The in Shiribeshi, on the west coast of Hokkaidō, Japan, is a mountainous

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on al ...

which projects some into the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...

. The Shakotan Peninsula forms part of the

Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park is a quasi-national park in the Shiribeshi Subprefecture of Hokkaido, Japan.List o ...

Geography

The peninsula has a rugged terrain with few level areas. The coastline of the peninsula suffers from extensive marine

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, which resulted in the numerous natural stone pillars which project from the sea.

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() forms the highest peak on the peninsula. The peninsula has numerous scenic capes and

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In ma ...

s, notably