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Exploring Central Honshu

Suzu-misaki
The smooth cone of Mount Fuji – one of the NOTO
great icons of Japan – rises from the Kanto Wajima PENINSULA Suzu
Plain to the west of Tokyo, and is open to
pilgrims and casual hikers in summer. Noto
Beyond this is the largely mountainous Sea of Japan Nagaoka
(East Sea)
area known to the Japanese as Chubu. Togi Noto-jima Joetsu
A cluster of cultural and scenic destinations, Nanao Itoigawa
including Fuji, Hakone, Kamakura, and Asahi Arai
much of the industrialized Pacific coast, Himi Kurobe Myoko-san
2,446 m
are an easy day trip from Tokyo. Other Hakui Iiyama Nagaoka
areas, especially the more rural regions Takaoka Uozu Shirouma-dake
2,932 m
such as the Kiso and Shokawa valleys Oyabe NAGANO
and the Noto Peninsula, are harder Tsubata Tonami Toyama Nor th
to reach and require more HOKURIKU EXPRESSWAY Tate-yama Japan Suzaka GUNMA JOETSU SHINKANSEN
TOYAMA
time to explore. KANAZAWA Johana 3,015 m Alps Shibukawa
Omachi Ueda Asama-yama
2,560 m
Komatsu Gokayama Maebashi
Yariga-take Takasaki
Kamioka
Kaga ISHIKAWA 3,180 m Komoro Isesaki Utsunomiya
Shirakawa Furukawa MATSUMOTO Tomioka Sano
EIHEI-JI KAMIKOCHI JOSHINETSU EXPRESSWAY Kumagaya Koga
TEMPLE Haku-san Shiojiri KANETSU EXPRESSWAY TOBOKU EXPRESSWAY
2,702 m TAKAYAMA Koumi
Fukui Katsuyama Norikura-dake Okaya SAITAMA TOBOKU SHINKANSEN Mito
3,026m
TOKAI-HOKURIKU EXPRESSWAY GIFU Gero Fukushima Kawaguchi Kashiwa NARITA
Sabae Ono SHOKAWA NAGANO Chino Yatsuga-take Chichibu Ageo JOBAN EXPRESSWAY
VALLEY
Ryugasaki
2,899 m
FUKUI Shirotori Ontake-san Ina CHICHIBU-TAMA-KAI KAWAGOE Urawa
3,063m
NATIONAL PARK
Kiso-
Nogohaku-san Okutama Asahi
Imajo 1,617 m Hachiman Nirasaki TOKYO Funabashi
KISO VALLEY
Kyoto Kanayama TOUR CHUO EXPRESSWAY Shirane-san Kofu Enzan Otsuki Hachioji TOKYO Chiba CHIBA
3192m
Seki Nakatsugawa Tenryu-gawa YAMANASHI Kawasaki Ichihara Togane
Fujiyoshida
GIFU Minokamo Iida KANAGAWA YOKOHAMA Mobara
MOUNT FUJI
Wasabi fields north of Ogaki Ena-san AND THE FUJI Hadano Fujisawa Kisarazu
2,190 m
Matsumoto INUYAMA Mizunami FIVE LAKES Gotenba Hiratsuka Yokosuka
Odawara KAMAKURA Boso Ohara
Tsushima Kasugai Fujinomiya Fuji Peninsula
NAGOYA AICHI South HAKONE Miura Futtsu Katsuura
Kuwana Toyota Japan SHIZUOKA Numazu Atami Kamogawa
Sights at a Glance Ise Yokkaichi Tokai Okazaki Alps Shimizu Ito Tateyama
1 Narita Anjo SHIZUOKA Toi
2 Kawagoe Tokoname Tenryu Yaizu Shuzenji Amagi-san
3 Yokohama pp136–7 Gamagori TOKAIDO SHINKANSEN Kakegawa Shimada 1,406 m
TOMEI EXPRESSWAY
4 Kamakura pp138–40 Matsuzaki IZU PENINSULA Oshima Island
5 Chichibu-Tama National Park Toyohashi Higashi-Izu Mihara-yama
758 m
6 Hakone Tahara Hamamatsu Shimoda
7 Izu Peninsula Omae-zaki Iro-zaki
8 Mount Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes
pp144–5
9 Shizuoka
q Nagoya i Noto Peninsula Nii-jima
w Inuyama o Kamikochi
e Gifu p Matsumoto Kozu-shima
r Takayama pp148–50 a Nagano
t Shokawa Valley Miyake-jima
y Kanazawa pp152–3 Tour 0 kilometers 50
u Eihei-ji Temple 0 Kiso Valley Tour 0 miles 30
For hotels and restaurants see p303 and pp326–9
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