Yurihonjo City

A hall open to the roof, for a Buddha.

Akata Daibutsu, Chōkoku-ji

Photo by whiz0520 (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Falls and potholes

A river drops over a lava cliff,and eddies have formed holes in the rock.

About 100,000 years ago an eruption of Mount Chōkai sent out a great flow of lava. The Koyoshi River drops at once over its end cliff, a fall of about 57 m in three stages. Near the first and second falls the rock holds round or oval potholes, 30 cm to 2 m across, formed when flood water carrying sand and gravel swirled over the riverbed.

About 57 m, three stages
Potholes 30 cm to 2 m across
Prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument, 1960

02 ／ Farmhouse

Pillars dressed with an adzestand a ken apart.

A farmhouse in Yashima, on the northern foot of Mount Chōkai. It now has a wing in the nakamon-zukuri style, but was first a straight-plan house. The kitchen juts out from the earthen floor, and the rooms follow a tidy four-room plan. Its pillars, dressed with a round-bladed adze and set a ken apart, with no sashimono joinery, show an old style. The Agency for Cultural Affairs calls it among the oldest traditional houses in the prefecture.

Important Cultural Property, 1973
19.7 m by 10.6 m
Hip roof, thatch

03 ／ Jizō

A thousand Jizō,visited in snowshoes through the snow.

According to the city tourism association, because six Jizō once stood on Oriwatari Pass, the priest Zezan, founder of Chōkoku-ji in Akata, set up a Jizō for long life there. From 1989, over about two years, a thousand Jizō were raised by many donors. Since the work was finished in 1991, 24 January has been set as the day of the first Jizō visit, when people walk through the snow in snowshoes to pay respects to every Jizō.

A thousand Jizō
Built over about two years from 1989
First Jizō visit, 24 January

Living here

One city and seven towns joined, about 65 km long.

about 70,000 people

The city was formed in March 2005 by the merger of Honjo, Yashima, Iwaki, Yuri, Ouchi, Higashiyuri, Nishime and Chōkai. Its area is 1,209.61 km², about 32.3 km east to west and 64.7 km north to south, which the city calls the largest in the prefecture. Forest covers about 74.6 percent, and the Koyoshi River runs through the middle to the Sea of Japan. The gateway is Ugo-Honjō Station, on the JR Uetsu Main Line and the Yuri Kogen Railway.

People living here: 74,707people
Area: 1,209.59km²
Households: 28,362households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,303yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —27 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 1 prefectures.

Yurihonjo City in Japan39.386°N 140.049°E

Territory of Yurihonjo 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

64.9km

Akita Prefecture: 秋田市, 羽後町, 横手市, にかほ市, 大仙市, 湯沢市
Yamagata Prefecture: 真室川町, 酒田市, 遊佐町

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

Yurihonjo City isthis kind of town.

01Chōkoku-ji's two-storey Daibutsu Hall in Akata, a nationally registered tangible cultural property, houses a standing Eleven-Headed Kannon, the Akata Daibutsu; the present figure was restored in 1892 through a donation
02The Hottai Falls, where the Koyoshi River drops over the end cliff of a lava flow, are a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument, and Yashima has the Tsuchida House, a farmhouse that is an Important Cultural Property
03At Oriwatari stand a thousand Jizō, and according to the city tourism association, 24 January is set as the day of the first Jizō visit, made on foot in snowshoes through the snow

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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