Yokote City

A bonden enters the pond as an offering.

Numa-iri Bonden, Aratokoro

Photo by Rarisan (CC0)

01 ／ Kamakura

By the wells of the merchants' quarter,they made a snow hollow for the water god.

Yokote's kamakura is a Little New Year event honouring the water god. The city explains that in Tomachi, where merchants lived, a snow hollow was made beside a neighbourhood well on the night of the 15th of the first lunar month, the water god was enshrined in it, and people prayed for good water. It is said to have about 450 years of history and is a city-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Night of the 15th, first lunar month
Said to be about 450 years old
City-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property

02 ／ Western-style house

Built as an English teacher's home,a Western-style house of bare wood.

Kyū-Nisshinkan was built in 1902 as the home of Charles C. Champlin, an American who came to teach English at the former Yokote Middle School. A simple house of bare wood, it keeps features of Meiji-era Western architecture, such as the capitals of the entrance and balcony columns and the comb-shaped eaves. It is a private residence.

Built 1902
Bare wood construction
Prefecture-designated Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Three storeys

Nine through-pillars hold upa three-storey wooden main house.

The former Ishida Rikichi house in Masuda belonged to a family that brewed sake until before the war. Its main house, a wooden building of three full storeys, is held up by nine through-pillars, and the city says the storehouse behind it was raised in 1881. The city describes it as a wooden three-storey house that is unusual even in the prefecture.

Nine through-pillars, 5 sun square
Storehouse raised 1881
City-designated cultural property

Living here

From Akita, about 1 h 20 min on the Ōu Main Line.

about 90,000 people

The city says it takes about 1 hour 20 minutes from Akita to Yokote on the JR Ōu Main Line, and about 1 hour 30 minutes from Morioka via Ōmagari (both the shortest times, transfers included). There is no Akita Shinkansen station in the city; the trains stop at Ōmagari Station in Daisen. Yokote Station is where the Ōu Main Line and the Kitakami Line meet.

People living here: 85,555people
Area: 692.8km²
Households: 31,109households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,021yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 72 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に新設合併（増田町・平鹿町・雄物川町・大森町・十文字町・山内村・大雄村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —30 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Yokote City in Japan39.314°N 140.567°E

Territory of Yokote 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

35.2km

Akita Prefecture: 湯沢市, 由利本荘市, 東成瀬村, 大仙市, 美郷町, 羽後町
Iwate Prefecture: 西和賀町

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

Yokote City isthis kind of town.

01In the Aratokoro hamlet of Daigo, the Numa-iri Bonden, in which a bonden is offered at Benzaiten Pond, has been held as a prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
02Yokote's kamakura is a Little New Year event honouring the water god, said to draw on the custom of making a snow hollow beside a well in the merchants' quarter
03Kyū-Nisshinkan, an English teacher's home of bare wood, and the three-storey wooden Former Ishida Rikichi house both remain in the city

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yokote City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗