Maesawa Dam
Maesawa Dam is an earthfill dam located in Gifu Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 4.8 km2. The dam impounds about 19 ha of land when full and can store 2025 thousand cubic meters of water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oniiwa Park and 正願寺.
Oniiwa Park
Park
Photo: Ans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oniiwa Park is a park on the border of Mitake, Kani District and Mizunami in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is located in Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park. Oniiwa is a Japanese government designated Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument. Oniiwa Park is situated 2½ km south of Maesawa Dam.
正願寺
Buddhist temple
Photo: 大野 一将, CC BY-SA 4.0.
正願寺 is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Maesawa Dam.
Hosokute-juku
Photo: Hiroshige, Public domain.
Hosokute-juku was the forty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the city of Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Hosokute-juku is situated 3½ km east of Maesawa Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitake and Yaotsu.
Mitake
Town
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitake is a town located in Kani District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the town had an estimated population of 18,363 and a population density of 330 persons per km2, in 7,348 households. Mitake is situated 6 km west of Maesawa Dam.
Yaotsu
Yaotsu is a town in south-central Gifu. Most of Yaotsu's attractions are related to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by letting them flee to Japan.
Toki
Photo: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Toki is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of 31 January 2018, the city had an estimated population of 58,567 in 24,485 households, and a population density of 500 persons per km2.
Maesawa Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- Location: Mitake Chō, Kani district, Gifu, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Maesawa Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Maezawa-damu”
- Japanese: “まえざわだむ”
- Japanese: “前沢ダム”
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