Hachirogata Town

Said to take its form in post-town days.

Hitoichi Bon Odori

Photo by 掬茶 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Gannin Odori

A skit from Act 5 of Chūshingura comes mid-dance,then the dancers go from house to house.

Designated a prefectural intangible folk cultural property in 1973. It is said to have begun as the door-to-door performance of ganinbōzu, low-ranking monks, who performed in many places in the Edo period, and to have reached the town about 300 years ago. A skit from Act 5 of Chūshingura is staged mid-dance, and after the offering at Hitoichi Shrine on 5 May, the dancers go from house to house.

Prefectural folk property, 1973
Reached the town about 300 years ago
5 May, offering at Hitoichi Shrine

02 ／ Ura Castle ruins

A castle site recorded with enclosures and cut ditchesis said to have used a waterfall for drinking water.

Ura Castle was a mountain castle set at the summit in the late Muromachi period, using the lie of the land. The prefectural archaeological map records enclosures, belt enclosures and cut ditches, and a non-profit group maintains the site and recreates a medieval mountain castle. Murakumo Falls is said to have supplied its drinking water at the time.

Late Muromachi-period castle
Enclosures, belt enclosures, cut ditches
Maintained by a non-profit group

03 ／ Mikurahana

Literati have long visited this spot,and a Shiki haiku monument stands in it.

Mikurahana Park is a scenic spot where the old Lake Hachirōgata could be seen, with a vast panorama of sky, horizon and lake. Many literati, including Kōda Rohan and Masaoka Shiki, have long visited, and the park holds a monument to Shiki's haiku of a single crane over the clear inlet under a high autumn sky.

Shiki haiku monument
Literati including Kōda Rohan and Masaoka Shiki
Panorama over Lake Hachirōgata

Living here

34 minutes from Akita Station on the Ōu Main Line; a library by the station.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The town's gateway is Hachirōgata Station on the JR Ōu Main Line. According to the town, it takes 3 hours 37 minutes from Tokyo Station to Akita Station on the Akita Shinkansen Komachi, then 34 minutes from Akita Station on the Ōu Main Line. The station-front complex Ekimae Kōryūkan Hachipal houses a library and a child-care support centre. The town describes itself as an area with little snow within the prefecture.

People living here: 5,583people
Area: 17km²
Households: 2,144households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Hachirogata Town in Japan39.949°N 140.073°E

Territory of Hachirogata Town

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

6.0km

五城目町, 三種町, 大潟村, 井川町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Hachirogata Town isthis kind of town.

01The Hitoichi Bon Odori, a prefectural intangible folk cultural property, is said to have taken its present form around the time the post town and its relay-horse office were opened; the fast Dendenzuku and Kitasaka dances survive alongside a graceful one brought from the capital
02Gannin Odori, also of Hitoichi and also a prefectural intangible folk cultural property, stages a skit from Act 5 of Chūshingura, makes its offering at Hitoichi Shrine on 5 May and then goes from house to house
03The town has Ura Castle ruins, a late Muromachi-period mountain castle, Murakumo Falls, and Mikurahana Park, where a haiku monument to Shiki stands, on the edge of Lake Hachirōgata

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hachirogata Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗