. Kisokoma Mount Kisokoma is a mountain located in Miyada, Kamiina District, and Kiso and Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall and is the tallest peak in the Kiso Mountains. It is also included on the list of "100 Famous Japanese Mountains." Sometimes its name is just...  and Mt. Hōken seen from Mount Sannosawa Mount Sannosawa is amongst the Kiso Mountains, located in the Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is tall. It is composed of Granite, and has a long wide cirque covered in dense vegetation, mainly pine trees. There is the "Sannosawa cirque". Glacial expansion has created a gully,...	Mt. Kisokoma and Mt. Hōken seen from Mount Kazakoshi

See also

• List of mountains in Japan
• Japanese Alps
  Japanese Alps
  The is a series of mountain ranges in Japan that bisect the main island of Honshū. The name was coined by William Gowland, the "Father of Japanese Archaeology," and later popularized by Reverend Walter Weston , an English missionary for whom a memorial plaque is located at Kamikochi, a tourist...
  
  
• Hida Mountains
  Hida Mountains
  The , or , is a Japanese mountain range which stretches through Nagano, Toyama and Gifu prefectures. A small portion of the mountains also reach into Niigata Prefecture. William Gowland coined the phrase "Japanese Alps" during his time in Japan, but he was only referring to the Hida Mountains when...
  
   (Northern Alps)
• Akaishi Mountains
  Akaishi Mountains
  is a mountain range in central Honshū, Japan, bordering Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures. It is also called the , as it joins with the Hida Mountains and the Kiso Mountains to form the Japanese Alps....
  
  (Southern Alps)