Akkadō
Sign in to save, located in Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, is the longest limestone cavern in Japan, with a measured length of . The cave system was designated as a natural monument by the Japanese government in 1980. Since 1991, a portion of the caverns have been open to the public for part of the year.
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- Instance of
- solutional cave
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Iwaizumi
- Official website
- www.town.iwaizumi.lg.jp/docs/2016022400177
- Image
- Akkado SHINDEN.jpg
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- Commons category
- Akkado
- native label
- 安家洞
- heritage designation
- natural monument
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, located in Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, is the longest limestone cavern in Japan, with a measured length of . The cave system was designated as a natural monument by the Japanese government in 1980. Since 1991, a portion of the caverns have been open to the public for part of the year.
== Outline== There are flowstones and a subterranean lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akkadō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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