TOKYO -- Japanese local communities are promoting geoparks to revitalize their regions by highlighting their unique geology and combining this with sustainable tourism and education. Serving to protect and celebrate natural wonders like volcanoes, rocks and geological strata, geoparks are popping up across the country.
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Japan's geoparks: natural wonders drive tourism, regional growth
Local governments and private sector team up to lure visitors
At the Fossa Magna Park in Itoigawa, in Niigata prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, visitors can observe geological strata. (Photo by Taro Fujii)
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