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Towada-Hachimantai National Park

National Park in Tōhoku, Japan

40°43′59.88″N 140°43′1.2″E / 40.7333000°N 140.717000°E / 40.7333000; 140.717000Area854 square kilometres (330 sq mi)Established1 February 1936

Towada-Hachimantai National Park (十和田八幡平国立公園, Towada-Hachimantai Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park comprising two separate areas of Aomori, Iwate, and Akita Prefectures, Japan. The Towada-Hakkōda area encompasses Lake Towada, Mount Hakkōda, and most of the Oirase River valley. The Hachimantai area includes Mount Hachimantai, Mount Iwate, Tamagawa Onsen, and Akita Komagatake (秋田駒ヶ岳).^[1]^[2] The two areas are 50 kilometres (31 mi) apart, and cover 854 square kilometres (330 sq mi).^[3]

Related municipalities

Aomori: Aomori, Hirakawa, Kuroishi, Towada^[4]
Iwate: Hachimantai, Shizukuishi, Takizawa^[4]
Akita: Kazuno, Kosaka, Semboku^[4]

References

^ "Introducing places of interest: Towada-Hachimantai National Park". Ministry of the Environment. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
^ Sutherland, Mary; Britton, Dorothy (1995). National Parks of Japan. Kodansha. pp. 48–50. ISBN 4-7700-1971-8.
^ "Towada-Hachimantai National Park". Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Towada-Hachimantai National Park: basic information" (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.