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12421 ／いちのみやまち

Chiba Prefecture 長生郡

Ichinomiya Town

Man-made lake named for a Chinese lake.

Doteiko, an irrigation lake

Photo by xpon (Public domain)

01 ／ Shrine hall

Main sanctuary and worship hall joinedin the gongen-zukuri style.

The hall of Tamasaki Shrine joins the main sanctuary and the worship hall in the gongen-zukuri style, a Chiba Prefecture-designated tangible cultural property. The town's booklet dates the present hall to 1687, and the main sanctuary was repaired and repainted in the Edo and Meiji periods. The shrine gave the town its name.

Chiba Prefecture-designated tangible cultural property
Built in 1687 (town booklet)
Composite gongen-zukuri hall

02 ／ Historic site

The last lord of Ichinomiya later served as town mayor.His grave stands on Shiroyama, overlooking reorganized paddies.

Kano Hisayoshi became governor of the Ichinomiya domain in 1869, and after serving as governor of Kagoshima Prefecture and other posts, became mayor of Ichinomiya. He died in 1919, and at the townspeople's request a grave was built in 1922 on Shiroyama, from which the reorganized paddies can be seen. In 1918, in his lifetime, a stele carved with about 600 characters of classical Chinese was also erected.

Grave: town-designated historic site (1975)
Stele of about 600 characters
Grave built in 1922

03 ／ Kite

A kite shaped like a maiwai coatis said to have been created in 1791.

Kazusa Tonbi is a kite in the same shape as the maiwai, the coat fishermen wear on a day of big catches; the town calls it the original sleeve kite. A bamboo frame is covered with washi paper, and a whale whisker once made the humming device called unari. The design Takasago Okina Ouna survives as a carving on the shrine hall's frog-leg brackets.

Town-designated folk culture
Said to date from 1791
About 40 Edo-period woodblocks survive

Ichinomiya 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 July–August 2024)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

60 minutes from Tokyo Station by limited express Wakashio.

about 10,000 people
60 min to a city centre
Rural district town

Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station is 60 minutes at best from Tokyo Station by limited express Wakashio (October 2026 timetable; the town also says about 60 minutes). The town has a second station, Torami Station, on the JR Sotobo Line.

People living here: 11,897people
Area: 22.97km²
Households: 4,984households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 11 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Ichinomiya Town in Japan35.373°N 140.369°E

to TokyoLtd. exp. Wakashio60min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（上総一ノ宮駅外房線下り・駅コード 0439）の平日（0439010）と土曜・休日（0439011）。東京駅の発時刻と上総一ノ宮駅の着時刻の差。2610版（2026年10月）。docs/handoff/tools/jr_count.py の best を『毎日』だけに絞って数えた (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Ichinomiya 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

7.0km

Isumi City, Mutsuzawa Town, Chosei Village

Ichinomiya Town isthis kind of town.

01Doteiko is an irrigation lake of about 6.8 ha, and the town's booklet says Lord Kano Hisaakira had it built, with a monument for its completion raised in 1844
02Tamasaki Shrine's hall is a gongen-zukuri composite, and the Takasago Okina Ouna design of Kazusa Tonbi survives as a carving on its frog-leg brackets
03Kano Hisayoshi, the last lord of Ichinomiya, served as Kagoshima governor and later town mayor; his grave stands on Shiroyama above reorganized paddies

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Ichinomiya Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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