Mount Bukō Explained

Mount Bukō
Other Name:	武甲山
Elevation M:	1304
Map:	Japan
Label Position:	left
Location:	Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
Coordinates:	35.9517°N 139.0978°W

is a mountain in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. A major regional source of limestone, it has been actively quarried since the Edo period.^{[1] [2]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Martin . Alex K. T. . 2017-11-21 . Jobs battle environment on sacred but scarred Mount Buko . 2023-04-20 . The Japan Times . en-US.
2. Toyota . Hiroko . Ito . Daiki . Suzuki . Shuya . Hara . Ryohei . Wang . Junxiang . 2019-07-01 . Mapping vanished mountain shapes - The struggle between limestone mining and establishing a natural park at Mount Bukō - . Abstracts of the ICA . 1 . 1–2 . 10.5194/ica-abs-1-368-2019. free . 2019AbICA...1..368T .