Mount Kurino, Volcano in Yūsui, Japan

Mount Kurino is a volcanic massif made up of several volcanoes at the western end of the Kirishima range, in Yūsui, Kagoshima Prefecture. It rises 1,056 m, with Iimori-yama about 4 km north and Ebino Kōgen about 5 km east. Its southwest slope, the Kurino Kōgen plateau, holds the Kurino岳 recreation village and the Kirishima Open-Air Museum.

Mount Kurino is one of the old Kirishima volcanoes, which began erupting after the great eruption of the Kakuto caldera about 300,000 years ago. Its lava flows dammed the Sendai River and created the ancient Kakuto Lake, which later drained away. Long weathering and erosion have worn down its rocks and slopes, and in the Edo period an alum mine operated on the mountain.

The mountain's name appears in local usage as Kurinodake, and its southwest slope is known as the Kurino Plateau, where the Kurino-dake Recreation Village has a staircase of railway sleepers billed as Japan's longest. Nearby stands the Kirishima Open-Air Art Museum, and the Edohigan cherry grows at its southern limit on the northwest flank, a designated natural monument.

The southwest slope is the Kurino Plateau, reached by a recreation village whose wooden-sleeper stairway is billed as Japan's longest; the Kirishima Art Forest is nearby. The Edohigan cherry, a wild cherry at its southern limit, grows on the northwest flank and is a designated natural monument. Kurino Dake Onsen sits on the western middle slope.

The lava that flowed from Mount Kurino dammed the Sendai River and created the ancient Kakuto Lake, which later drained away completely. In the Edo period, an alum mine operated on the mountain. The southwestern slope, Kurino Kōgen, holds a recreation village with Japan's longest railway-tie stairway.