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The Best Attractions In Gunma Prefecture

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The Best Attractions In Gunma Prefecture

  • 3. Lake Haruna Takasaki
    Lake Haruna is a caldera lake. It lies near the summit of Mount Haruna, within the city limits of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. A former name for the lake is Lake Ikaho . In the summer, the lake is a popular destination for campers. The surface freezes in the winter, and it affords skating and ice fishing for wakasagi. The lake lies a 90-minute bus ride from Takasaki Station. It can be reached in 40 minutes by car from Shibukawa-Ikaho Interchange, #12 on the Kan-Etsu Expressway. A kayōkyoku refers to the lake in its title. Akira Fuse recorded the tune, named Haruna-ko no shōjo. The music is by Rei Nakanishi and the lyrics by Ken'ichirō Morioka. Parts of the anime and manga Initial D take place on or around the lake, under the fictional name Lake Akina, as Mount Haruna - named Akina...
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  • 4. Haruna Shrine Takasaki
    Mount Haruna is a dormant stratovolcano in Gunma, eastern Honshū, Japan.
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  • 7. Mount Haruna Gunma Prefecture
    Mount Haruna is a dormant stratovolcano in Gunma, eastern Honshū, Japan.
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  • 8. Akagi-yama Gunma Prefecture
    Mount Akagi is a mountain in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, 3 x 4 km summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW-SE line. Lake Ono is located at the NE end of the caldera. An older stratovolcano was partially destroyed by edifice collapse, producing a debris-avalanche deposit along the south flank. A series of large plinian eruptions accompanied growth of a second stratovolcano during the Pleistocene. Construction of the central cone in the late-Pleistocene summit caldera began following the last of the plinian eruptions about 31,000 years ago. During historical time unusual activity was recorded on several occasions during the 9th century, but reporte...
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  • 9. Tonegawa River Gunma Prefecture
    The Tone River is a river in the Kantō region of Japan. It is 322 kilometers in length and has a drainage area of 16,840 square kilometers . It is nicknamed Bandō Tarō ; Bandō is an obsolete alias of the Kantō Region, and Tarō is a popular given name for an oldest son. It is regarded as one of the Three Greatest Rivers of Japan, the others being the Yoshino in Shikoku and the Chikugo in Kyūshū.
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