02411 ／ ろっかしょむら
Aomori Prefecture 上北郡Six old village names, from one horse.
Kimura document, village names01 ／ Tomari dugout canoe
The Tomari dugout canoe is a one-person boat for working the rocky shore, used to gather abalone and wakame. Around 1919-20, a man of Tomari had it made from beech cut in Deto. The nationally designated Tomari canoe is a different one, held in Aomori City.
02 ／ Sugae Masumi
In the winter of 1793, the Edo-period traveler Sugae Masumi came to see the Obuchi pasture, praised in the Gosen Wakashu poetry anthology. From the 30th of the 11th lunar month he spent about two weeks in the village, and left poems and drawings in his travel diary.
03 ／ Oishidaira site
The Oishidaira site lies on the right bank of a river north of Obuchi Lagoon, a settlement mainly of the late Jomon period. Its 198 finds are an Important Cultural Property; the prefecture notes the hand- and footprint clay pieces show Jomon ritual. They are held at the Aomori Prefectural Museum, closed to the public.
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 village has no railway station. Its official guide routes every approach, by Aomori Airport, Misawa Airport or Shinkansen, to Rokkasho Village Office. From Noheji Station the bus takes about an hour, and from Shichinohe-Towada Station a shared taxi by advance reservation connects.
−1.6% since 2015
11,063 → 10,367
111.62km² of it habitable
2024
2.0 people per household
2020
6.8 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
33.4km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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