Kazuno City

A brewer's house with a covered walkway.

Komise, former Sekizen sake shop

Photo by 掬茶 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Hanawa Neputa

Lanterns shaped like shogi piecesare set alight on a bridge over the Yoneshiro River.

A Tanabata event held on 7 and 8 August: ten neighbourhoods bring out ten large lanterns, each over 5 metres tall, and ten big drums. Each lantern bears the word Osho, the king in shogi, on its front and a warrior picture on its back. On the second night, all are set alight at once on a bridge over the Yoneshiro River in the Nemuri-nagashi.

10 large lanterns, 10 big drums
7 and 8 August
Designated by the city, 2012

02 ／ Dainichido Bugaku

Azukizawa performs Gongenmai, Osato Komamai,Nagamine Uhenmai, Taninai Godaisonmai.

Dainichido Bugaku, dedicated on 2 January at Ohirumemuchi Shrine, has been handed down by four districts: Osato, Azukizawa, Taninai and Nagamine. Azukizawa takes Gongenmai and Dengakumai, Osato Komamai, Torimai and Koshomai, Nagamine Uhenmai, and Taninai Godaisonmai.

Shared among four districts
Dedicated on 2 January
Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1976

03 ／ Oyu Stone Circles

The Manza and Nonakado stone circlesproved by excavation to be groups of kumiishi tombs.

Built about 4,000 years ago, in the early to middle part of the Late Jomon period, the circles are 54.25 metres (Manza) and 44.00 metres (Nonakado) across at their widest. Kumiishi, clusters of several to a dozen or so stones, form a double ring, with timber-post buildings and storage pits spreading around them in concentric circles.

About 4,000 years ago
Manza, widest diameter 54.25 metres
Special Historic Site

Living here

A city bordering Aomori and Iwate, with eight Hanawa Line stations.

about 30,000 people

The city lies in the far north-east of Akita, bordering Aomori Prefecture to the north and Iwate Prefecture to the east. It stretches 20.1 km east to west and 52.3 km north to south, and National Route 282, the Tōhoku Expressway and the JR Hanawa Line run along the Yoneshiro River. There are eight Hanawa Line stations in the city. In 1972 the towns of Hanawa, Towada and Osarizawa and the village of Hachimantai merged to form the present city.

People living here: 29,088people
Area: 707.52km²
Households: 10,978households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,064yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Kazuno City in Japan40.216°N 140.788°E

Territory of Kazuno 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

52.4km

Akita Prefecture: 小坂町, 大館市, 仙北市, 北秋田市
Iwate Prefecture: 八幡平市
Aomori Prefecture: 田子町, 十和田市, 三戸町, 新郷村

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

Kazuno City isthis kind of town.

01The former Sekizen sake shop in Hanawa, a brewer's townhouse of 1905 and a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property, has a komise at its front: eaves extended long, with a walkway beneath them
02Hanawa Neputa, whose shogi-piece lanterns are burned on a bridge over the Yoneshiro River on 7 and 8 August, and Dainichido Bugaku, whose dances four districts share and dedicate on 2 January, are both held here
03The Oyu Stone Circles of the Late Jomon period are a national Special Historic Site, where excavation found the circles to be groups of kumiishi tombs, and are inscribed as a World Heritage Site

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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