Suigō Prefectural Natural Park
Kisosaki, Japan · built 1953
Suigō Prefectural Natural Park (Suigō kenritsu shizen kōen) is a Prefectural Natural Park in northeast Mie Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1953, the park comprises one unified area that spans the borders of the municipalities of Kuwana and Kisosaki. In Heisei 16 (2004), nearly six-and-a-half million visitors entered the park, making it second in the prefecture, amongst its Natural Parks, to Ise-Shima National Park, and exceeding the number of visitors to Yoshino-Kumano National Park, Suzuka Quasi-National Park, and Murō-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park. As of 31 March 2020, of its total designated area of 6,842 hectares (16, 910 acres), state land totalled 2,362 hectares (5, 840 acres), other public land 114 hectares (280 acres), and private land 4,366 hectares (10, 790 acres). The park consists of an Ordinary Zone to the East, in the Kiso-sansen alluvial delta, where the Ibi, Nagara, and Kiso Rivers flow down into Ise Bay, and a Special Zone (subdivided into Class 1, 2, and 3 Special Zones) to the northwest, around Mount Tado at the southern end of the Yōrō Mountains. To the northeast, the park adjoins Senbon-matsubara in Gifu Prefecture, a flood-control initiative following the 1754 Hōreki River incident, and now protected within Senbon Matsubara Prefectural Natural Park. Within the park, features of natural and cultural interest include Tado Taisha, the National Natural Mon
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