Mount Iizuna

Mount Iizuna
Mount Iizuna
	A view from Daizahoushi Pond on the way from Nagano City to Togakushi Village. Mount Reisenji on the right and Mount Menō on the left.
Highest point
Elevation	1,917 m (6,289 ft)
Coordinates	36°44′22″N 138°8′1″E / 36.73944°N 138.13361°E
Naming
Native name	飯縄山 Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help)
English translation	mountain of edible sand
Geography
	Mount Iizuna Location in Japan
Location	Nagano, Japan
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano

Mount Iizuna (飯縄山, Iizuna-yama), also known as Mount Izuna (飯綱山, Izuna-yama), is a mountain located ten kilometers north-northwest of the heart of Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Together with Mount Reisenji (霊仙寺山, Resenji-yama) 1875.0 m, Mount Menō (瑪瑙山, Menō-yama) 1748 m, and others, it forms the Iizuna range. It has an elevation of 1,917 metres. It is one of the "Five Mountains of Northern Shinshu" (北信五岳) that includes: Mount Myōkō (妙高山), Mount Kurohime (黒姫山), Mount Togakushi (戸隠山) and Mount Madarao (斑尾山).

This mountain is a sacred site for mountain-based religious sects such as Shugendo, and said to be the home of a tengu named Saburō. According to legend, there was once a strange, edible sand somewhere on the mountain, which the tengu would distribute in times of poor harvest.