# Mount Ontake

- **Country:** Japan
- **Coordinates:** 35.892778, 137.480278
- **Topo:** Geographical Survey Institute, 25000:1 御嶽山, 50000:1 御嶽山
- **Type:** Stratovolcano
- **Listing:** Ultra, Ribu100 famous mountains in Japan
- **Location:** Gifu and Nagano, Chūbu region, Japan
- **Other Name:** 御嶽山
- **Elevation M:** 3067
- **Prominence M:** 1712
- **Last Eruption:** October 2014
- **Label Position:** bottom

Ontake is a major sacred mountain, and following shugendō practices, actors and artists have gone to the mountain to put themselves into trances to get divine inspiration for their creative activities.

![Photo of Mount Ontake](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Kiso_Ontake.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ontake (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)