Volcano list
Abu
(shield volcano 641 m / 2,103 ft)The group, also known as the Abu Monogenetic Volcano Group (AMVG), covers 400 sq km and con... [more info]
Adatara
(stratovolcanoes 1718 m / 5,636 ft)Aizu Nunobiki
(Stratovolcano 1108 m / 3635 ft)Akagi
(stratovolcano 1828 m / 5,997 ft)The volcano contains a 3 x 4 km diameter summit caldera which contains lake Ono in the NE.
It is uncertain whether the volcano ... [more info]
Akita-Komagatake
(stratovolcanoes 1637 m / 5,371 ft)The eruption of Akita-Komagatake in Sep 1970 (source: http://www.qsr.mlit.go.jp/)
The volcano consists of a main edifice cut b... [more info]
Akita-Yake-yama
(stratovolcano 1366 m / 4,482 ft)Akita-Yake-yama is the most recently active of a group of overlapping volcanoes immediately west of the Hachimantai volcanic group... [more info]
Asama
(complex volcano 2568 m / 8,425 ft)Asamayama volcano (JMA)
Asama's activity is typically e... [more info]
Ayame-daira
(Stratovolcano(es) 1969 m / 6460 ft)Azuma
(stratovolcanoes 2035 m / 6,676 ft)Historical eruptions were mostly small phreatic eruptions from the Issaikyo volcano at the norther... [more info]
Azumayasan
(Stratovolcano 2323 m / 7621 ft)Bandai
(stratovolcano 1819 m / 5,968 ft)The volcano is located in the southern part of the NE Honshu volcanic arc.
The last magma was erup... [more info]
Bishamon-dake
(Stratovolcano 1386 m / 4547 ft)Chojagahara
(Pyroclastic cone 390 m / 1280 ft)Chokai
(stratovolcanoes 2233 m / 7,326 ft)Chokai volcano
It is a massive stratovolcano with a broad conical profile which is why it is called locally Akita-Fuji or Dewa-Fuji. Its height measures from the WNW elongated 15x20 km base about 2000 m.
Daikon-jima
(Pyroclastic cone 42 m / 138 ft)Dainichi-yama
(Stratovolcano 1369 m / 4491 ft)Dainichiga-take
(Stratovolcano 1709 m / 5607 ft)Daira-Komaga-take
(Stratovolcano 1158 m / 3799 ft)Eboshi-Washigatake
(Stratovolcano 1672 m / 5486 ft)Ganto-Kamuro
(Stratovolcano(es) 1485 m / 4872 ft)Hachimantai
(stratovolcano 1614 m / 5,295 ft)Hachimantai was originally the name of a small peak (1614m) in the northern ... [more info]
Hakkoda
(stratovolcanoes 1585 m / 5,200 ft)There are fumaroles and hot springs at Ido-dake and several other locations. 3 minor phreatic eruptions were documented from Jigok... [more info]
Hakone
(complex volcano 1438 m / 4,718 ft)Haku-san
(stratovolcano 2702 m / 8,865 ft)the volcano last erupted in 1659, but many eruptions have been recorded during the 1000 years pri... [more info]
Hanamagari
(Stratovolcano(es) 1757 m / 5764 ft)Haruna
(stratovolcano 1449 m / 4,754 ft)The most recent eruptions, dated to the 6th cent... [more info]
Hijiori
(caldera 516 m / 1,693 ft)It formed about 12,000 years ago during an eruption that produced dacitic pyroclastic flows and tephra fall to the east until the Pacifi Ocean. A lava dome... [more info]
Hiuchi
(stratovolcano 2356 m / 7,730 ft)The last eruption was in 1544... [more info]
Hodakadake
(Caldera 3190 m / 10466 ft)Iwaki
(stratovolcano 1625 m / 5,331 ft)Iwaki contains a 2-km-wide summit crater which is filled by a lava dome flanked b... [more info]
Iwate
(complex volcano 2041 m / 6,696 ft)It consists of 2 cones, the older western Nishi-Iwate and the younger eastern summit Higashi-Iwate. The older volcano to the west is truncated by a calder... [more info]
Izu-Tobu
(pyroclastic cones 1406 m / 4,613 ft)The Izu-Tobu volcanic group covers an area of 400 sq km and contains many submarine volcanoes offshore of the peninsula. Most o... [more info]
Kaminoroka
(Unknown 2465 m / 8087 ft)Kamitakara
(Unknown 1831 m / 6007 ft)Kanpu
(cinder cone, maars 355 m / 1,165 ft)Kinunuma-Nenakusa
(Lava dome(s) 2141 m / 7024 ft)Kirigamine
(Shield 1925 m / 6316 ft)Kita Yatsugatake
(stratovolcanoes 2530 m / 8,300 ft)Yokodake lava d... [more info]
Komochi-Onoko
(Stratovolcano(es) 1296 m / 4252 ft)Kurikoma
(stratovolcano 628 m / 5,341 ft)Minor phreatic eruptions have occurred i... [more info]
Kusatsu-Shirane
(stratovolcanoes 2171 m / 7,123 ft)All historical eruptions have consisted of phreatic explosions from the acidic crater lakes or their margins. T... [more info]
Kyoga-take
(Stratovolcano(es) 1671 m / 5482 ft)Megata
(maars 291 m / 955 ft)Midagahara
(stratovolcano 2621 m / 8,599 ft)Momisawa-dake
(Unknown 2755 m / 9039 ft)Mt Fuji
(stratovolcano 3776 m / 12,388)"Ryu sho ten" or "Ryu shoten" (Dragon rising to the heavens), also known as "Gekko Zuihitsu" (Gekko's Sketch), a Ukiyo-e print from Ogata Gekko's Views of Mt. Fuji. A dragon rises out of smoke near Mt. Fuji, ascending towards the sky.
Mukaimachi
(Caldera 657 m / 2156 ft)Mutsu-Hiuchi-dake
(stratovolcano 781 m / 2,562 ft)The andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano is probably extinct. It was active between 700,000 to 50,000 years ago, but there is still fumarolic activity. [more info]
Mutsure-jima
(Pyroclastic cone(s) 104 m / 341 ft)Myoko
(stratovolcano 2446 m / 8,025 ft)Myoko's summit is formed by a lava dome filling most of a 3-km-wide caldera which is widely breached t... [more info]
Nanashigure
(Lava dome 1063 m / 3488 ft)Nantai
(stratovolcano 2486 m / 8,156 ft)Lake Chuzenji was formed by eruptions of Nantai volcano which produced lava flows that blocked the Daiya River. The dramati... [more info]
Narugo
(caldera 470 m / 1,542 feet)Katanuma crater lake is one of the most acid crater lakes of Japan, with a pH of 1.6. Shurado... [more info]
Nasu
(stratovolcanoes 1915 m / 6,283 ft)Niigata-Yake-yama
(lava dome 2400 m / 7,874 ft)Nikko-Shirane
(shield volcano 2578 m / 8,458 ft)All historical eruptions, recorded during the 17th-20th c... [more info]
Norikura
(stratovolcanoes 3026 m / 9,928 ft)Numanokami
(Stratovolcano 1541 m / 5056 ft)Numazawa
(shield volcano, caldera 1100 m / 3,609 ft)Nyoho-Akanagi
(Stratovolcano 2483 m / 8146 ft)Nyuto-Takakura
(Stratovolcano(es) 1478 m / 4849 ft)Oetaka-yama
(Lava dome(s) 808 m / 2651 ft)Oki-Dogo
(shield volcano 151 m / 495 ft)Omanago
(lava domes 2367 m / 7,766 ft)The highest of the dacitic domes is 2367-m-high Omanago, which later erupted andesitic lavas. Mitsu-dake lava dome, which overlooks the hot spring... [more info]
Omeshi-dake
(Stratovolcano 2160 m / 7087 ft)Onikobe
(caldera 769 m / 2,523 ft)In 1938 a new geyser (Benten geyser, or generally called Onikobe geyser) ... [more info]
Ontake-san
(complex volcano 3063 m / 10,049 ft)Mt.Ontake, viewed from Kuzo Pass of Route 361 (pictrure: Atsushi Ueda / Wiki Commons)
Its first historic eruption occurred in 1979. A landslide in 1984 was not related to an eruption and produced a ... [more info]
Osore-yama
(stratovolcano 879 m / 2,884 ft)It is known locally also as Yake-yama, or "Burning Mountain". Older residents reported that large fires and clouds were sometimes seen from the ... [more info]
Ryohaku Maru-yama
(Stratovolcano 1786 m / 5860 ft)Sanbe
(stratovolcano 1126 m / 3,694 ft)A well-known feature are the Sanbe-onsen Hot Spr... [more info]
Shiga
(shield volcanoes 2041 m / 6,696 ft)The last eruptions were about 250,000 and 10,000 years ago. The complex was built on top of a large lava plateau that was erupted between about 3... [more info]
Shirouma-Oike
(Stratovolcano(es) 2469 m / 8100 ft)Sukai-Kesemaru
(Stratovolcano(es) 2144 m / 7034 ft)Sunagohara
(Caldera 729 m / 2392 ft)Takahara
(stratovolcano 1795 m / 5,889 ft)The basaltic-to-dacitic volcano is constructed within the Shiobara caldera. It contains a number of small lava domes, including the symmetri... [more info]
Takayashiro
(Stratovolcano 1351 m / 4432 ft)Tokuyama-Mitake
(Lava dome 790 m / 2592 ft)Torikabuto
(Stratovolcano 2038 m / 6686 ft)Towada
(caldera 1159 m / 3,802 ft)The caldera formed during repeated collapse during 6 major eruptions between 53,000 and 13,... [more info]
Utsukushigahara
(Shield 2034 m / 6673 ft)Washiba-Kumonotaira
(shield volcanoes 2924 m / 9,593 ft)The last activity was from Washiba-ike volcano less than 12,000 years ago. [more info]
Yake-dake
(stratovolcanoes 2455 m / 8,054 ft)It has had frequent small to moderate phreatic eruptions ... [more info]
Yatsugatake
(Stratovolcano(es) 2899 m / 9511 ft)Zao
(comlex volcano 1841 m / 6,040 ft)The older parts of the complex are Ryuzan volcano in the west and Byobu and... [more info]