Mount Bukō

Mount Bukō (武甲山, Bukō-san) is a mountain in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. A major regional source of limestone, it has been actively quarried since the Edo period.^[1][2]

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  Relief Map
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  Downtown Chichibu
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  With Hitsujiyama Park [ja]

Mount Bukō
武甲山
Mount Bukō, with terracing from limestone mining clearly visible
Highest point
Elevation	1,304 m (4,278 ft)
Coordinates	35°57′06″N 139°05′52″E
Geography
Mount Bukō Chichibu, Saitama, Japan

References

1. Martin, Alex K. T. (21 November 2017). "Jobs battle environment on sacred but scarred Mount Buko". The Japan Times. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
2. Toyota, Hiroko; Ito, Daiki; Suzuki, Shuya; Hara, Ryohei; Wang, Junxiang (1 July 2019). "Mapping vanished mountain shapes - The struggle between limestone mining and establishing a natural park at Mount Bukō -". Abstracts of the ICA. 1: 1–2. Bibcode:2019AbICA...1..368T. doi:10.5194/ica-abs-1-368-2019.