Mount Takao

View from Takao Mount Fuji behind foothills of the Japanese Alps

The Takao (高 尾 山jap, -san ) is the local mountain of Hachioji in Japan. He still belongs to the metropolitan area and is only 599 meters high but is immediately adjacent to the lying almost at sea Kanto Plain with the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, which he on a clear day offers a wide view. In it, a cable railway.

Its proximity to Tokyo and the easy access via the cable car makes it one of the most important destinations for day trippers from the metropolitan area of ​​the capital of Japan. The monastery Yakuōinyūkiji (薬 王 院 有喜 寺) near the summit is an important monastery of the Shingon Buddhist school because this school looks at the Takao as one of the three sacred mountains in the Kanto area.