Towada-Hachimantai National Park

Towada Visitor Center Guide

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a Japanese serow(Capricornis crispus)

Welcome to Lake Towada Visitor Center!

Anemone pseudoaltaica,Corydalis fukuharae

We begin our journey in spring and summer

Great spotted woodpeckers (akagera)

Great Spotted Woodpecker's Nesting Behavior

Japanese pygmy woodpecker (kogera)

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Nest/All Kinds of Eggs/Japanese Rat Snake Has its Eye on Eggs/Brood Parasitism by Lesser Cuckoo

Yellow Hornets

Cicada-hunting Yellow Hornets/ Yellow Hornet-hunting Honey Buzzards

Japanese squirrels

Squirrel Nesting Behavior

Japanese horse chestnuts (tochinoki)

Japanese Horse Chestnut and Western Honey Bees/Western Honey Bees and Asian Black Bears

Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia

A Jack-in-the-Pulpit to Die For/A Change from Female to Male for the Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia/Two Flower Types for the Deer-cabbage

Amanita muscaria

Learn more about the mushrooms

Japanese hare

Remains of Chewed Young Beech/The Winter Survival of Japanese Aucuba

Common Goldeney ehojiro-gamo (“white-cheek duck”)

Common Goldeneye/Mallard/Common Pochard/Common Merganser/Mandarin Duck/Tufted Duck/A Change of Plumage Before Proposing

Himemasu

Wainai Sadayuki and Himemasu

The Statue of Maiden

To enjoy the unique nature and culture that surrounds Lake Towada

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