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The Diet of Japan designated Nikkō an imperial park (帝国公園, teikoku kōen) in 1911. The National Parks Law was passed in 1931, and Nikkō National Park was established in 1934. [1] The park was expanded throughout the 20th century. Oze National Park was once part of Nikkō National Park, but became a separate national park in 2007. [2]
Shikotsu-Tōya National Park (支笏洞爺国立公園, Shikotsu Tōya Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in the western part of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. Named after the volcanic caldera lakes of Lake Shikotsu and Lake Tōya , it has a total area of 993.02 square kilometers.
Itsukushima in Setonaikai National Park, the first of Japan's national parks (established 1934). National parks (国立公園, Kokuritsu Kōen) and quasi-national parks (国定公園, Kokutei Kōen) of Japan are places of scenic beauty that are designated for protection and sustainable use by the Minister of the Environment under the Natural Parks Law (自然公園法) of 1957. [1]
[5] Many current national parks had been previously protected as national monuments by the president under the Antiquities Act or as other designations created by Congress before being redesignated by Congress; the newest national park is New River Gorge, previously a National River, and the most recent entirely new park is National Park of ...
Daisetsuzan National Park was created in 1934. [8] Daisetsuzan is the largest national park in Japan. Its area includes 230,000 ha (568,000 acres) in the mountains in the center of Hokkaido. [ 9 ]
The park has a hot springs waterfall called Kamuiwakka Falls (カムイワッカの滝, Kamuiwakka-no-taki). Kamui wakka means "water of the gods" in Ainu. The forests of the park are temperate and subalpine mixed forests; the main tree species include Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis), Erman's birch (Betula ermanii) and Mongolian oak (Quercus ...
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park of the United States in Ohio that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The 32,783-acre (51.2 sq mi; 132.7 km 2 ) park [ 1 ] is administered by the National Park Service , but within its boundaries are areas ...
The park is 372 km 2 in area and is the 29th national park in Japan. Opened on 30 August 2007, the park's area includes the marshes ( Ozegahara ) and the mountains in the Oze area, formerly part of the Nikkō National Park , and other nearby areas including the Aizu-Komagatake and Tashiroyama mountains.