Lake Onogawa


Lake Onogawa, is a lake located in Kitashiobara, Fukushima, Japan. It is one of the three larger lakes in the Bandai Highland, the other two being Lake Hibara in its west and Lake Akimoto in its east.
Lake Onogawa is 3.5 km long east–west, and its area 1.72 square km. Dotted with several small islands, it is part of Bandai-Asahi National Park.
Lake Onogawa was created by the 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai, which dammed the Ono and Nagase Rivers. The Ono comes down, via the Onogawa Fudo Falls. from Mount Azuma in the north. Its water was selected in 1985 as one of the 100 Best Waters by the Japanese Environmental Agency.
Lake Onogawa is a popular tourist destination for all seasons, with camping & canoeing in summer, and Japanese smelt fishing on the ice & snow field trekking in winter.

Access

Lake Onogawa can be reached from Inawashiro Station of JR East's Ban'etsu West Line or from the Inawashiro-Bandaikogen Interchange of Ban-etsu Expressway.