Oze National Park

Oze National Park
Oze National Park
尾瀬国立公園
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
	Mount Shibutsu and Ozegahara
	Oze National Park Location of Oze National Park Oze National Park Oze National Park (Japan)
Location	Kantō region, Japan
Coordinates	36°55′38″N 139°18′58″E / 36.92722°N 139.31611°E
Area	372.22 km2 (143.71 sq mi)
Established	August 30, 2007
Governing body	Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Oze
Designated	8 November 2005
Reference no.	1554

Oze National Park (尾瀬国立公園, Oze Kokuritsu Kōen), is an area consisting of open greenland in Fukushima, Tochigi, Gunma and Niigata Prefectures in Japan. The park is 372 km² in area and is the 29th national park in Japan.

Opened on 30 August 2007, the park's area includes the marshes (Ozegahara) and the mountains in the Oze area, formerly part of the Nikkō National Park, and other nearby areas including the Aizu-Komagatake and Tashiroyama mountains.^[2]

The park was the first new national park to open in 20 years, since the designation of Hokkaidō's Kushiro wetlands as a national park in 1987.^[3]

In Gunma's Jomo Karuta, Oze National Park is featured on the 'se' card.

References

^ "Oze". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
^ Rethink in cards on role of national parks, Asahi.com,18 April 2007, retrieved 30 August 2007
^ Oze to become Japan's 29th national park Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Japan News Review, 11 August 2007, retrieved 30 August 2007