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02424 ／ひがしどおりむら

Aomori Prefecture 下北郡

Higashidori Village

A serow's winter stance named a horse.

Kandachime horses, Cape Shiriya

Photo by Soica2001 (Public domain)

01 ／ Lighthouse

A brick lighthouse with double wallsstands on the cape.

It stands at Cape Shiriya, the northeastern tip of the Shimokita Peninsula, facing the Tsugaru Strait to the north and the Pacific to the east. Built in 1876 under the design guidance of the British engineer Brunton, it is a double-cylinder brick tower 32.8 m high; the Agency for Cultural Affairs also notes it as the first lighthouse fitted with a fog signal.

Built 1876
Height 32.8 m
Important Cultural Property, 2022

02 ／ Nomai

A dance that began with mountain asceticshas been kept up village by village.

The Shimokita Nomai, an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is a lion-dance tradition once carried by Shugen mountain ascetics. The village says it was brought by Mena Fudoin in the late 15th century and is kept up in 14 hamlets. The 20 Noh-dance masks handed down at Mena Fudoin are a prefectural tangible folk cultural property.

Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1989
20 masks, prefectural designation
14 hamlets (village)

03 ／ Village Office

After a hundred years with its office outside,the village built a triangle, circle and square.

After the village system began in 1889, the office stood in neighbouring Tanabu Town because the hamlets were scattered. The building moved to Sunamata, inside the village, in 1988. The village says the office, exchange centre and gymnasium are a triangle, circle and square, meaning heaven, earth and people.

Village system, 1889
Moved to Sunamata, 1988
Triangle, circle, square

Higashidori Village 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 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））

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

Living here

No railway station; the office is in Sunamata.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the village, and the Village Office, at its centre, is in Sunamata. An exchange centre and a gymnasium stand beside the office building.

People living here: 5,955people
Area: 295.32km²
Households: 2,559households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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 3 municipalities.

Higashidori Village in Japan41.278°N 141.329°E

Territory of Higashidori Village

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

36.7km

Mutsu City, Yokohama Town, Rokkasho Village

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

Higashidori Village isthis kind of town.

01The kandachime is a name for the free-roaming horses that stand still on the snowfields of Cape Shiriya in winter, likened to a serow's winter stance; the horses and their habitat are a prefectural natural monument
02Cape Shiriya has the brick Shiriyazaki Lighthouse of 1876, and the village keeps the Nomai, a dance with ascetic roots, hamlet by hamlet
03The office stood outside the village for nearly 100 years after the village system began; it moved to Sunamata in 1988, where a triangle, circle and square now stand

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Higashidori Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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