is a

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

Niigata Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...

and

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

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 2015, and formerly part of

Jōshin'etsu-kōgen National Park is a national park in the Chūbu region of the main island of Honshū, Japan formed around several active and dormant volcanoes. It spans the mountainous areas of Gunma, Nagano, and Niigata prefectures. The name refers to the two mountain rang ...

, the park comprises an area of in the

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Itoigawa is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 41,333, and a population density of 55 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Itoigawa is located in the far southwestern corner of ...

and Myōkō in Niigata Prefecture and

Iizuna is a town located in the Kamiminochi District of norther Nagano Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 11,115 in 4187 households, and a population density of 150 persons per km2. the total area of the town is . Geography I ...

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ...

, Otari, and Shinano in Nagano Prefecture. Prominent mountains of the park include

Mount Hiuchi is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, reaching the height of . It is situated in Japan's Kubiki Mountains in Niigata Prefecture. It was specified for Jōshin'etsu Kōgen National Park on July 10, 1956, but since has been absorbed by th ...

(2,462m),

Mount Myōkō is an active Active may refer to: Music * ''Active'' (album), a 1992 album by Casiopea * Active Records, a record label Ships * ''Active'' (ship), several commercial ships by that name * HMS ''Active'', the name of various ships of ...

(2,454m),

Niigata-Yake-Yama is an active volcano in Honshu, Japan. A large eruption in 887 AD sent pyroclastic flows all the way to the Japan Sea. Morphology The volcano takes the form of a lava dome that was built above a ridge of a Tertiary mountain range near the Japa ...

(2,400m,),

Mount Takatsuma at straddles the border between Nagano and Niigata prefectures, in the northwest of the city of Nagano and southwest of the city of Myōkō (Niigata Prefecture), and is also the boundary between the Kanto and Chubu regional offices of the Ja ...

(2,353m),

Mount Kurohime Mount Kurohime (Japanese: 黒姫山 ''Kurohime-yama'') is a stratovolcano located in Shinano town (信濃町), Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The mountain is one of the 200 most famous mountains in Japan (日本に百名山), and one of the 100 most ...

(2,054m),

Mount Iizuna , also written as 飯綱山 (Iizuna-yama), is a mountain located ten kilometers north-northwest of the heart of Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The mountain straddles the city of Nagano and Iizuna, Iizuna town in Kamiminochi Di ...

(1,917m), and

Mount Togakushi Mount Togakushi () is located in the former village of Togakushi, now located within the city of Nagano, Nagano, Japan. The mountain is 1904 meters (6247 ft) high. Mount Togakushi has traditionally been included in the Five Mountains of Northern ...

(1,904m). Other features include

Lake Nojiri is in the town of Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Second to Lake Suwa among lakes in Nagano Prefecture, Nojiri is a resort, the location of the first pumped-storage hydroelectricity in Japan, and the site of a Japanese P ...

and Lake Reisenji. . File:Kagami-ike Pond, Togakushi.jpg, Kagami-ike Pond, in

Togakushi, Nagano was a village located in the mountainous Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Part of Togakushi is located in Myōkō-Togakushi Renzan National Park, and includes Mount Takatsuma (2353m), the highest peak in the Togakushi Mountain Ra ...

2019. File:戸隠の鏡池 Kagamiike-pond in Togakushi (8146623275).jpg, Kagamiike-pond File:火打山から見た妙高山.jpg, Mount Hiuchi File:Naena Falls 2.jpg, Naena Falls File:Imori-ike with Mout Myoko (7697997840).jpg, Mount Myoko

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Map of Myōkō-Togakushi Renzan National Park (North)
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Map of Myōkō-Togakushi Renzan National Park (South)
National parks of Japan Parks and gardens in Niigata Prefecture Parks and gardens in Nagano Prefecture Protected areas established in 2015 2015 establishments in Japan {{Japan-protected-area-stub

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