Nikaho City

A stone seawall has a drain sluice.

Yuri Coast Namiyoke Stone Wall

Photo by 掬茶 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Beech

A beech forest logged over snow again and againhas many deformed trees called agariko.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs notes that the beech forest around Shishigahana Wetland was repeatedly logged over snow for charcoal, and that many agariko can be seen there, trees sending up many shoots from a height of 2 to 3 m. The tourist association presents Agariko-daio, over 300 years old with a trunk 7.62 m around, as the forest's symbol.

Logged over snow for charcoal
Many shoots from a height of 2 to 3 m
Wetland a national natural monument, 2001

02 ／ Dance

On an earthen stage in the shrine grounds,the Chokurairo dance is performed.

Kotaki's Chokurairo dance is performed at the festival of Kinpo Shrine, on an earthen stage in its grounds. The stage is about 3.6 m square and about 60 cm high, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that the dance was once an ennen, a ritual performance, in which Chokai Shugen mountain ascetics took part. Since 2015 it has been held on the last Saturday of May.

Earthen stage, about 3.6 m square and 60 cm high
Held on the last Saturday of May
Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 2004

03 ／ Waterway

Mount Chokai's snowmeltis warmed in wide, shallow channels.

The Kamigo warm-water channels in Kisakata are irrigation channels that cope with the cold of Mount Chokai's snowmelt. The Japan Society of Civil Engineers cites their wide channels, shallow water and series of drops as the reason for its 2003 Selected Civil Engineering Heritage listing. The prefecture designated them a Tangible Cultural Property (structure) in 2009.

Wide channels, shallow water, a series of drops
Selected Civil Engineering Heritage, fiscal 2003
Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property (structure), 2009

Living here

The Uetsu Main Line runs north to south through the city.

about 20,000 people

The JR Uetsu Main Line runs north to south through the city, with Kisakata, Konoura and Nikaho stations at the centers of their districts. The city's migration portal says they are used for commuting to school and daily life. To reach Tokyo, change to a Shinkansen at Akita or Niigata.

People living here: 23,435people
Area: 241.13km²
Households: 8,635households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,460yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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 2 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Nikaho City in Japan39.203°N 139.908°E

Territory of Nikaho 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

23.0km

Akita Prefecture: 由利本荘市
Yamagata Prefecture: 遊佐町

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

Nikaho City isthis kind of town.

01Yuri Coast Namiyoke Stone Wall, a national historic site on the Sea of Japan coast at Serita and Tobi in Nikaho, has surviving repair-related documents from 1782 to 1858, and its drain sluices are preserved
02The beech forest at Shishigahana Wetland has many agariko, trees that sent up shoots after logging over snow for charcoal, and at Kinpo Shrine in Kotaki the Chokurairo dance is performed on an earthen stage
03In Kamigo, wide, shallow warm-water channels that cope with the cold of Mount Chokai's snowmelt are a prefectural tangible cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nikaho City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗