National parks in Japan
Location of the 34 national parks (as of Sep. 2017) |
The national parks ( Japanese 国立 公園 , kokuritsu kōen ) in Japan are appointed by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment . They are supposed to represent the most beautiful natural areas in Japan.
Besides the national parks there are u. a. also quasi national parks and the prefectural nature parks , which also belong to the nature reserves . There are 34 national parks, 56 quasi-national parks and 306 prefecture nature parks (as of July 26, 2017). The land area of the national parks covers an area of over 21,898.04 km² (as of March 31, 2017), which corresponds to 5.8% of the total area of Japan.
history
Japan's first national park law was passed in 1931. Three years later, the first three national parks were named: Setonaikai National Park , Unzen National Park (today: Unzen Amakusa National Park ) and Kirishima National Park (later Kirishima Yaku National Park , today: Kirishima Kinkōwan National Park ). In the same year five other national parks were added with Aso , Nikkō , Japanese Alps , Akan and Daisetsuzan and two years later Towada , Fuji-Hakone , Yoshino-Kumano and Daisen . After the Second World War, these 12 national parks were expanded by 22 more between 1949 and today. In addition, the National Park Act of 1931 was replaced by a more comprehensive one in 1957, which also introduced the division into national parks, quasi-national parks and prefecture parks. In 1972 the management of the national parks was transferred from the Japanese Ministry of Health to the Ministry of the Environment.
List of national parks
In the following, the national parks are sorted in descending order by area (as of August 31, 1994). In the national parks that are located on the island of Hokkaidō, their respective sub-prefectures were named instead of the prefecture Hokkaidō.
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See also
Web links
- List with description of Japanese national parks (German)
- Map of all National Parks (English)
- Statistics on protected areas in Japan (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics on nature reserves in Japan at protectedplanet.net . Retrieved July 26, 2017 (English).
- ↑ 国立 公園 地 種 区 分別 面積 . Ministry of the Environment of Japan, March 31, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 (Japanese).
- ^ List of National and Quasi-national Parks . Ministry of the Environment of Japan, accessed December 17, 2019 .
- ^ Statistics from the Japanese Ministry of the Environment . Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 2016, accessed December 25, 2019 .