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Mount Tanzawa
is a mountain of the Tanzawa Mountains, with an elevation of . Its summit marks the border between Sagamihara is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city ..., Kiyokawa in Aikō District, and Yamakita in Ashigarakami District. Gallery Image:Tanzawa01.jpg, The top of Mount Tanzawa Image:Tanzawa02.jpg, The top of Mount Tanzawa Image:Tanzawa03.jpg, Mount Fuji from Mount Tanzawa Image:Tanzawa04.jpg, Mount Tanzawa from south Image:Tanzawa05.jpg, Mount Tanzawa from Mount Tō Image:Tanzawa06.jpg, Mount Tanzawa from Mount Sannotō Image:Tanzawa07.jpg, Mount Hiru, Mount Fudō and Mount Tanzawa from Mount Tō References Geographical Survey Institute Tanzawa Sagamihara Kiyokawa, Kanagawa Yamakita, Kanagawa {{Kanagawa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Fudō
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Mount Hiru
Mount Hiru (蛭ヶ岳 ''Hiru-ga-take'') is the tallest mountain of the Tanzawa Mountains The are a mountain range in the Kantō region in Japan. The mountain range covers the northwestern part of Kanagawa Prefecture and touches the prefecture borders of Shizuoka Prefecture to the west and the Yamanashi Prefecture to the north. Mou ... with a height of . Gallery Image:Mt.Hirugatake from Mt.Onigaiwanoatama01.JPG, Image:Tanzawa-shumyaku from Mt.Nabewari.jpg, Image:Tanzawa-shumyaku from Sagamihara 01.jpg, References Mapple Yamachizu Hiru {{Kanagawa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains And Hills Of Japan By Height ...
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height. Mountains over 1000 meters Mountains under 1000 meters As the generally accepted definition of a mountain (versus a hill) is 1000 m of height and 500 m of prominence, the following list is provided for convenience only. See also * List of Japanese prefectures by highest mountain References External links Mt. Nakanodake：Hiking route｜Snow Country* * Japan 100 Mountains {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Mountains And Hills Of Japan By Height Mountains of Japan Height Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is). For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane in-flight is abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzawa Mountains
The are a mountain range in the Kantō region in Japan. The mountain range covers the northwestern part of Kanagawa Prefecture and touches the prefecture borders of Shizuoka Prefecture to the west and the Yamanashi Prefecture to the north. Mountains *Mount Hiru (蛭ヶ岳 ''Hiru-ga-take'') * Mount Fudō (不動ノ峰 ''Fudō-no-mine'') * Mount Hinokiboramaru (檜洞丸 ''Hinokibora-maru'') * Mount Tanzawa (丹沢山 ''Tanzawa-san'') *Mount Tō (塔ノ岳 ''Tō-no-dake'') *Mount Shindainichi (新大日 ''Shin-dainichi'') * Mount Ōyama (大山 ''Ō-yama'') Activities and sites Hiking The mountain range offers moderate to strenuous trails. The most popular peaks among climbers are Mount Tō (塔ノ岳) and Mount Ōyama (大山) (in the eastern part of the mountains), mainly due to their easier transportation access from Yabitsu Pass. However, the tallest of these mountains is Mount Hiru, which is . In comparison, Mount Tō is 1,491 m (4,891 ft) high and Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographical Survey Institute
The , or GSI, is the national institution responsible for surveying and mapping the national land of Japan. The former name of the organization from 1949 until March 2010 was Geographical Survey Institute; despite the rename, it retains the same initials. It is an extraordinary organ of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Its main offices are situated in Tsukuba City of Ibaraki Prefecture. It also runs a museum, situated in Tsukuba, the Science Museum of Map and Survey. Earthquake Precursor Prediction Research Stationary MT monitoring systems have been installed in Japan since April 1996, providing a continuous recording of MT signals at the Mizusawa Geodetic Observatory and the Esashi Station of the GSI. These stations measure fluctuations in the earth's electromagnetic field that correspond with seismic activity. The raw geophysical time-series data from these monitoring stations is freely available to the scientific community, enabling further study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are Monadnock, isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountain formation, Mountains are formed through Tectonic plate, tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through Slump (geology), slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce Alpine climate, colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the Montane ecosystems, ecosys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagamihara, Kanagawa
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of the Greater Tokyo Area. Its northern neighbor is Machida, Tokyo, Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been proposed. On April 1, 2010, the city became the 19th Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, city designated by government ordinance. As a result of this, three wards were established: Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Midori-ku, Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Chūō-ku and Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Minami-ku. Geography Sagamihara covers a large area of northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. The main areas of commercial activity in Sagamihara are located near Hashimoto Station (Kanagawa), Hashimoto Station on the JR East Yokohama Line and Keio Saga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyokawa, Kanagawa
280px, Lake Miyagase is a village located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 2,858 and a population density of 40 persons per km². The total area of the village is . Geography Kiyokawa is located in the foothills of northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. Much of the village is in the Tanzawa Mountains. The village area is shaped like an upward triangle, and is roughly divided into the Miyagase district (former Miyagase village) in the north and the Susugaya district (former Susugaya village) in the south. The main population center and village hall are in the Susugaya area. The Miyagase Dam, which boasts one of the largest water storage capacity in the Kanto region, is in the Miyagase area, and as a result of the creation of the reservoir, most of the inhabitants of the Miyagase area were forced to relocated to neighboring Atsugi. Surrounding municipalities Kanagawa Prefecture *Sagamihara *Atsugi *Hadano * Aikawa * Yamakita Climate Kiyokawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aikō District, Kanagawa
is a district located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It currently consists of only one town, Aikawa, and one village, Kiyokawa. The city of Atsugi was formerly part of Aikō District. Towns and villages * Aikawa * Kiyokawa History Aikō District was one of the ancient subdivisions of Sagami Province, extending from central Sagami north to the border of Musashi Province between the Sagami River and the Tanzawa Mountains. The district offices were located in what is now part of Atsugi. The area was part of a vast '' shōen'' controlled by the Ōe clan, and their descendants, the Mōri clan of Chōshū from the Heian period through the Sengoku period. It later became a contested area between the later Hōjō clan of Odawara and the Takeda clan of Kai. In the Edo period, it was nominally part of Odawara Domain, although large portions were ''tenryō'' territory controlled by the ''shōgun'' in Edo through various ''hatamoto''. From 1706, a branch of the Ōkubo cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamakita, Kanagawa
260px, Lake Tazawa is a town located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 9,878 and a population density of 44 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Geography Yamakita is located in the mountainous western portion of Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Much of the town is within the boundaries of the Tanzawa-Ōyama Quasi-National Park is a quasi-national park in the Kantō region of Honshū in Japan. It is rated a protected landscape (category V) according to the IUCN. The park includes the Tanzawa Mountains, Miyagase Dam and its surrounding forests, Hayato Great Falls, and th .... Yamakita is approximately 50 kilometers west of Yokohama. Lake Tanzawa is located in the center of the town. Surrounding municipalities Kanagawa Prefecture *Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Sagamihara *Hadano, Kanagawa, Hadano *Minamiashigara, Kanagawa, Minamiashigara *Nakai, Kanagawa, Nakai *Matsuda, Kanagawa, Matsuda, Kaisei, Kana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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