Mount Kurakake

鞍掛山

Hitachi, Ibaraki · Elevation 248 m

Mount Kurakake is a 247.6 m peak in Miyata-chō, Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, forming the southern end of the Hitachi Alps ridge. After being stripped bare by smoke from the Hitachi copper mine in the early twentieth century, the mountain became the seed of Hitachi's reputation as a 'city of cherry blossoms' when local companies and citizens jointly began replanting it — and roughly 520 descendants of those original Ōshima cherries still bloom on its slopes today. It is the setting of Nitta Jirō's novel A Tall Chimney in a Town.

Mount Kurakake at a glance

Weather: The most settled day in the next 7 days is Fri, November 6: clear, gusts up to 7 m/s. Sun, Nov 8: strong wind (gusts up to 15 m/s).

Mount Kurakake weather (hourly, 14 days)

Sunrise today 06:02, sunset 16:40

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Precipitation	mm																5	2.1	11	19	14		3.1	0.4									0.1																		0.3	0.7	0.3		0.5		1.7	0.1		0.3																		4.2	16	0.1
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Wind gusts	m/s	6	4	6	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	7	5	5	9	10	15	14	13	6	4	4	3	3	3	7	7	5	8	12	13	9	10	13	14	15	15	14	17	17	15	12	8	6	4	4	6	8	8	8	9	11	11	12	8	7	12	14	12	10	7	7	6	4	10	11	12	10	6	6	6	6	6	10	10	9	6	9	16	12	10	9
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