Mount Asahi (Yamagata)

Mount Asahi (朝日岳) is a mountain located on the border of Yamagata Prefecture with Niigata Prefecture, in northern Japan. It is part of the Asahi Mountain Range, which is part of Bandai-Asahi National Park. The mountain has a peak Ō-Asahidake (大朝日岳) with a height of 1870 m which is wholly within Yamagata Prefecture, and a secondary peak Ko-Asahidake (小朝日岳) with a height of 1648 m to the northeast. Another peak in the same range, Nishi-Asahidake (西朝日岳) to the northwest has a height of 1814 m.

It is one of the mountains described in Kyūya Fukada's book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.