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Mount Aso
Japan > Aso County > Minamiaso
With an elevation of 1,143 metres (3,750 ft)., Mount Aso has a climate that falls as humid continental (Köppen climate classification "Dfb"), with warm summers and cold winters. Precipitation is high throughout the year, which brings the area to have borderline subtropical characteristics as well. It is…
Average elevation: 1,254 m
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Ohtawara
Ōtawara is located in northeast Tochigi Prefecture in the foothills of the Nasu region. About 50% of Ōtawara is covered by rice fields with about 12% being mountains and forests. The average elevation of Ōtawara is 217.76 meters. Ōtawara is approximately 40 kilometers north of Utsunomiya, the capital of…
Average elevation: 276 m
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Mount Tateshina
It has an elevation of 2,530 m (8,301 ft). This mountain is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Average elevation: 2,082 m
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Yuza
Yuza is located in the extreme northwest of Yamagata Prefecture, bordering on Akita Prefecture to the north and the Sea of Japan on the west. It is situated at the northern end of the Shōnai Plain, with the Gekkō River running across the town. Mount Chōkai, which has the second highest elevation in the…
Average elevation: 244 m
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Inzai
Inzai is located in the important area of northern Chiba Prefecture connecting Tokyo and Narita. Besides Tone River that flows in the north, Lake Tega that lies in the north-west, Lake Inba that lies in the south-east of the city, the city is also surrounded by natural environment such as natural forest. the…
Average elevation: 15 m
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Nagano
Nagano (長野市, Nagano-shi, pronounced [nagaꜜno ɕi]) is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, located in the Nagano Basin (Zenkoji Daira) in the central Chūbu region of Japan. Nagano is categorized as a core city of Japan. Nagano City is the highest prefectural capital in Japan, with an…
Average elevation: 828 m
Ozegahara
Japan > Minamiaizu County > Hinoemata
Ozegahara (尾瀬ヶ原) is a high altitude marshland in the Oze National Park, Japan.
Average elevation: 1,595 m
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Sado Island
Sado Island (佐渡島, Sado(ga)shima; Japanese pronunciation: [sa.do.ɡaꜜ.ɕi.ma, -do.ŋaꜜ-]) is an island located in the eastern part of the Sea of Japan, under the jurisdiction of Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, with a coastline of 262.7 kilometres (163.2 mi). In October 2017, Sado Island had a…
Average elevation: 60 m
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Amami Islands
The Amami Islands are limestone islands of coralline origin and have a total area of approximately 1,240.28 square kilometres (478.87 sq mi), of which 308.3 square kilometres (119.0 sq mi) constitute the city (-shi) of Amami, and 931.9 square kilometres (359.8 sq mi) constitute the district (-gun) of Oshima.…
Average elevation: 6 m
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Kamakura
The Kamakura shogunate era is called by historians the Kamakura period and, although its end is clearly set (Siege of Kamakura (1333)), its beginning is not. Different historians put Kamakura's beginning at a different point in time within a range that goes from the establishment of Yoritomo's first military…
Average elevation: 34 m
Otaru
Otaru is a port town on the coast of the Sea of Japan in northern Shiribeshi Subprefecture. The southern portion of the city is characterized by the steep slopes of various mountains (notably Tenguyama), where the altitude of the land sharply drops from the mountains to the sea. The land available between the…
Average elevation: 79 m
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Kanto
The surface geology of the Kantō Plain is the Quaternary alluvium and diluvium. The low mountain vegetation at an altitude of about 500 to 900 m in and around the plain is an evergreen broad-leaved forest zone. The distribution height range of laurel forests is 900 m in Hakone, about 800 m in Tanzawa and…
Average elevation: 29 m
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