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Relief Map of Akagi Volcano. Mount Akagi (赤城山, Akagi-yama, Red Castle) is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, 3 km × 4 km (1.9 mi × 2.5 mi) summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW ...
Battle of Midway. Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down as an Amagi -class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
To the west is Mount Haruna, and to the east is Mount Akagi. To the north are Mount Onoko and Mount Komochi. The Tone River flows from the north (between Mount Akagi and Mount Komochi) southward through the city, while the Agatsuma River flows from the west (between Mount Onoko and Mount Haruna), merging with the Tone River near the center of ...
The Takizawa Stone Age Site (瀧沢石器時代遺跡, Takizawa sekki-jidai ato) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a Jōmon period settlement located in what is now the Akagi neighborhood of the city of Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan ...
The Maefutago Kofun is located on a low hill at the southern foot of Mount Akagi. It is a zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. The tumulus has a total length of 94 meters, with a posterior circular portion in two tiers and an anterior rectangular ...
1990. Public access. Yes (archaeological park) National Historic Site of Japan. The Teranohigashi Site (寺野東遺跡, Teranohigashi iseki) is a complex archaeological site in the city of Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1995 by the Japanese government.
Maebashi is located at the foot of Mount Akagi in the northeast corner of the Kantō Plain. It is also surrounded by Mount Haruna and Mount Myōgi. Two rivers run through the city: the Tone River, Japan's second-longest, and the Hirose River. Although it is located inland more than 100 kilometers away from the coast, the elevation of the ...
Mount Akagi (Akagi Komagatake) a mountain in Gunma prefecture; Mount Echigo-Komagatake (Echigo Komagatake), also named Uonuma Komagatake, a mountain in Niigata prefecture; Hokkaidō Komagatake, an active volcano in Hokkaidō; Mount Kaikoma (Kai Komagatake), a mountain in the Akaishi Mountains on the border of Yamanashi prefecture and Nagano ...