Nakaumi ( 中海 ) is a brackish lake located between Tottori and Shimane prefectures in Japan . The lake is enclosed by the Shimane Peninsula to the north and Yumigahama Peninsula to the east. It is the fifth largest lake in surface area in Japan.
2-540: Nakaumi connects Lake Shinji (宍道湖 Shinji-ko ) and the Sea of Japan , and is surrounded by the municipalities Matsue , Yasugi , Yonago and Sakaiminato . There are two large islands in the lake, Daikon Island (大根島 Daikonjima , literally " radish island") and Eshima Island (江島 Eshima , "inlet island"). There are bridges (like the Eshima Ohashi Bridge ) and roads that connect the east and west shores of
4-528: The lake through the two islands. Nakaumi is a brackish lake because it is connected to the Sea of Japan by a short channel, the Sakai Channel , and lies so low that the tides reverse the flow of the rivers all the way into Lake Shinji. Nakaumi (中海) literally means "middle sea". Even though Nakaumi is a lake, it was likely named a sea because of its saline water and proximity to the actual sea. In Japanese ,
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