The highest of the three sacred Dewa Sanzan mountains, with a shrine at the 1,984-metre summit and summer skiing on its snowfields.
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AUTUMN · Oct
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3°C
Partly cloudy
💧 47% rain chance · wind 13 km/h
Hourly forecast
Forecast: Open-Meteo
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Parking
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Suitability
Stroller: Not verified
Nursing room: Not available
Noise level: quiet
Rules
Drones: banned
Nearby places
Within 30 km, closest first.
Sources, photo credits and verification
Place information: Official tourism source · Reviewed 2026-10-06
- 1. The Nothwest face of Gassan with Tsuruoka City in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. · Jun K · Source ↗ · CC BY-SA 2.0