was a Prefectural Natural Park in northwest

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

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 ...

. Established in 1981, the park was within the municipality of

Satsumasendai is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The modern city of Satsumasendai was established on October 12, 2004, from the merger of the city of Sendai, the towns of Hiwaki, Iriki, Kedōin and Tōgō, and the Koshikijima Islands (which ...

. In 2015, the park was subsumed into

Koshikishima Quasi-National Park is a Quasi-National Park in the Koshikijima Islands of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 2015 and has a land area of alongside protected surrounding waters of . It subsumes the former Koshikijima Prefectural Natura ...

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