{{Short description|Strait between Awaji and Honshu islands, Japan}} [[File:Kitan-Strait 1.png|thumb|right|300px|The Kitan Strait, separating Awaji Island from Honshū]]

The {{nihongo|'''Kitan Strait'''|紀淡海峡|Kitan kaikyō}} or {{Nihongo|'''Tomogashima Channel'''|友ヶ島水道|Tomogashima suidō}} separates Awaji Island from Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan and connects the Osaka Bay in the north to the Kii Channel in the south. The total width is 11&nbsp;km, but the islands of Tomogashima reduce the distance to be spanned by a proposed bridge.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tGWLabecNwC&dq=kitan+strait&pg=PA66 |title=Bridge Aeroelasticity: Sensitivity Analysis and Optimum Design |author=Jurado, J.|publisher=WIT Press |year=2011 |page=66|isbn=9781845640569 |display-authors=etal}}</ref><!--Interesting claim re Awaji - how reliable is this source?--><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/NOE9058096043.ch173 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121202233640/http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/NOE9058096043.ch173 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-02 |title=Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials |chapter=Chapter 173: Compression characteristics of stiff clay to support a bridge foundation evaluated by field and laboratory tests |pages=1363ff |editor=Di Benedetto, Hervé |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2003 |doi=10.1201/NOE9058096043 |isbn=978-90-5809-604-3 }}</ref> The strait forms part of the Setonaikai National Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.env.go.jp/park/setonaikai/intro/files/area_1.pdf |title=Setonaikai National Park - Map 1 |publisher=Ministry of the Environment |accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref>

==See also== * Akashi Strait

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Category:Straits of Japan Category:Landforms of Wakayama Prefecture