Daisen City

A garden lantern's cap spans about 4 m.

Ikeda Garden, Yukimi lantern

01 ／ National Treasure

The mirror dug from a weiris engraved with a Kannon of 40 arms.

The mirror engraved with the Thousand-Armed Kannon, owned by Suijin Shrine, is a bronze mirror dug up in 1677 from a weir while land was being cleared, and is thought to date from around the 11th century. It bears a Kannon with 11 faces and 40 arms, plus attendants; Kannon are often shown with 42 arms.

Dug up from a weir, 1677
Kannon with 11 faces and 40 arms
National Treasure (craft)

02 ／ Bonden

Even after the bridge came,the bonden cross the Omono River by boat.

The offering of bonden, tall decorated festival standards, at Izusan Shrine has gone on for over 180 years. With no bridge, the only way across was by boat, and even after Ōmagari Bridge opened in 1977 and the ferry ended the next year, the bonden still cross the Omono River by boat. Among bonden offerings, the city says, this is the only one that crosses a river.

Over 180 years
Ōmagari Bridge opened 1977
City-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ Important Cultural Property

In a dismantling and repair, the eavesyielded an inscription by a carpenter, Jinbei.

古四王神社本殿.jpg — Photo by Taxidriver4126 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The main hall of Koshio Shrine is said to have been built in the first year of Genki (1570). In the 1930 dismantling and repair by the Ministry of Education, an ink inscription reading Furukawa Village carpenter Jinbei was found in the eave brackets, showing it to be the work of a carpenter from Hida in Gifu.

Dismantled and repaired, 1930
Single-bay irimoya-zukuri
Said to be built in 1570

Living here

Tokyo in 3 h 5 min on the Komachi.

about 80,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

From Tokyo Station to Ōmagari Station, the city says the Akita Shinkansen Komachi takes as little as 3 hours 5 minutes with no change of train. Ōmagari Station is also a station on the Ōu Main Line and the Tazawako Line.

People living here: 77,657people
Area: 866.79km²
Households: 28,370households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,181yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 71 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —24 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Daisen City in Japan39.453°N 140.475°E

to TokyoAkita Shinkansen185min

Travel times follow 市公式のシティプロモーションのページ（https://www.city.daisen.lg.jp/genre/promotion）に「東京駅と大曲駅の間は最速3時間5分でアクセスでき」とある。駅探の時刻表（東京→大曲のこまち）で、2026-10-08（木）・10-10（土）・10-12（月・祝）のどの日にも、こまち41号（東京20:16発→大曲23:21着）の3時間05分が最速として載る (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Daisen City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

39.8km

Akita Prefecture: 秋田市, 仙北市, 美郷町, 横手市, 由利本荘市
Iwate Prefecture: 西和賀町

Daisen City isthis kind of town.

01At the nationally designated Former Ikeda Garden in Takanashi, a yukimi ("snow-viewing") lantern with a cap about 4 m across stands on the west bank of the pond
02Suijin Shrine keeps a National Treasure mirror engraved with the Thousand-Armed Kannon, and bonden are carried by boat across the Omono River to Izusan Shrine
03The main hall of Koshio Shrine is an Important Cultural Property, and the city also has the Hotta no Saku site, a national historic site; the Kariwano tug-of-war and the Ōmagari fireworks have also taken place here

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Daisen City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗