Katagami City

Festival roles pass on over three years.

Tonin rites, Toko Yasaka Shrine

Photo by MWE (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Oil field

Oil struck in 1913;718 wells were dug.

At the Toyokawa oil field, exploration began in 1882 and oil was struck in October 1913. At its peak it produced 86,800 kiloliters a year, and 718 wells were dug, making it one of the notable oil fields of Akita, a prefecture once called the kingdom of oil. It was recognized as a modern industrial heritage site in 2007, and the site of its cable-tool No. 1 well is a city historic site.

Oil struck, October 1913
718 wells
No. 1 well site: city historic site

02 ／ Storehouse

One go of rice a day, set aside,became a store against crop failure.

Rikinosuke Ishikawa followed an old saying: one go of rice a day can save a person's life. Each day he set aside one go from his own food in a separate tub and stored it as steamed rice. After a thousand days at his mountain retreat it came to one koku, and he had his household do the same; what they stored is today's Ishikawa family famine-relief storehouse. The site is a prefectural historic site.

One go set aside each day
One koku after a thousand days
Prefectural historic site, 1964

03 ／ Kannon hall

A hall with a 1734 ridge tabletwas once the shrine's main sanctuary.

The Kannon hall of Shinmei Shrine was once the shrine's main sanctuary. A ridge tablet records its construction in 1734, and when a new main sanctuary was built in 1930 the hall was moved to the northeast part of the grounds. According to the city, a mummified white fox clasping a deer's leg was found during repairs and is kept inside the hall. Important Cultural Property (designated 1952).

Ridge tablet of 1734
Moved in 1930 to the northeast of the grounds
National Important Cultural Property, 1952

Living here

Within 30 minutes of Akita Station.

about 30,000 people

The city has six stations: Detohama, Tennō, Kami-Futada and Futada on the Oga Line, and Ōkubo and Ugo-Iizuka on the Ōu Main Line. The city's tourist guide says every station in the city is within 30 minutes of Akita Station, and the city's access page gives about 25 minutes from Akita Station to Detohama Station on the Oga Line.

People living here: 31,720people
Area: 97.72km²
Households: 12,287households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,450yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 19 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 3 municipalities.

Katagami City in Japan39.857°N 140.013°E

Territory of Katagami 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

12.9km

秋田市, 井川町, 男鹿市

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

Katagami City isthis kind of town.

01The tonin rites of Toko Yasaka Shrine are a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; a tonin serves for three calendar years, first as shin-tonin, then as ko-tonin
02The Toyokawa oil field struck oil in October 1913, and 718 wells were dug; the site of its No. 1 well is a city-designated historic site
03Rikinosuke Ishikawa set aside a go of rice every day against crop failure, and Shinmei Shrine in Iizuka has a Kannon hall that is a National Important Cultural Property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Katagami City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗