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Nagareyama City

City: not where Kondo Isami holed up.

Akimoto family house storehouse

Photo by Suikotei (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Prefectural office monument

The prefectural office stood atthe Tanaka domain's Honda lower residence.

Prefectural office monument in Nagareyama City — Photo by Temptation21 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1869 the office of Katsushika Prefecture was set up at the former Honda family lower residence in Ka Village, and apart from a short interval it stayed there as a prefectural office until Chiba Prefecture was formed in 1873. A monument carved "Katsushika-Inba Prefecture historic site" stands on the site.

Katsushika Prefecture set up, 1869
Became Chiba Prefecture, 1873
Historic site monument on the spot

02 ／ Great shimenawa

On a hill of the "mountain that flowed in" legend,a great shimenawa is remade every year.

Akagi Shrine stands on a small hill shaped like an upturned bowl. It is said to have formed from soil that flowed down from Mt. Akagi in Joshu, and the city calls it the setting of the legend behind the name Nagareyama ("flowing mountain"). The great shimenawa, twisted from three ropes, is said to be about 6.5 m long and about 500 kg, and hangs until the following year.

City-designated folk culture
About 6.5 m, about 500 kg
Remade every year

03 ／ Mirin-making tools

Thirty-koku vats, warming tubs and more:mirin tools from the Taisho to Showa eras.

The mirin-brewing tools held by the city museum were used in the traditional method from the Taisho to the Showa era. The vat holding thirty koku, the koji trays used to make rice koji, and the "daki" warming tubs, filled with hot water or ice and sunk into the vats to regulate ripening temperature, are among those designated as a prefectural folk cultural property.

Prefecturally designated folk cultural property
121 items
Held by the city museum

Nagareyama City 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–October 2019)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

22 minutes to Akihabara by Rapid.

about 200,000 people
60 min to a city centre

On the Tsukuba Express, the Rapid takes 22 minutes from Akihabara to Minami-Nagareyama and 11 minutes from Kita-Senju. From Tokyo Station, there are JR Musashino Line trains that reach Minami-Nagareyama in 46 minutes. City Hall is about a 3-minute walk from Nagareyama Station on the Ryutetsu Nagareyama Line, the station the city lists first.

People living here: 199,849people
Area: 35.32km²
Households: 83,115households
Rent (average for rentals): 73,853yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 128 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —38 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Nagareyama City in Japan35.856°N 139.903°E

to AkihabaraTsukuba Express22min
to Kita-SenjuTsukuba Express11min
to TokyoJR Musashino Line46min

Travel times follow つくばエクスプレス公式サイト（mir.co.jp）の時刻表が使う列車時刻表データ（transfer-train.navitime.biz/tx/trains-timetable。平日・土休日の下り全列車）を 2026-10-22 に取り、秋葉原・北千住の発→南流山の着を列車ごとに数えた。JR武蔵野線は JR東日本の駅の時刻表（東京駅京葉線・武蔵野線府中本町方面下り。2610版）を docs/handoff/tools/jr_count.py で数えた (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Nagareyama City

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

10.2km

Chiba Prefecture: Kashiwa City, Matsudo City, Noda City
Saitama Prefecture: Yoshikawa City, Misato City

Nagareyama City isthis kind of town.

01The Akimoto family house storehouse is a storehouse moved in the late Meiji era from a drapery shop, and the city writes that it is not the storehouse where Kondo Isami holed up
02The offices of Katsushika and Inba prefectures stood at the former Honda lower residence in Ka Village, and a historic site monument stands there
03Akagi Shrine's great shimenawa ritual, a city-designated folk culture, takes place on a hill tied to the legend that a mountain flowed in

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nagareyama City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗