It's a good day trip hike up Mt Takao. Get the Mt Takao discount ticket (round trip train ticket + round trip/one-way cable car/chair lift ticket) and on your way. Mt Fuji is visible when you reach the summit. I took the one-way cable car up and came down by trail 4 which would encounter a suspension bridge. Overall a...
An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms.
A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge. The soils usually consist of levees, silts, and sands deposited during floods. Levees are the heaviest materials (usually pebble-size) and they fall in first; silts and sands are finer materials. Flood plains are made by a meander eroding sideways as it travels downstream.