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Uplands at about 900 metres in Kamikawa, known for its pampas grass.
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Tonomine Kogen is a highland in Kamikawa, Kanzaki District, Hyogo Prefecture. It is known as a treasure trove of wild mountain flowers and a large Japanese pampas grass (susuki) colony. A grassland of about 90 hectares at an elevation of 800–900 m belonging to Seppiko-Busan Prefectural Natural Park, with continuous gently undulating relief of a kind of periglacial landform called fossil periglacial slopes; in autumn the whole grassland becomes a silver carpet and it is one of Japan's leading susuki colonies. In the wetland (Tonomine Kogen Wetland), many alpine plants can also be seen.
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