'' is a Special Natural Monument designated under
Criterion 1.2: "Animals which are not peculiar to Japan, but need to be preserved as well-known characteristic Japanese animals, and their habitat" The
Agency for Cultural Affairs designates monuments based on a number of
criteria. A monument can be designated based on multiple criteria.
Historic Sites and Special Historic Sites • Shell mounds, settlement ruins,
kofun, other historic ruins of this type • Ruins of fortified towns, castles, government administration offices, old battlefields and other historic ruins related to politics or government • Remains of shrines and temples, former compound grounds and other historic ruins related to religion • Schools, research institutions, cultural facilities and other historic ruins related to education, learning or culture • Medical care and welfare facilities, life related institution, other society and life related historic ruins • Transport and communication facilities, forest conservation and flood control facilities, manufacture facilities and other historic sites related to finance or manufacture activities • Graves and stone monuments with inscriptions • Former residences, gardens, ponds and other areas of particular historical significance • Ruins related to foreign countries or foreigners
Places of Scenic Beauty and Special Places of Scenic Beauty • Parks and gardens • Bridges and embankments • Flowering trees, flowering grass, autumn colors, green trees and other places of dense growth • Places inhabited by birds and wild animals, fish/insects and others • Rocks, caves • Ravines, gorges, waterfalls, mountain streams, abysses • Lakes, marshes, wetlands, floating islands, springs • Sand dunes,
spits, seasides, islands • Volcanoes,
onsen • Mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, rivers • Viewpoints
Natural Monuments and Special Natural Monuments • Animals • Well-known animals peculiar to Japan and their habitat • Animals which are not peculiar to Japan, but need to be preserved as well-known characteristic Japanese animals, and their habitat • Animals or animal groups peculiar to Japan within their natural environment • Domestic animals peculiar to Japan • Well-known imported animals presently in a wild state, with the exception of domestic animals; their habitat • Particularly valuable animal specimen • Plants, vegetation • Old trees of historic interest, gigantic trees, old trees, deformed trees, cultivated pulpwood, roadside trees, shrine forests • Representative primeval forests, rare forest flora • Representative alpine plants, special clusters of plants on rock ground • Representative clusters of waste land plants • Representative examples of coastal and sand ground vegetation • Representative examples of areas of peat forming plants • Clusters of plants growing in caves or grottoes • Rare water plants in garden ponds,
onsen, lakes, marshes, streams, sea, etc.; algae, moss, microbes, etc. • Remarkable occurrence of
epiphytic plants on rocks, trees or shrubs • Remarkable plant growth on marginal land • Remarkable growth in the wild of crop plants • Wild habitat of rare or near extinct plants • Geological and mineralogical features • Rocks, mineral and fossil producing sites •
Conformable and unconformable
strata • Fold and thrust
strata • Geological features caused by the work of living creatures • Phenomena related to earthquake dislocation and landmass motion • Caves, grottoes • Examples of rock organization •
Onsen and their sediments • Erosion and weathering related phenomena •
Fumaroles and other items related to volcanic activity • Ice and frost related phenomena • Particularly precious rock, mineral and fossil specimen • Representative territories rich in natural monuments to be protected (Natural Protected Areas) ==Registered Monuments==