Check out this live webcam of Mount Daisen (大山, Daisen) in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Its height reaches 1729 meters.
This mountain is the highest in the Chugoku region and the most significant volcano in the Daisen volcanic belt, which is part of the southwestern Honshu volcanic arc, where the Philippine Sea plate subducts under the Amur plate.
Mount Daisen is a complex volcano formed by repeated volcanic activity over thousands of years. Eruptions in the area began 1.8 million years ago, leading to the formation of Old Daisen about 500,000 years ago.
The current Mount Daisen, New Daisen, arose from a sequence of eruptions that began 50,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago in the Old Daisen caldera. A Plinian eruption occurred on this mountain 50,000 years ago, the volcanic ash of which can be found as far away as the Tohoku region of Japan. Daisen is one of Japan’s 100 Famous Mountains, as well as one of the 100 Chugoku Mountains.