Tsugaru Quasi-National Park ( 津軽国定公園 , Tsugaru Kokutei Kōen ) is a quasi-national park in Aomori Prefecture in the far northern Tōhoku region of Honshū in Japan . It is rated a protected landscape (category V) according to the IUCN . The park includes a number of discontinuous areas on Tsugaru Peninsula , including the volcanic peaks of Mount Iwaki , a portion of the primeval Siebold's beech forests of Shirakami-Sanchi UNESCO World Heritage Site , Cape Tappi , other coastal areas of northern Tsugaru Peninsula, and the wetlands of Juniko and Jusanko lakes and marshes.
7-458: The area was designated a quasi-national park on 31 March 1975. It spans the borders of the municipalities of Hirosaki , Goshogawara , Tsugaru , Imabetsu , Sotogahama , Ajigasawa , Fukaura , and Nakadomari . Like all quasi-national parks in Japan, the park is managed by the local prefectural government, in this case, that of Aomori Prefecture. This Aomori Prefecture location article
14-404: A municipal village might even contain a section with the same type of designation. Although the kanji is the same, neither of these individual sections are municipalities unto themselves. Sometimes, the section name is a remnant from gappei , a system where several adjacent communities merge to form a larger municipality, where the old town names are kept for a section of the new city, even though
21-399: A village or town can be promoted to a city when its population increases above fifty thousand, and a city can (but need not) be demoted to a town or village when its population decreases below fifty thousand. The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaidō , has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaidō , has nearly forty thousand residents, and
28-662: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a national/quasi-national park or protected area in Japan, or related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Japan Japan has three levels of governments: national , prefectural , and municipal . The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total as of January 2014. There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities , towns , villages and special wards of Tokyo ( ku ). In Japanese , this system
35-409: Is known as shikuchōson ( 市区町村 ) , where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards. But, unlike the special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities. The status of a municipality, if it is a village, town or city, is decided by the prefectural government. Generally,
42-470: The 23 special wards as a whole are regarded as one city. For information on the former city of Tokyo, see Tokyo City ; for information about present-day Tokyo Prefecture, see Tokyo . See List of cities in Japan for a complete list of cities. See also : Core cities of Japan The following are examples of the 20 designated cities : The same kanji which designates a town (町) is also sometimes used for addresses of sections of an urban area. In rare cases,
49-455: The country's largest village Yomitan, Okinawa has a population of 40,517. The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has city status. Tokyo Prefecture now encompasses 23 special wards, each a city unto itself, as well as many other cities, towns and even villages on the Japanese mainland and outlying islands. Each of the 23 special wards of Tokyo is legally equivalent to a city, though sometimes
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