The city of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, is making plans to lure tourists to its Akaiyachi wetland, a 70-hectare marsh designated as a national natural treasure.
The Aizuwakamatsu Municipal Government plans to build a promenade and parking lots on 611-meter Mount Okubo, which overlooks the wetland, in the coming years and perhaps a boardwalk through it after lifting a ban on entering the area.
The wetland, in the eastern Aizuwakamatsu town of Minato, is 525 meters above sea level and contains subarctic plants such as sphagnum moss, cranberries and cloudberries, all of which are common on Russia's Sakhalin Island. It was designated a natural treasure in 1928.