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Two-tone pond

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Photo taken July 8, 2013, shows Mortar Pond, located at a height of around 1,600 meters, in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Local residents attribute the two-tone color of the pond to snow and sunlight.

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Two-tone pond

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Photo taken July 8, 2013, shows Mortar Pond, located at a height of around 1,600 meters, in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Local residents attribute the two-tone color of the pond to snow and sunlight.

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Mt. Daisetsu in Hokkaido opens to public for this season

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - About 150 hikers move through the Mt. Daisetsu range in the Daisetsuzan National Park in Hokkaido on the season's opening day on June 25.

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Alpine flowers in Hokkaido

Alpine flowers known as "chinguruma" in Japanese and technically named Geum pentapetalum are in full bloom on July 21, 2022, on a hillside of Mt. Asahi, part of the Daisetsuzan volcanic group of peaks on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido.

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Alpine flowers in Hokkaido

Alpine flowers known as "chinguruma" in Japanese and technically named Geum pentapetalum are in full bloom on July 21, 2022, on a hillside of Mt. Asahi, part of the Daisetsuzan volcanic group of peaks on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido.

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Alpine flowers in Hokkaido

Alpine flowers known as "chinguruma" in Japanese and technically named Geum pentapetalum are in full bloom on July 21, 2022, on a hillside of Mt. Asahi, part of the Daisetsuzan volcanic group of peaks on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido.

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Daisetsuzan mountain ranges take on autumn colors, a panoramic view of colored leaves against the blue sky

Daisetsuzan mountain ranges in Hokkaido are now at the height of the fall foliage. Under the blue sky on Sept. 16, rowan trees and Gold birches colored mountain surfaces in beautiful autumnal scenery at Mt. Kurodake (1,984 meters). According to the operator of the Kurodake Ropeway, "it is particularly bright in these past several years."Beautiful contrasts of green, red and yellow colors spread on the upper part of Mt. Kurodake, from the seventh station up to the summit.Date: September 16, 2021Place: Hokkaido, JAPAN

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Award-winning alpinist Taniguchi dies after going missing on snowy mountain

Photo taken in September 2001 shows Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi, the first woman to win the prestigious Piolet d'Or (Golden Ice Axe) mountaineering award in 2009. Taniguchi was confirmed dead in a hospital on Dec. 22, 2015, after going missing a day earlier near a peak of the snowy Daisetsuzan volcanic group in Hokkaido, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Search continues for Japanese alpinist Taniguchi

Two climbing friends of award-winning Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi look up towards a peak of the Daisetsuzan volcanic group in the town of Kamikawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Dec. 22, 2015, as police were searching near the peak for Taniguchi, who went missing a day earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late-blooming cherry blossoms in season in northern Japan

Chishima cherry trees are in bloom in the Asahidake hot spring area of the Daisetsuzan mountain range in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on June 23, 2015. Chishima cherry trees bloom in mountainous areas over 1,100 meters and are the latest blooming cherry tree variety in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Symposium on Hokkaido Garden Show 2015 in Sapporo

A symposium on discussing ways to rev up local economies is held in Sapporo on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 26, 2015, ahead of the start of the Hokkaido Garden Show 2015 around the Daisetsuzan National Park in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wild bear watching attracts hikers to Hokkaido national park

Photo taken in August 2017 in Kamikawa, Hokkaido, shows an adult brown bear and cub grazing on the hills of a national park in Japan's northernmost main island. Hiking through the hills of the Daisetsuzan National Park has become popular for the opportunity it presents to see wild brown bears in their natural environment. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE)(Photo courtesy of Daisetsuzan National Park Council's brown bear information center)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Daisetsu in Hokkaido opens to public for this season

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - About 150 hikers move through the Mt. Daisetsu range in the Daisetsuzan National Park in Hokkaido on the season's opening day on June 25. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Asahidake covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2020, shows Mt. Asahidake in the Daisetsuzan mountain range on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido capped with the season's first snow.

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Mt. Asahidake covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2020, shows Mt. Asahidake in the Daisetsuzan mountain range on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido capped with the season's first snow.

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Cherry trees in Hokkaido

Chishima cherry trees are in bloom on Mt. Kuro in the Daisetsuzan mountain range on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 6, 2019. Chishima cherry trees are known to be the latest-blooming cherry tree variety in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cherry trees in Hokkaido

Chishima cherry trees are in bloom on Mt. Kuro in the Daisetsuzan mountain range on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 6, 2019. Chishima cherry trees are known to be the latest-blooming cherry tree variety in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo