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Outcrops of Rock-forming Minerals
A list of Japanese collecting localities of rock-forming minerals. Photograph of outcrops are shown to describe occurences of minerals.
Localities described below may be now closed to collecting by authorities or land owners.
A
- Abukuma Cave (Fukushima)
- Adachi (Miyagi)
- Akaze (Ishikawa)
- Arai (Saitama)
- Asahine (Saitama)
- Mount Asama (Nagano)
- Asa river (Tokyo)
B
C
D
- Daibosatsu Pass (Yamanashi)
- Daikokuten (Miyagi)
- Daioin (Ibaraki)
- Desert Cave Hotel (Australia)
- Dohira River (Gunma)
E
F
- Fukaura (Aomori)
- Furue (Mie)
- Mount Futago (Saitama)
- Futatsu-dake Peak of Mount Haruna (Gunma)
- Futo (Shizuoka)
G
H
- Hachijo Island (Tokyo)
- Hanazono Cave (Ibaraki)
- Mount Hanazono (Ibaraki)
- Hanazono Valley (Ibaraki)
- Harimichi Pass (Nara)
- Futatsu-dake Peak of Mount Haruna (Gunma)
- Heguri (Chiba)
- Hiedano (Kyoto)
- Higuchi (Saitama)
- Hijiro Valley (Hyogo)
- Hiraiso Seashore (Shizuoka)
- Hirayama (Kanagawa)
- Hitodo (Kanagawa)
- Mount Hokiya (Nagano)
- Hosoyama (Saitama)
- Hotokezaki (Nagano)
- Hyakuana (Saitama)
I
- Ichino River (Saitama)
- Ikenofukuro (Nagano)
- Iri-Karuizawa (Nagano)
- Iwadono Kannon (Saitama)
- Iwakake (Yamanashi)
- Iwo Jima (Tokyo)
- Iwo Jima Southern Beach (Tokyo)
- Izu-Oshima Island (Tokyo)
J
- Jigokunuma (Aomori)
- Jigoku Pond (Aomori)
- Noboribetsu-Jigokudani (Hokkaido)
- Noboribetsu-Jigoku Valley (Hokkaido)
- Jakotsu River (Kanagawa)
K
- Kaiya (Saitama)
- Kami-Nagatoro (Saitama)
- Kami-Sano (Yamanashi)
- Kami-Suwa (Ibaraki)
- Kanasaki (Saitama)
- Osaka, Kanasaki (Saitama)
- Kaneyama (Yamanashi)
- Kanuma (Tochigi)
- Karafuki (Gunma)
- Katsura Island (Shimane)
- Mount Kawate (Gunma)
- Kinomata River (Tochigi)
- Mount Kinsho (Saitama)
- Kita-Tomida (Ibaraki)
- Kiyomizu (Kagoshima)
- Kodo (Nagano)
- Kodomari (Aomori)
- Kodomari seashore (Aomori)
- Kosugi (Saitama)
- Koura-ga-hana (Shimane)
- Kumomi (Shizuoka)
- Kurotani (Gifu)
- Lake Kuttara (Hokkaido)
- Kyonosawa (Yamanashi)
L
M
- Manza-Karafuki (Gunma)
- Miyanohira (Tokyo)
- Miyazawa (Saitama)
- Momura (Tochigi)
- Mount Asama (Nagano)
- Mount Bandake (Nagasaki)
- Chausu-dake Peak of Mount Nasu (Tochigi)
- Mount Chiba (Shizuoka)
- Mount Futago (Saitama)
- Mount Hanazono (Ibaraki)
- Futatsu-dake Peak of Mount Haruna (Gunma)
- Mount Hokiya (Nagano)
- Mount Kawate (Gunma)
- Mount Kinsho (Saitama)
- Mount Manzo (Shizuoka)
- Mount Myoken (Ibaraki)
- Mount Nesugata (Shizuoka)
- Mount Nyukasa (Nagano)
- Mount Osa (Okayama)
- Mount Orihime (Tochigi)
- Mount Ryogai (Tochigi)
- Mount Tanakami (Shiga)
- Mugikusa Pass (Nagano)
- Mount Myoken (Ibaraki)
N
- Nagahama (Yamanashi)
- Nagakuki (Fukushima)
- Nagatani (Osaka)
- Nagusa (Tochigi)
- Nakadomari (Aomori)
- Naka-Kawabe (Gifu)
- Nakayashiki (Yamanashi)
- Nanasawa (Kanagawa)
- Narayama (Niigata)
- Chausu-dake Peak of Mount Nasu (Tochigi)
- Nasu-Roseki Mine (Tochigi)
- Mount Nesugata (Shizuoka)
- Niikoba (Saga)
- Nishi-no-iri (Saitama)
- Niu (Mie)
- Noboribetsu-Jigokudani (Hokkaido)
- Noboribetsu-Jigoku Valley (Hokkaido)
- Noboribetsu-Oyunuma Pond (Hokkaido)
- Mount Nyukasa (Nagano)
O
- Obora Path (Shizuoka)
- Ohiwa (Aomori)
- Oisawa (Kanagawa)
- Oiwa (Aomori)
- Onara (Gunma)
- Onigasaki (Shizuoka)
- Onna-Saka (Yamanashi)
- Orihara (Saitama)
- Mount Orihime (Tochigi)
- Mount Osa (Okayama)
- Osaka (Saitama)
- Oshuku (Yamanashi)
- Oyahana bridge (Saitama)
- Noboribetsu-Oyunuma Pond (Hokkaido)
P
Q
R
S
- Saigyo Valley (Mie)
- Sessho creek (Gunma)
- Shimo-jinya (Aichi)
- Shiraki (Mie)
- Shirataki Creek (Tochigi)
- Shiroishi Pass (Yamanashi)
- Shobusawa (Shizuoka)
- Sogaura (Shizuoka)
- Sokokura Hot Spring
- Sukumo river (Kanagawa)
- Su river (Yamagata)
T
- Tabi (Shizuoka)
- Taiji (Wakayama)
- Taiji seashore (Wakayama)
- Taira-machi (Ibaraki)
- Takemori (Yamanashi)
- Tano (Yamanashi)
- Mount Tanakami (Shiga)
- Tatarasawa (Gunma)
- Tateya (Tokyo)
- Toge (Shizuoka)
- Toi-Shinden (Shizuoka)
- Tonosawa (Kanagawa)
- Tsukiyoshi (Gunma)
U
V
W
Y
- Yadoriki (Kanagawa)
- Yaga (Kanagawa)
- Yamano-o (Ibaraki)
- Yanda (Shizuoka)
- Yatsuka (Fukushima)
- Yoka (Chiba)
- Yokokawa river (Nagano)
- Yoshimi (Saitama)
- Yoshimi-Hyakuana (Saitama)
- Yugama (Gunma)
- Yunishi River (Tochigi)