Mount Kumotori

View from Nanatsuishi in the southeast on the Kumotori

The Kumotori (Japanese云 取 山, -yama ) is a mountain in Okuchichibu Mountains on the main Japanese island of Honshu. His 2017 m high summit lies on the border between the East Japan prefectures of Tokyo, Saitama and Yamanashi, in the municipalities of Okutama, Chichibu and Tabayama.

The summit of Kumotori is also the highest and most westerly point of the Tokyo Prefecture. South-east lie along the Ishione the highest mountains in the prefecture, including immediately south of the 1,927 m high Kokumotoriyama, the "little Kumotori ". To the north in Saitama are Myōhōgatake and Shiraiwa -yama, together with the Kumotori as Mitsumine -san (三 峰山, " Mitsumine mountains " ) above the small shrine known. The higher mountains of Okuchichibu Mountains lie to the west.

The area is part of the Chichibu- Tama - Kai National Park. The forests on the flanks of Kumotori are also protected as a source area of ​​the left Tama inflows from the prefecture authorities of Tokyo and Yamanashi than suigenrin (水源 林, "Source forests ").

The Kumotori belongs to the Nihon Hyakumeizan, the " One Hundred Famous Mountains of Japan ", the Fukada Kyūya popularized in his 1964 book of the same.