Mount Kubote, Historic mountain summit in Buzen, Japan.

Mount Kubote is a 782-meter summit within the Tsukushi Mountains, located between Buzen and Chikujō. Its slopes are covered with varied vegetation that creates different natural patterns across the terrain.

Mount Kubote was a center of Shugendō mountain asceticism until the early Meiji period around 1870. Initially under Hikosan's influence, it later belonged to Shōgoin and maintained about 180 monk quarters in the early modern era, declining to 54 by the late Edo period. In 1950 it became part of Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park, and in 2001 it was designated a Historic Site.

The shrine at the summit is Kunitama Shrine's upper sanctuary (Kunitama Jinja Kamisha), formerly the Shugendo temple Kubote-san Gokokuji until the Meiji-era separation of Buddhism and Shinto turned it into a Shinto shrine. The mountain's name is written with characters meaning "seeking bodhi," and the crow tengu legend lives on in Buzen's mascot Kuboten.

The summit can be reached by car via Fukuoka Prefectural Route 32 from the Soeda district of Miyako or from Buzen, about 15 km from the Buzen Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway. By public transport, take the Buzen city bus Iwaya line from JR Ujima Station and get off at Kubote Tozanguchi. In winter, watch for icy and snow-covered roads at these elevations.

The 850 stone steps to the summit shrine are called "Oni no Abumi"; legend says an oni who ravaged the mountain built them in one night under a pact with Kubote Gongen. The crow tengu legend lives on in "Kuboten", Buzen's mascot.