| Suigō Prefectural Natural Park | |
| Alt Name: | 水郷県立自然公園 |
| Map: | Japan |
| Relief: | 1 |
| Map Alt: | Location in Japan |
| Map Size: | 270px |
| Location: | Mie Prefecture, Japan |
| Coordinates: | 35.1306°N 136.6683°W |
| Established: | 1 October 1953 |
is a Prefectural Natural Park in northeast Mie Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1953, the park comprises one unified area that spans the borders of the municipalities of Kuwana and Kisosaki.[1] [2] In Heisei 16 (2004), nearly six-and-a-half million visitors entered the park, making it second in the prefecture, amongst its Natural Parks, to Ise-Shima National Park, and exceeding the number of visitors to Yoshino-Kumano National Park, Suzuka Quasi-National Park, and Murō-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park.[3] As of 31 March 2020, of its total designated area of, state land totalled, other public land, and private land .[4]
The park consists of an Ordinary Zone to the East, in the Kiso-sansen alluvial delta, where the Ibi, Nagara, and Kiso Rivers flow down into Ise Bay, and a Special Zone (subdivided into Class 1, 2, and 3 Special Zones) to the northwest, around at the southern end of the Yōrō Mountains.[1] [2] To the northeast, the park adjoins in Gifu Prefecture, a flood-control initiative following the 1754 Hōreki River incident, and now protected within Senbon Matsubara Prefectural Natural Park.[1] [2] [5] Within the park, features of natural and cultural interest include Tado Taisha, the National Natural Monument Tado's Callery Pear Plant Communities,[6] Japanese chinquapins, Gifu butterflies,,, and the remains of the landing of the ferry crossing, between Kuwana-juku and Miya-juku, celebrated by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, and designated a Prefectural Historic Site.[1] [7] [8]