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02384 ／つるたまち

Aomori Prefecture 北津軽郡

Tsuruta Town

Field-water pond mirrors Mount Iwaki.

Mawarizeki Pond, Tsugaru-Fujimi

Photo by あおもりくま (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Oni at the torii

Torii oni in three of the town's shrinesare said to differ in form.

Oni at the torii in Tsuruta Town — Photo by 歯河長瀞夫 (CC BY 4.0)

Some Tsugaru shrines keep an oni at the torii; the tourism site counts over 30, mainly in the northwest. The town has three, at Sakai, Kurumidate and Oki. The Hachiman shrine at Kurumidate has a deity-type oni with a Hannya-like face, and small red and blue oni sit above the worship hall door. Its origin is said to be uncertain.

Oni at 3 shrines in town
30+ across Tsugaru (tourism site)
Kurumidate: deity type, Hannya-like

02 ／ Todorokko fir

A giant once said to stand in a row of sixis now a single fir.

The Myodozaki fir, also called Todorokko, is a prefectural natural monument. The tourism site gives its age as about 350 years, height about 30 m and trunk girth 6 m. It is said that six once stood in a row. It is on private land and can be viewed only from outside the grounds.

Prefectural natural monument
About 350 years, about 30 m tall
Viewing from outside only

03 ／ Former Mizumoto school

A cypress schoolhouse built in 1936is used as an exhibition hall.

The Tsuruta Town History and Culture Hall is an exhibition hall in the schoolhouse of Mizumoto Elementary School, which closed in 2004. The tourism site says a wooden hiba schoolhouse built in 1936 for a school founded in 1876 is rare nationwide, and that it has received town cultural property status.

Built 1936
Closed 2004
School founded 1876

Tsuruta Town 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 June–August 2014)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

Rail here means two Gono Line stations.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town's two stations are Mutsu-Tsuruda and Tsurudomari on the JR Gono Line, and the tourism site introduces Mutsu-Tsuruda as the station nearest the town's center. Tsuru-no-Maihashi bridge across the pond is 300 m long and built of Aomori hiba.

People living here: 12,074people
Area: 46.43km²
Households: 4,256households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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

Surrounded by 4 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Tsuruta Town in Japan40.759°N 140.428°E

Territory of Tsuruta Town

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

7.5km

Itayanagi Town, Tsugaru City, Hirosaki City, Goshogawara City

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

Tsuruta Town isthis kind of town.

01The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries says Mawarizeki Ootameike was built in 1660 by the Tsugaru lord Nobumasa as a water source for new rice land in western Tsugaru; its nickname is Lake Tsugaru-Fujimi
02Three of the town's shrines have a torii oni, and the tourism site introduces the one at the Kurumidate Hachiman shrine as a deity type with a Hannya-like face
03The Myodozaki fir Todorokko is a prefectural natural monument, and the 1936 Mizumoto school building is now a history hall

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tsuruta Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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