Blue Moment, Mount Yari photographed from Mount Tsubakurodake, Nagano, Japan

Photograph by Noriko Tabuchi

A starry night sky shines over the Hida Mountains in the Chubu region of Honshu, Japan. Near the right of the image is Mount Yari (Mt. Yarigatake), a 3,180 m (10,433 ft) high peak in the southern part of the Hida Mountains, on the border of Omachi and Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and Takayama in Gifu Prefecture and located in Chubu-Sangaku National Park.



