02401 ／ のへじまち
Aomori Prefecture 上北郡A snow-break forest stays in a station.
Noheji Snow-break Forest01 ／ Night lantern
The night lantern in the Hama district was built in 1827 (Bunsei 10) by a local shipping agent, so that ships could enter and leave safely at night. In the Edo period Noheji Port was a trading harbor busy with ships. It is a town-designated historic site.
02 ／ Excavated finds
The red-lacquered wooden bowl dates from the end of the Early Jomon to the start of the Middle Jomon, and traces remain of shell lids stuck on its handles. With the plate-shaped clay figurine from the Arito-toriitai 4 site, it is a national Important Cultural Property; the town's History and Folklore Museum is their location.
03 ／ Port records
The passenger-ship ledger is the customer list of the Igarashi family, who ran a boarding house for ships. It was kept from the Edo period to the early Meiji era and records where ships came from. It is a town-designated cultural property. At Saikoji, 13 gravestones of Kitamae-bune crew have been confirmed so far.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June–November 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
The Japan Society of Civil Engineers chose the forest as a Selected Civil Engineering Heritage in fiscal 2004. It was completed in Meiji 26 (1893). The Society gives its main tree as cedar and its size as 400 m long and 50 m deep. It lies within Noheji Station.
−8.5% since 2015
15,969 → 12,374
27.2km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
4.0 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
15.7km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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