Mount Hino, Summit in Echizen, Japan

Mount Hino is a 794.8-meter peak on the border of Echizen and Minamiechizen in Fukui Prefecture, at the western end of the mountain block that runs from the Okumino range in Gifu. It is the shintai, or sacred body, of Hino Shrine, and a small hokora stands at the summit. Part of the summit collapsed during the Go-Roku heavy snowfall.

Mount Hino was opened as a sacred mountain in 718 by the monk Taichō, and it has been venerated as a site of mountain worship since then. It is counted among the five sacred peaks of Echizen, together with Hakusan, Ochisan, Monjusan and Zaōsan. Poets including Murasaki Shikibu and Matsuo Bashō wrote verses about it.

Mount Hino is the shintai, or sacred body, of Hino Shrine, and a small hokora stands at the summit. The shrine at the foot in Naka-Hirabuki, Echizen, is the start of the main trail, about 1 hour 30 minutes to the top. The peak is one of the Echizen Five Mountains with Hakusan, Ochi, Monju and Zao.

Trailheads lie at Hino Shrine in Nakahirabuki, Kayanotani and Aratani, all in Echizen; the Nakahirabuki and Aratani shrines are about 1 hour 30 minutes from the summit, Kayanotani and Miyatani about 1 hour 50 minutes. A route from Makitani in Minamiechizen or Kayanotani follows the old Asakura Kaido over Makitani Pass; the old road from Kayanotani is partly overgrown, and the stream crossing is dangerous when water is high.

The Hokuriku Expressway's Hino-san Tunnel runs directly beneath the mountain's western foot. The peak also lost part of its summit in a collapse during the Go-roku heavy-snow winter, a reminder of how snow load shapes this range.