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Mount Tsurumi is a lava dome. It has several peaks, including Mount Kuranoto, Mount Uchi, and Mount Garan. It has several peaks, including Mount Kuranoto, Mount Uchi, and Mount Garan. This mountain is one of the Japan 300 mountains , and a part of Aso Kujū National Park .
Tsurumi-ryokuchi Station (鶴見緑地駅, Tsurumi-ryokuchi-eki, Station Number: N26) is a train station on the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Tsurumi-ku, Osaka, Japan. [1] The line was opened to provide access to Tsurumi-ryokuchi Park during the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition .
Minamitorishima (南鳥島, lit."Southern Bird Island") (pronounced: [minamitoɾiɕi̥ma]) sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1,848 km (998 nmi; 1,148 mi) southeast of Tokyo and 1,267 km (684 nmi; 787 mi) east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the ...
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Keizan, later known as Sōtō's great patriarch Taiso Jōsai Daishi, founded the present temple in 1321, [3] when he renamed it Sōji-ji with the help and patronage of Emperor Go-Daigo. [4] [5] The temple has about twelve buildings in Tsurumi, part of the port city of Yokohama, one designed by the architect Itō Chūta.
Freight services started on 1 April 1898. The Keihin Line began operations to Tsurumi from 20 December 1914. On 23 December 1934, the Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (present-day Tsurumi Line) connected to Tsurumi Station. The station was the location of a major railway accident, the Tsurumi Accident on 9 November 1963. It was one of the five major post ...
Tsurumi was connected to Yokohama and Tokyo by train in 1872, and the area rapidly urbanized. Sōji-ji, the head temple of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism relocated to Tsurumi from Ishikawa Prefecture in 1911. Tsurumi suffered severe damage from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. In April 1924, Tsurumi became a town within Tachibana District.
View of Ganryū-jima island Ganryū-jima ( 巌流島 , formerly Funa-jima 船島 [ 1 ] ) is an island in Japan located between Honshū and Kyūshū , and accessible via ferry from Shimonoseki Harbor ( 下関港 ) .