Mount Haruna
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Haruna (Japanese: 榛名) is an active stratovolcano in eastern Honshu, Japan. Its summit is 1,449 m high, located at Template:Coor dm. It appeared about 300,000 years ago; the last known eruption was c. 550.
In fiction
In the anime Initial D Haruna appears under the name "Akina" (秋名). The mountain is where the main character, Takumi Fujiwara, delivers tofu everyday to a hotel uphill, using his Toyota 86. It is also where Takumi raced his first few races.
See also
- The battleship Haruna was named after the mountain.
External links
- Haruna (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0803-122) from Global Volcanism Program (http://www.volcano.si.edu/)
- Pictures from Haruna (http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/haruna/haruna.htm) and also here (http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/bangai/bangai.htm#haruna) (Japanese page)