Uemachi Plateau

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Uemachi Plateau is a plateau in Osaka city, Japan, that extends from the Osaka Castle and Tenmabashi area to Tenn ji in the south. From the results of post-war university studies into geological stratum and faults and the examination of old maps, it is assumed that by around the fifth century a sand bank had already formed, eventually becoming the Uemachi Plateau. It is believed that in the Jomon period the Uemachi Plateau was a sandbank that separated the Inland Sea on the west and Kawachi Bay on the east. From the Yayoi period to current times large amounts of sediment was deposited from the Yodo and Yamato rivers. Kawachi Bay turned into Kawachi Lake, then into swampland, and finally into an alluvial plain. Similarly, due to the movement of rivers, the west side of the plateau became a plain which is now the center part of Osaka city.... Mehr