Ontake

Ontake is the name of a series of mountains in Japan . However, there are different spellings for the name “Ontake” in Japanese , the most common of which is 御 岳山 . The last character with the meaning "mountain" is read sometimes "san" and sometimes "yama".

Since several pronunciations are possible for Japanese characters , there are also mountains whose names are also written with the characters “ 御 岳 ”, but read “Otake”, “Mitake”, “Midake” or “Mitaki”. In detail these are:

mountains

• Ontake-san (Nagano) (deviant: 御 嶽山 ), volcano in Nagano prefecture
• Ontake-san (Gunma) , Gunma Prefecture
• Ontake-san (Saitama) , Saitama Prefecture
• Mitake-san (Tokyo) , Tokyo Prefecture
• Mitake-yama (Niigata) , Niigata Prefecture
• Ontake-yama (Fukui) , Fukui Prefecture
• Mitake (Gifu) , Gifu Prefecture
• Ontake-san (Gifu) , Gifu Prefecture
• Ontake-san (Tochigi) , Tochigi Prefecture
• Ontake-san (Aichi) , Aichi Prefecture
• Mitake-yama (Aichi) , Aichi Prefecture
• Midake-yama , Shimane Prefecture
• Mitaki-san , Ehime Prefecture
• Ontake-yama (Saga) , Saga Prefecture

religion

• The religious sites of the Ryūkyū Islands are also known as Ontake , but the more common name is Utaki .
• Ontake-kyō ( 御 嶽 教 ) is a Shinto sect . However, it has to do with the aforementioned Mount Ontake in Nagano Prefecture and not with the cult of the Ryūkyūs.

Train stations

see Mitake station

Others

• (2330) Ontake , asteroid
• (2924) Mitake-mura , asteroid of the main outer belt
• Mitake Tozan Tetsudō , Japanese railway company