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A wild cherry wood on Mount Omine in Tainai, named a national natural monument in 1934.
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A cherry tree forest on Mt. Omine in the Kushigata Mountains in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture. It lies in the Kushigata Mountains, regarded as the smallest mountain range in Japan, and is known as a land of mountain cherries. In Showa 9 it was designated a national natural monument as the Tochidaira Cherry Forest.
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Nationally designated natural monument - Designated name: Tochidaira Cherry Grove - Date of designation: January 22, 1934 (Showa 9) - Owner/administrator: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
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