Kitan Strait

Japanese: 紀淡海峡 - きたんかいきょう

A strait about 10 kilometers wide between Cape Takurazaki in northwestern Wakayama Prefecture and Oishi-no-hana on Awaji Island. It is so named because it faces the provinces of Kii and Awaji. With Tomogashima in the middle, it is also called the Tomogashima Strait. It connects the Kii Strait with Osaka Bay. Kada Port in Wakayama City faces Yura Port on Awaji Island, and it was a key route on the Nankaido. The Tomogashima Islands include Jinoshima and Okinoshima, and from the east it is divided into Kada Seto, Naka Seto, and Yura Seto. Large ships pass through Yura Seto between Awaji Island and Okinoshima. From the mid-Meiji period until World War II, it was a fortified area, but is now part of Seto Inland Sea National Park.

[Yoichi Koike]

Kitan Strait
View from the Awaji Island side. The southern tip of Narugashima Island, with its sandbar stretching out to the left, and the Tomogashima Islands (Okinoshima Island and Jinoshima Island) in the background. Setonaikai National Park. Sumoto City, Hyogo Prefecture/Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture ©Ministry of the Environment ">

Kitan Strait

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Japanese:

和歌山県北西部の田倉崎(たくらざき)と淡路島生石鼻(おいしのはな)の間、幅約10キロメートルの海峡。紀伊国と淡路国が対するのでその名がある。中央に友ヶ島があり、友ヶ島水道ともいう。紀伊水道と大阪湾をつなぐ。和歌山市加太(かだ)港と淡路島由良(ゆら)港が相対し、南海道の要路であった。友ヶ島は地ノ島と沖ノ島などからなり、東から加太瀬戸、中瀬戸、由良瀬戸に分かれる。大型船は淡路島と沖ノ島間の由良瀬戸を通る。明治中期から第二次世界大戦時までは要塞(ようさい)地帯であったが、いまは瀬戸内海国立公園に含まれる。

［小池洋一］

紀淡海峡

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