Yuzawa City

Emperor Meiji toured the miners' tunnel.

Miyuki Pit, Innai Silver Mine

Photo by Ippukucho (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Buriko stone

Grains grown in hot spring waterlook like sandfish roe.

Jijo-keiseki is a hot spring deposit, a mass of grains 1.5 to 4 mm across that look like fish roe. Because it resembles the roe of the hatahata, or sailfin sandfish, locals call it Buriko-ishi. The source lies in the hills 470 m north-east of Inazumi Onsen, where three layers about 10 cm thick are held between sinter. It was made a national Natural Monument in 1924.

Grains 1.5 to 4 mm across
Three layers, about 10 cm thick
National Natural Monument, 9 December 1924

02 ／ Kashima-sama

With rice straw and first ears from every house,a 4-metre figure is re-dressed.

In the Iwasaki district, the three neighbourhoods of Suehirocho, Sakaecho and Midoricho have long set up straw figures about 4 m tall at the village edge, praying against plague and for safe homes and a good harvest. The figure is called Kashima-sama. Every spring and autumn, all households bring rice straw and first ears to re-dress it. Apart from the frame, it is all rice straw.

Three neighbourhoods: Suehirocho, Sakaecho, Midoricho
City Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1991
Selected for prefectural record, 2011

03 ／ Ogachi Assembly Hall

The Ogachi district's assembly hallis a Western-style building by a German.

This is the assembly hall of the Ogachi district office, begun in 1891 and opened with a ceremony on 1 November 1892. The designer was German (name unknown) and the master carpenter was Abe Magoshiro. It is a two-storey timber building with clapboard walls and shuttered sash windows. It is now used as the Ogachi District Assembly Hall Memorial Museum.

Opening ceremony, 1 November 1892
Prefectural designation, 10 April 1975
Two-storey timber building

Living here

Bordering Yamagata and Miyagi, Akita's southern gateway.

about 40,000 people

Yuzawa lies in the far south-east of Akita Prefecture, next to Yamagata and Miyagi, and the city calls itself the prefecture's southern gateway. In 2005 it merged with the towns of Inakawa and Ogachi and the village of Minase. From Yuzawa Station on the JR Ōu Main Line, the city's guide to reaching Tokyo has travellers change at Ōmagari Station to the Akita Shinkansen. The city also has the Iwaido Cave, a national historic site, the Kawarage acidic alteration zone, a prefectural Natural Monument, and Sugō Bridge, a prefecturally designated structure.

People living here: 42,091people
Area: 790.91km²
Households: 15,685households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,770yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 34 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: —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 10 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Yuzawa City in Japan39.164°N 140.496°E

Territory of Yuzawa 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

38.3km

Akita Prefecture: 横手市, 羽後町, 東成瀬村, 由利本荘市
Yamagata Prefecture: 真室川町, 金山町, 最上町, 新庄市
Miyagi Prefecture: 大崎市, 栗原市

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

Yuzawa City isthis kind of town.

01The Miyuki Pit at the Innai Silver Mine site, a prefectural historic site, began as the miners' entrance known as Pit No. 5; it was the tunnel opened for Emperor Meiji's tour in 1881 and was later renamed as a memorial pit
02Deep in the hills of Akinomiya lies the source of jijo-keiseki, or Buriko stone, a national Natural Monument, and in three neighbourhoods of Iwasaki a straw figure called Kashima-sama is re-dressed in a local ritual
03The Former Ogachi District Assembly Hall, completed in 1892, stands as a prefecturally designated building, and the lower two courses of the old Innai primary school's playground wall use slag from the Innai silver mine

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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