The mountains take in the city

Munakata city has a basin-like topography surrounded by low mountainous areas and hills, around 200 to 400 meters above sea level as a whole, except for the downstream part of the river.

In the mountains and hills, there is a sharp Kamijiji mountainous area (also called Shizuka mountain area · Shitotsuka mountain range) leading from Shiroyama to Mount Shiroji in the north, and a southern area is a monumental monument with low mountains such as Isobe mountain and Koni mountain · Apart from the Kurate low mountain area, it is composed of hill groups collectively called Munakata Hills.

From the city, you can see the mountain ranges outside the city area such as Fukuchiyama lump and Sannori mountain land distantly.

(Ontakeyama in Oshima on the left)

Shizuka mountain range

Among the mountains surrounding Munakata City, we generically name the four of Yukawayama (Mr. Yugawa), Mt. Hitoshidai (Kojiji), Kanayama (Kanayama), Shiroyama (Jyouyama) It is called Renjin.

This Shitotsuka mountain ranging like watching the city is located in one of the frames of the new Munakata City <Natural Environment Conservation Zone> and is also a symbol of Munakata City, which is rich in nature.

The highest Pierodai mountain is about 500 m and the altitude is not so much, but there are places where the mountain trails around each mountain are being maintained and there are places to rest, so climbers who enjoy this "long run" throughout the year I am visiting.

Changing mountains

These mountainous areas and hills were used as satoyama until the 1950s, making forest landscapes surrounded by the green of Munakata, but in recent years some of the hilly land and some of the lower mountains were artificially There are also a few topographies that have changed and have changed from their original appearance.

Some of them are those which created a tree by cutting off the mountain slope with a bulldozer like Mt. Ushiyama district or a part of the low mountain undulations such as Morning Machi upstream, but most of the original There are also areas where residential areas were created by rebuilding and creating golf courses and even flattening the hills as in the Nichinomi district.