12215 ／ あさひし
Chiba PrefectureHe designed his own two-room home.
Ohara Yugaku Site, former home01 ／ Cloisonne
Namikawa Sosuke was born in 1847 as the second son of a farming family in Jaen Village and, in the Meiji era, perfected the wireless cloisonne technique (musen shippo). The city's chronology says he invented it around 1880. In 2024 the city designated a related collection of his cloisonne works as a cultural property.
02 ／ Roadside trees
In the Kansei era (1789-1801), Sakura Domain planted wax trees (haze) along the road to promote local industry; the line was called the Omade wax tree avenue of 800 ken (1,440 m). They were meant to supply candle wax but could not be harvested, and the city notes they are now known not to be Ryukyu wax trees.
03 ／ Tsuku-mai
Enyaho is the common name of the Shinto ritual tsuku-mai at the festival of Ota Yasaka Shrine. The city states it is held every 27 July, and it combines a silent mask drama with acrobatics atop a pole. It was selected as a national intangible folk cultural property for documentation in 1999 and designated a prefectural one in 2008.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The fastest daily Limited Express Shiosai from Tokyo Station reaches Asahi Station in 92 minutes (JR East timetable, October 2026). The city's access page says about 90 minutes. In 2005 the former Asahi City merged with Kaijo, Iioka and Hikata towns to form the present Asahi City.
−4.3% since 2015
70,643 → 63,745
117.91km² of it habitable
2024
2.6 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.0 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-07-01 に新設合併（海上町・飯岡町・干潟町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp、2026年10月版）の旭駅（駅コード0050）・下り（銚子方面）の列車ページを `docs/handoff/tools/jr_count.py`（『毎日』だけを残すよう手直し）で数えた。東京の発から旭の着までを列車ごとに引いた (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
14.8km
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