Mt. Osutaka

This is a 1,639 meters high mountain in Ueno Village, Tano County in Gunma Prefecture. The south side of the mountain borders Nagano Prefecture and Mt. Osutaka stands at the border with the mountain ridge on the Gunma side. At the summit is a third-class triangulation point called Mt. Taishaku. The mountain neighbors three other mountains called Mt. Takamagahara, Mt. Suwa and Mt. Ogura, all rated as intermediate level mountains to climb. Also, the memorial monument for the Japan Airlines 123 flight crash that occurred on August 12 in 1985, stands at the point known as “Osutaka-no-One”.