Setonaikai National Park

Setonaikai National Park
瀬戸内海国立公園
IUCN category II (national park)
Naruto whirlpools
Location	Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Area	669.34 km²
Established	March 16, 1934[1]

Setonaikai National Park (瀬戸内海国立公園, Setonaikai Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park comprising areas of Japan's Inland Sea and of ten bordering Prefectures. Designated a national park in 1934, it has since been expanded several times. It contains about 3,000 islands, including the well-known Itsukushima. As the park is formed of many non-contiguous areas, and covering a tiny proportion of the Inland Sea's total extent, control and protection is problematic, with much of the wider area heavily industrialized.^[2][3]

Natural Areas

• Islands: Awaji Island (part), Bōyo Islands, Ieshima, Miyajima, Naoshima, Shiwaku Islands, Shōdoshima, Tomogashima
• Mountains: Mount Rokkō, Mount Maya, Mount Noro
• Straits: Akashi Strait, Hōyo Strait, Kitan Strait, Naruto Strait, Kanmon Straits
• Other: Naruto whirlpools^[4]

Cultural Sites

• Shrines: Itsukushima Jinja, Kotohira-gū, Mekari Shrine
• Temples: Futago-ji, Yashima-ji^[4]

Related Municipalities

The park crosses the borders of fifty-five cities, fourteen towns, and one village:^[1]

• Ehime: Ikata, Imabari, Kamijima, Matsuyama, Ōzu, Saijō, Yawatahama
• Fukuoka: Kitakyushu
• Hiroshima: Etajima, Fukuyama, Hatsukaichi, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Kure, Mihare, Onomichi, Ōsakikamijima, Ōtake, Saka, Takehara
• Hyōgo: Aioi, Akashi, Akō, Ashiya, Awaji, Himeji, Kobe, Minamiawaji, Nishinomiya, Sumoto, Takarazuka, Tatsuno
• Kagawa: Higashikagawa, Kan'onji, Kotohira, Mannō, Marugame, Mitoyo, Naoshima, Sakaide, Sanuki, Shōdoshima, Tadotsu, Takamatsu, Tonoshō, Zentsūji
• Ōita: Bungotakada, Himeshima, Kunisaki, Ōita
• Okayama: Asakuchi, Bizen, Kasaoka, Kurashiki, Okayama, Setouchi, Tamano
• Tokushima: Naruto
• Wakayama: Wakayama
• Yamaguchi: Hikari, Hirao, Hōfu, Iwakuni, Kaminoseki, Kudamatsu, Shimonoseki, Shūnan, Suō-Ōshima, Tabuse, Yanai

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Setonaikai National Park.

• List of national parks of Japan

References

External links

• (English) Setonaikai National Park
• (Japanese) Setonaikai National Park
• Map of Setonaikai National Park - Area 1
• Map of Setonaikai National Park - Area 2
• Map of Setonaikai National Park - Area 3
• Map of Setonaikai National Park - Area 4

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Coordinates: 34°10′N 133°20′E / 34.167°N 133.333°E / 34.167; 133.333