Mount Mitake is the highest mountain in the Taki Mountains, including Mount Nishigatake and Mount Koganegadake. The Taki Mountains were one of the most holiest places for shugendō from Kamakura period to Muromachi period. However, Tanba Shugendō, a sect of Shugendo in Tanba Province, lost against Yamato Shugendō, another Shugendo sect of Yamato Province including Mount Ōmine, all of the temples in the Taki Mountains were burned in 1482.