Oze National Park

Oze National Park
尾瀬おぜ国立こくりつ公園こうえん
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
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 (尾瀬おぜ国立こくりつ公園こうえん, 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.

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.

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

See also

• List of national parks of Japan
• Mount Aizu-Komagatake
• Sanjō Falls
• Mount Hiuchigatake

External links

• (in English) Oze National Park - National Parks of Japan
• (in Japanese) Oze National Park - National Parks of Japan
• The Oze Preservation Foundation english website