Mt. Mitake

The mountain of Mount Mitake is in Chichibu Tama Kai National Park, near Tokyo, Japan. It stands 929 meters (3,048 feet) high. It's one of the many highlights of the park, which covers more than 1,250 square kilometres (483 square miles) of forested mountains, hills, streams and some rural villages in the prefectures of Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo and Nagano. To get there, take a train from Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to Mitake station on the Ome Line. You will have to change trains at Ome Station. From Mitake Station, exit at the main exit, cross the river on the road bridge and then turn immediately right.