05349 ／ はっぽうちょう
Akita Prefecture 山本郡Men carry a mikoshi into a waterfall.
Takiabi, Shirataki-jinja Shrine01 ／ Mine site
Hassei Mine once stood where Happō Town Central Park, opened in 2008, now lies. At one end of its lawn stands a 4.3 m monument, a one-tenth-scale replica of the smelting furnace's great chimney. The black sand beach nearby is, in the town's words, slag that was once washed away from the mine.
02 ／ Tateiwa
According to the Happō Shirakami Geopark, the Koirikawa district has a huge rock called Tateiwa, and a legend of tragic love is handed down about a young flute player and a local girl who loved him. Right above the district's rows of houses spans the Koirikawa railway bridge of the JR Gonō Line, known as a photography spot.
03 ／ Columnar joints
The rock mass next to the north-west of Tsubaki fishing port is about 94 m long and about 16 m wide. Made of andesite, it keeps the look of a lava flow. The prefecture writes that no other rock in the prefecture shows the three-dimensional structure of columnar joints in this way, and designated it a prefectural natural monument in 2015.
Living here
The town names Higashi-Hachimori Station on the JR Gonō Line, a ten-minute walk from the town hall, as its nearest station. There is no taxi company in the town; from a main station the town points visitors to its on-demand taxi, or to taxi firms in neighbouring municipalities, to be arranged beforehand.
−10% since 2015
8,220 → 6,577
43.3km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
7.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
24.6km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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