Oga City

Demons' steps are said to stop at 999.

Goshado steps, Akagami Shrine

Photo by らんで (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Mantaibutsu

Jizō statues linethe walls and ceiling.

In a hall three ken square in the Shinzan district of Kitaura, about 12,000 carved cedar Jizō statues are arranged in an orderly way from under the floor to the four walls and the ceiling. The prefecture designated it a tangible folk cultural property in 1987. The photo shows the outside of the hall.

1987 Prefecture-designated folk property
About 12,000 statues (city)
A hall three ken square

02 ／ Stone pillar

A stone pillar stands on Mt. Kanpu.Donations came even from Karafuto and China.

In 1930 a local society of Oga set it up on the summit of Mt. Kanpu, to make the Charter Oath of Five Articles a signpost for Oga's culture. Donations came from schools, women's groups and companies, and from as far as China and Karafuto. The stone is pyroxene andesite from the mountain; the city calls it rare, with only a few in Japan.

Built 1930
Height 7.765 m
City-designated 2014

03 ／ Mountain castle

A ridge cut into steps,square enclosures laid in a row.

On a hill of around 100 m facing the Sea of Japan lie the remains of a late-medieval mountain castle, a national historic site. The main remains are spread over three districts. In the central one, the ridges around a valley were levelled into steps, with square enclosures tens of metres across in a row; the hollows of wells remain in enclosures ringed by earthworks.

Around 100 m above sea level
Remains in 3 districts
National historic site

Living here

Four stations on the Oga Line, ten city bus routes.

about 30,000 people

The railway is the JR Oga Line, with four stations in the city: Funakoshi, Wakimoto, Hadachi and Oga. The city runs ten bus routes, and four of them include services that must be booked in advance.

People living here: 25,154people
Area: 241.09km²
Households: 10,492households
Rent (average for rentals): 31,935yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 25 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-22 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

Oga City in Japan39.887°N 139.848°E

Territory of Oga 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

24.4km

大潟村, 三種町, 潟上市

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

Oga City isthis kind of town.

01The steps up to Goshado at Akagami Shrine, built in 1709, are said to have been piled up by demons in one night, stopping at 999 when a rooster crowed
02In Shinzan, Kitaura, a prefecture-designated hall, Shinzan no Mantaibutsu, holds about 12,000 carved cedar Jizō statues along its walls and ceiling
03On the summit of Mt. Kanpu stands the city-designated stone pillar Chikai no Mihashira, and square enclosures lie in a row at the nationally designated Wakimoto Castle site

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

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