Arakawa (Kantō)
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location | Japan | |
River system | Arakawa | |
source | on Mount Kobushi | |
muzzle | to Tokyo Bay Coordinates: 35 ° 38 ′ 20 ″ N , 139 ° 50 ′ 37 ″ E 35 ° 38 ′ 20 ″ N , 139 ° 50 ′ 37 ″ E
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length | 173 km | |
Catchment area | 2940 km² | |
Reservoirs flowed through | Urayama Dam (on the Urayama tributary) |
The Arakawa ( Japanese 荒 川 , dt. Wild river ) is a river on the Japanese main island of Honshū . It is 173 km long and has a catchment area of 2,940 km².
geography
It initially flows northeast as a mountain river from Kobushi Mountain until it turns southeast in the city of Kumagaya . It now flows through the southern part of the Kantō plain . In the city of Toda Arakawa forms the border between the Saitama Prefecture of Tokyo . In Kita , the Sumida branches off from him at the Iwabuchi lock . It flows into Tokyo Bay .
The current lower reaches of the Arakawa was completed in 1930 as Arakawa hōsuiro ("Arakawa drainage canal "), before that it flowed through today's Sumida . Until the 17th century, when the Tokugawa diverted the main stream of the Tone to the east, the Arakawa flowed through what is now the Moto-Arakawa into the Tone.
Course of the river
The Arakawa flows through the following places:
- Saitama Prefecture:
- Tokyo prefecture
Web links
- Regional Development Office Kantō of the MLIT : 荒 川 上流 河川 事務所 (Japanese: Arakawa jōryū kasen jimusho , "River Office Upper Arakawa") and 荒 川 下流 河川 事務所 (Japanese: Arakawa karyū kasen jimusho , "River Office Lower Arakawa"; English: Arakawa-Karyu River Office ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
- Regional Development Office Kantō of the MLIT, Tonegawa jōryū kasen jimusho ("river office upper reaches Tonegawa"): history of Tonegawa , 利 根 川 の 東遷 (Japanese: Tonegawa no tōsen , "eastward shifting of the clay")