List of lakes in Japan
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Ranked by surface area.
| Rank | Name |
Region |
Prefecture¹ |
Municipalities | Water | Area (km²) |
Max Depth (m) |
Altitude (m) |
Volume (m³) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biwa | Kansai | Shiga | Ōtsu, Kusatsu, Higashi-Ōmi, Hikone Nagahama, Moriyama, Ōmi-Hachiman Takashima, Yasu, Maibara, Takatsuki Kohoku, Kinomoto, Nishi-Azai |
Fresh | 670.3 | 103.8 | 85 | 27500 |
| 2 | Kasumigaura | Kantō | Ibaraki | Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Omitama, Inashiki Ami, Kasumigaura, Namegata, Itako, Miho |
Fresh | 167.6 | 7.10 | 0 | 850 |
| 3 | Saroma | Hokkaidō | Abashiri | Kitami, Saroma, Yūbetsu | Brackish | 151.9 | 19.6 | 0 | 1300 |
| 4 | Inawashiro | Tōhoku | Fukushima | Kōriyama, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Inawashiro | Fresh | 103.3 | 17.1 | 514 | 5400 |
| 5 | Nakaumi | San'in | Shimane Tottori |
Matsue, Yonago, Yasugi Sakaiminato, Higashi-Izumo |
Brackish | 86.2 | 17.1 | 0 | 470 |
| 6 | Kussharo | Hokkaidō | Kushiro | Teshikaga | Fresh | 79.3 | 117.5 | 121 | 22500 |
| 7 | Shinji | San'in | Shimane | Matsue, Izumo, Hikawa | Brackish | 79.1 | 6.0 | 0 | 340 |
| 8 | Shikotsu | Hokkaidō | Ishikari | Chitose | Fresh | 78.4 | 360.1 | 247 | 20900 |
| 9 | Tōya | Hokkaidō | Iburi | Lake Tōya, Sōbetsu | Fresh | 70.7 | 179.9 | 84 | 8190 |
| 10 | Hamana | Tōkai | Shizuoka | Hamamatsu, Kosai, Arai | Brackish | 65.0 | 13.1 | 0 | 350 |
| 11 | Ogawara | Tōhoku | Aomori | Misawa, Tōhoku, Rokkasho | Brackish | 62.2 | 24.4 | 0 | 714 |
| 12 | Towada | Tōhoku | Aomori Akita |
Towada, Kosaka | Fresh | 61.0 | 326.8 | 400 | 4190 |
| 13 | Notoro | Hokkaidō | Abashiri | Abashiri | Brackish | 58.4 | 23.1 | 0 | |
| 14 | Fūren | Hokkaidō | Nemuro | Nemuro, Betsukai | Brackish | 57.5 | 13.0 | 0 | |
| 15 | Kitaura | Kantō | Ibaraki | Kashima, Hokota, Namegata, Itako | Fresh | 35.2 | 7.0 | 0 | |
| 16 | Abashiri | Hokkaidō | Abashiri | Abashiri, Ōzora | Brackish | 32.3 | 16.1 | 0 | |
| 17 | Akkeshi | Hokkaidō | Kushiro | Akkeshi, Hokkaidō | Fresh | 32.3 | 11.0 | 0 | |
| 18 | Hachirō | Tōhoku | Akita | Katagami, Oga, Gojōme, Ikawa, Ōgata | Fresh | 27.7 | 12.0 | 0 | |
| 19 | Tazawa | Tōhoku | Akita | Senboku | Fresh | 25.8 | 423.4 | 249 | 7200 |
| 20 | Mashū | Hokkaidō | Kushiro | Teshikaga | Fresh | 19.2 | 211.4 | 351 | |
| 21 | Jūsan | Tōhoku | Aomori | Goshogawara, Tsugaru, Nakadomari | Brackish | 18.1 | 1.5 | 0 | |
| 22 | Kutcharo | Hokkaidō | Sōya | Hamatonbetsu | Fresh | 13.3 | 3.3 | 0 | |
| 23 | Akan | Hokkaidō | Kushiro | Kushiro | Fresh | 13.0 | 44.8 | 420 | 249 |
| 24 | Suwa | Chūbu | Nagano | Okaya, Suwa, Shimo-Suwa | Fresh | 12.9 | 7.6 | 759 | 63 |
| 25 | Chūzenji | Kantō | Tochigi | Nikkō | Fresh | 11.8 | 163.0 | 1269 | |
| 26 | Ikeda | Kyūshū | Kagoshima | Ibusuki | Fresh | 10.9 | 233.0 | 66 |
1) For lakes in the Hokkaidō region, Subprefecture is listed
[edit] References
- (Japanese) The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport - Significant Lakes of Japan
- (Japanese) Wikipedia - List of lakes in Japan
[edit] See also
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