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02203 ／はちのへし

Hachinohe City

Gulls sit on eggs in shrine grounds.

Kabushima gull breeding colony

Photo by くろふね (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Sumigoten Omotemon Gate

A ridge gate of 1797 remainsat the Hachinohe domain's Sumigoten.

Sumigoten Omotemon Gate in Hachinohe City — Photo by house-nasu (CC BY 2.5)

Hachinohe Castle's Sumigoten Omotemon is a prefectural Important Cultural Property, a large ridge gate three bays wide. The prefecture dates it to 1797. The city says the castle town has 12 streets named for dates, laid out so that paired front and back streets add up to nine.

Built 1797
Prefectural cultural property, 1981
12 date-named streets

02 ／ Gassho Dogu

The praying clay figure was foundleaning against the dwelling's wall.

This National Treasure clay figure came from pit dwelling no. 15 at the Kazahari 1 site. The Korekawa Jomon Museum says it lay on its right side against the north wall opposite the entrance, its back leaning on the wall. Hachinohe City owns it.

19.8 cm tall
National Treasure, 2009
Late Jomon period

03 ／ Nejo Castle

A Momoyama-period hall is restoredin the castle's main compound.

Nejo Castle in Hachinohe City — Photo by 小池隆 (CC BY 4.0)

Nejo Castle Site is a National Historic Site. It is said to have been built by Nanbu Moroyuki in 1334 and was the Nanbu clan's seat for about 300 years. The main compound has the main hall, workshop, storehouses and stable restored from excavation findings.

Said built 1334
National Historic Site, 1941
About 18.5 ha

Hachinohe City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot April 2024)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））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Tokyo in 2 h 44 min on the Tohoku Shinkansen.

about 220,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

From Tokyo Station to Hachinohe Station, the fastest daily Tohoku Shinkansen train takes 2 hours 44 minutes on the JR East timetable of November 2026.

People living here: 223,415people
Area: 305.56km²
Households: 95,671households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,899yen
Healthcare: 21 hospitals ／ 167 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-31 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —74 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Hachinohe City in Japan40.512°N 141.488°E

to TokyoTohoku Shinkansen164min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp/2611・東京駅東北・北海道新幹線下り平日・土休日）の列車ページ261件を、本体の道具（aomori-prep/jr の fetch.py と count_aomori.py）が引いて保存したものから、八戸の『着』を数え直した。運転日の欄が空の列車だけ（臨時・日付つきは外す）。東京の発→八戸の着で毎日運転の最速は164分：はやぶさ23号〈3023B。東京12:20発→八戸15:04着〉・はやぶさ27号〈3027B。14:20発→17:04着〉（平日・土休日の両方に同じ分数で載る）。165分は29号〈14:44→17:29〉・39号〈19:20→22:05〉。164分の71号〈8071B。08:52→11:36〉は運転日の欄に日付が入る臨時なので採らない (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Hachinohe City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.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

28.7km

Aomori Prefecture: Nanbu Town, Hashikami Town, Gonohe Town, Oirase Town
Iwate Prefecture: Karumai Town

Hachinohe City isthis kind of town.

01Kabushima is a small island of about 1.8 ha and a nationally designated Natural Monument gull colony; the gulls arrive from late February and leave in mid-August
02The Sumigoten Omotemon is a prefectural Important Cultural Property, and the castle town has 12 date-named streets
03The National Treasure Gassho Dogu was excavated at the Kazahari 1 site, and Nejo Castle Site, a National Historic Site, has a restored main hall

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hachinohe City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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