Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Kii Peninsula, Japan.
The Kii Peninsula is the largest peninsula on the island of Honshu in Japan and is located within the Kansai region. It is named after the ancient Kii Province. The peninsula has long been a sacred place in Buddhism, Shinto, and Shugendo, and many people would visit from all over Japan as part of the Kumano religious practices. The natural landscape of the peninsula is dense temperate rainforest, but the vast majority of forests are monoculture pine plantations which were planted to rebuild after the destruction of World War II. The region is well known for its citrus varieties and orchards. Much of the coast consists of networks of small rias into which flow very steep and rapid streams characterised by numerous high waterfalls. Forestry and fishing were the traditional economic mainstays of the region and remain important even today despite a declining population and labour force.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
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