Karst cave.
| Location: | Iwaizumi-tyo, Iwate. 600km north of Tokyo. |
| Open: | closed [2006] |
| Fee: | closed [2006] |
| Classification: |
Karst cave.
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| Light: | none |
| Dimension: | L=24,000m. |
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| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:26:03 $ |
| 1997 | a total length of 12.7 kilometers published. | |
| 20-MAY-2006 | new survey with 24km presented on the Meeting of the Japan Association of Groundwater Hydrology at the University of Tokyo. |
Akkado (Akka Cave) is Japan's longest cave.
It is located in Iwaizumi, a town with 12,000 inhabitants in Iwate Prefecture,
northeastern Japan.
The town is also known for
Ryusen-do,
one of Japan's most famous limestone caves, which is a show cave.
Akka cave is not open to the public, it is listed because it is the longest cave
of Japan.
The cave is at the moment explored by the Association for Cave Exploration, a caving club based in Chiba near Tokyo. It has been already the longest cave of Japan before, with a total length of 12.7 kilometers published in 1997. During the last ten years the caving club explored and surveyed a lot of new passages. Now the cave totals 24 kilometers.
Akkado is a maze-like cave, which explains the big length. A part of the maze is water filled, which forms an underground lake. The lake extends two kilometers from north to south and 500 meters from east to west. The water is up to 140 meters deep.
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