Hiba-Dogo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park

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Hiba-Dogo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park (比婆道後帝釈国定公園, Hiba-Dōgo-Taishaku Kokutei Kōen^?) is one of the Quasi-National Parks in Japan.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Mountains 3 Ravines 4 Lakes 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Overview

Hiba-Dogo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park is located around Hiroshima Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture and Tottori Prefecture.

The park has the area of 78 km² and it was designated as the Quasi-National Park in 1963.

There are a lot of beautiful mountain and ravines include Mount Hiba (比婆山, Hiba-yama^?), Mount Azuma (吾妻山, Azuma-yama^?), Mount Santsū (船通山, Sentsū-zan^?), Mount Dōgo (道後山, Dōgo-yama^?) and Taishaku ravine (帝釈峡, Taishaku-kyō^?).

There are virgin forests of Japanese beechs, Japanese oaks, Japanese horse chestnut and interesting fern.

There are asiatic black bears, Japanese macaques, mountain hawk eagle and Japanese giant salamanders.

[edit] Mountains

• Mount Hiba (1,299m)
• Mount Azuma (1,240m)
• Mount Santsū (1,142m)
• Mount Dōgo (1,271m)

[edit] Ravines

• Taishaku-kyō

[edit] Lakes

• Lake Shinryū

[edit] See also

• List of national parks of Japan

[edit] External links

• Ministry of the Environment