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Aomori Prefecture 三戸郡5 yen to buy, 15 more spent, they say.
Gonohe magistrate's office gate01 ／ Fire station
A two-storey timber building of 1922, 12.7 m high, with a watchtower. The walls are clapboard and the second floor has semicircular arched windows, giving the exterior Western-style, modern features. A fire engine was assigned in 1940, so the front was extended. It is still used as a fire station.
02 ／ Locomotive
DC351 is a 35-tonne locomotive built by the Kisha company in 1956 and transferred from Nanbu Railway to Kaya Railway in 1967. In winter it was fitted with a snow plough and also used to clear snow. When the Kaya SL Square closed, Gonohe took it over; it came back in April 2022 and is now displayed and preserved at the Gonohe Kyodokan local museum.
03 ／ Samurai house
A samurai residence of the late Edo period. The Maruko family is said to have settled in the Kuraishi area after the Kunohe Rebellion of 1591. The town records that it is the only samurai house in the prefecture to keep that layout. In the same area stands the Wamura oak, a prefectural natural monument.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot May–October 2021)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
No railway runs through the town. On the Nanbu Bus timetable revised in April 2026, it takes 42 minutes on weekdays (40 on weekends and holidays) from Hachinohe Station to the Gonohe Eki-mae stop, with no change of bus. The tourism association's map says the stop keeps the name of a station on the former Nanbu Railway.
−8% since 2015
20,138 → 16,042
84.39km² of it habitable
2024
2.6 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
5.0 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-07-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 南部バス（岩手県北自動車株式会社 南部支社）公式『路線別時刻表（ポケット時刻表）』令和8年4月1日改正ダイヤ（令和8年3月3日現在。PDF は同社サイトの時刻表のページ https://www.nanbubus.co.jp/routebus/timetable/ の『路線別時刻表』）の『五戸～八戸線（扇田経由）』八戸駅前→五戸駅前。平日の便は八戸駅前の発→五戸駅前の着がどの便も42分（例：9:00→9:42、9:50→10:32、11:00→11:42、12:10→12:52、13:20→14:02、15:35→16:17、16:45→17:27）、土曜・日祝日の便は40分（例：9:10→9:50、11:00→11:40、13:20→14:00）。平日と土休日で違うので遅いほうの42分 (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
18.8km
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