Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Gunma Prefecture
Detourmap lists 36 places in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Japan Air Lines Flight 123. 26 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 36
- Oldest
- Mount Nikkō-Shirane 20000 BC
- Little known
- 26 of 36
- Share of Japan
- 3%
Gunma Prefecture 36
All 36, best known first.
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1.Japan Air Lines Flight 123
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
1985 aviation accident in Japan
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25.Ōta Tenjin-yama Kofun
Archaeological · 5th century · Hidden gem
Kofun period burial mound in Japan
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26.Watanuki Kannon-yama Kofun
Archaeological · 6th century · Hidden gem
Burial mound in Takasaki, Japan
Elsewhere in Japan
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Gunma Prefecture?
Japan Air Lines Flight 123, 20th century. 1985 aviation accident in Japan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Gunma Prefecture?
36: 23 nature & landscapes and 13 archaeological & historic sites. 26 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Gunma Prefecture?
Mount Nikkō-Shirane, dated to 20000 BC. 6 of the 36 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Gunma Prefecture here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Gunma Prefecture if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Gunma Prefecture is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.