Oguni-numa Pond

Oguni-numa Pond (

Japanese Kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequent ...

: 雄国沼; Japanese Hiragana: おぐにぬま) is a

pond A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Defining them to be less than in area, less than deep, and with less than 30% emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing their ecology from ...

located at the western base of

Mount Nekomadake is a stratovolcano located west of Mount Bandai, close to Bandai town and Kitashiobara village in the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It is 1,403.6 metres high, and close to Lake Inawashiro and Oguni-numa Pond. See also *List of volcanoes in ...

in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The pond is situated on the remains of a crater and has a

circumference In geometry, the circumference (from Latin ''circumferens'', meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. That is, the circumference would be the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out t ...

of 4 km and an area of 45

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s. It is considered a national monument. Tourist attractions in Fukushima Prefecture Landforms of Fukushima Prefecture Ponds of Japan Bodies of water of Japan {{Fukushima-geo-stub