Ono City

On Hangeshō, skewered grilled mackerel.

Hangeshō grilled mackerel

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Itoyo

Sticklebacks that never go to seabuild nests on the bottom of a pond.

The itoyo (イトヨ, three-spined stickleback) grows up in the sea and swims upriver to spawn, but the fish of Hongan Shōzu (本願清水) never go down to the sea. From around May into autumn, the males build nests on the pond bottom and guard the young. They need spring water that stays below 20°C even in summer, and the city calls this the southern limit of the landlocked form. The pond is said to have been dug by Kanamori Nagachika (金森長近) as the castle town's water source.

National Natural Monument, 1934
Southern limit of the landlocked form
Water below 20°C

02 ／ Ōno-maru

A domain in a basin built a sailing shipand wintered in Sakhalin.

In 1855 the Ōno Domain decided to settle Ezo, and in 1858 it completed a Western-style sailing ship, the Ōno-maru (大野丸). The next year, sailing from its home port of Tsuruga, it carried settlers to Kita-Ezo (北蝦夷地, Sakhalin), where they began wintering at Ushoro (鵜城). In 1860 the shogunate made part of the land a quasi-domain of Ōno. The ship sank off Nemuro in 1864, and in 1869 the land was handed back to the new government.

Ōno-maru completed, 1858
Quasi-domain, 1860
Returned to the government, 1869

03 ／ Jakuen

The founder who came from Song Chinais said to have brought three paintings.

Hōkyō-ji (宝慶寺) was founded by Jakuen (寂円), a monk who came from Song China out of devotion to Dōgen, and is regarded as the second training temple of the Sōtō school after Eihei-ji. The portrait of Rujing (如浄), Dōgen's teacher in China, the portrait of the Tang Zen monk Yunju Daoying (雲居道膺) and a Shaka triad are said to have been brought by Jakuen; all three are prefectural cultural properties. Jakuen's disciple Giun (義雲) became the temple's second abbot and then the fifth abbot of Eihei-ji.

Second training temple of the Sōtō school
Three scrolls said to be brought by Jakuen
Giun, fifth abbot of Eihei-ji

Living here

In the town centre, many homes draw groundwater from wells.

about 30,000 people

There are about 8,000 wells in the city, and almost all household water comes from groundwater. To ease the fall in the water table in winter, since fiscal 1978 the city has rented rice paddies and flooded them every year from October to February. The railway is the JR Etsumi-Hoku Line, centred on Echizen-Ōno Station. Ōno absorbed Izumi village in 2005 and is the largest municipality by area in the prefecture.

People living here: 31,286people
Area: 872.43km²
Households: 10,868households
Rent (average for rentals): 30,490yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-11-07 に編入合併（和泉村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —12 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

Borders 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Ono City in Japan35.980°N 136.488°E

Territory of Ono City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

37.3km

Fukui Prefecture: 勝山市, 池田町, 福井市
Gifu Prefecture: 郡上市, 本巣市, 関市, 揖斐川町, 高山市
Ishikawa Prefecture: 白山市

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

Ono City isthis kind of town.

01On Hangeshō, the 11th day after the summer solstice, people eat whole skewered grilled mackerel, which the Ōno Domain once obtained through its exclave on the Echizen coast
02In Hongan Shōzu, said to have been dug as the castle town's water source, live sticklebacks that never go to sea, protected as a National Natural Monument
03In the late Edo period the Ōno Domain built the sailing ship Ōno-maru and set up a base in Kita-Ezo, and in the mountains stands Hōkyō-ji, founded by Jakuen, a monk from Song China

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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