Archive:Nakaumi
Nakaumi is a brackish lake located between the Tottori Prefecture and the Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The lake is enclosed by the Shimane peninsula to the north and Yumigahama peninsula to the east. Nakaumi connects Lake Shinji (Shinji-ko) and the Sea of Japan. It is the fifth largest lake in surface area in Japan.
There are two large islands in the lake, Daikon-island (Daikonjima, lit. "radish island") and Eshima Island (Eshima, "river island"). There are bridges and roads that connect the east and west shores of the lake through the two islands.
Nakaumi is a brackish lake because it is connected to the Sea of Japan by a short channel, the Sakai Channel.
Nakaumi literally means "middle sea". Even though Nakaumi is a lake, it was likely named a sea because of its saline water and proximity to the actual sea. In Japanese, the lake is usually referred to simply as Nakaumi, not as Nakaumi-ko (Lake Nakaumi).