JAPAN

JAPAN / 日本.

Zaō Quasi-National Park (蔵王国定公園).
Crater of Mount Zaō.
Stamp issued on 15.03.1966.
Face value: 10 Japanese yen.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 24,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 923.
- Sakura No. P223.
- Scott No. 875.
- StampWorld No. 913.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1036.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 831.

The Zaō Kokutei Kōen (蔵 王国 定 公園) is a Quasi-National Park that extends in the Ōu Mountains between Miyagi and Yamagata Prefectures. It was established in 1963, and its main feature is Mount Zaō, which is in fact a complex group of volcanoes, some of which are still active, in the north of the island of Honshu. Its maximum height is 1,841 m (6,040 ft). The crater of the central mount, named Okama (御 釜), formed by an eruption in 1720, contains a lake 360 m (1,200 ft) in diameter and 60 m (200 ft) deep.