is a mountain in Nishinomiya, Hyà Âgo, Japan. It is located in the east end of the Rokko Mountains, and the height is 309.2m.
Mount Kabuto is a famous picnic spot in the Kansai metropolitan area. It is a monadnock of an extinct volcano that was estimated to have last erupted about 12,000,000 years ago. The mountain is in Kabutoyama Forest Park.
The mountain is shaped like a helmet, 'kabuto' in Japanese. It has a long history as an object of worship by people around the mountain. Kanno-ji in the middle of the mountain is the place of worship of the mountain.
According to Japanese myth, it is understood that because Empress Jingà « buried her helmet when she went to subjugate Silla, a dynasty in the Korean Peninsula, this mountain was named 'Kabutoyama', literally "helmet mountain."