Overview
The Tone River is a river in the Kantō region of Japan. It is 322 kilometers in length and has a drainage area of 16,840 square kilometers. It is nicknamed Bandō Tarō; Bandō is an obsolete alias of the Kantō region.
Description
Tone River, Japanese Tone-gawa, major river of the Kantō Plain, Honshu, Japan. It rises in the volcanic area of northwestern Kantō chihō (region), about 35 miles (56 km) north of Maebashi in Gumma ken (prefecture). The river flows for 200 miles (320 km) south and southeast through the center of the Kantō Plain to enter the Pacific Ocean at Chōshi in Chiba ken, near Cape Inubō. It was once known as Bandō Tarō, the principal river of Japan in the Bandō (now Kantō) region.