Standing barely 10-feet tall, Hiyoriyama, or Mount Hiyori, is officially recognized by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan as the country’s lowest mountain. However, there’s more to the story. Artificially created by locals in 1909, Mount Hiyori originally stood about 20-feet tall. Mountain worship is traditional in Japanese culture, in fact, a small shrine was relocated to the foot of Mount Hiyori during the Shōwa period. In 1992, the Geospatial Information Authority announced that the mountain was officially being recognized as the lowest in Japan. There was some controversy surrounding…
