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07202 ／あいづわかまつし

Aizuwakamatsu City

Built at a clan school to study stars.

Nisshinkan Observatory remains

Photo by Mukasora (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Ossuary pagodas

Small pagodas and containers holding part of the remainsnumber 14,824 at Hachiyoji Temple.

There is a belief of placing part of a person's remains in a small pagoda or container at a sacred site and praying for rebirth in paradise. Hachiyoji Temple is said to have been opened by the priest Kuya, and small wooden ossuary pagodas have long been offered at the Amida Hall in its grounds.

14,798 small pagodas and 26 containers
National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
Said to have been opened by the priest Kuya

02 ／ Sazae-do

The ways up and down are entirely separate,in a six-sided, three-story hall with a double spiral slope.

This is a six-sided, three-story hall 16.5 meters high. Along its double spiral slope are enshrined the Saigoku Thirty-three Kannon statues, and the ways up and down are entirely separate one-way paths. The city records that it was devised by Ikudo, a monk of the former Shosoji Temple.

16.5 meters high, six sides, three stories
Separate one-way paths up and down
National Important Cultural Property (designated June 27, 1995)

03 ／ Moor

A raised bog where peat rises in a dome at its centerlies about 1 km west of the north end of Lake Inawashiro's west shore.

This is a raised bog at roughly 525 meters above sea level. Northern plants such as small cranberry grow here, and the city explains that some have grown here since the ice age about 20,000 years ago. Entry is usually restricted to protect the bog.

Roughly 525 meters above sea level
About 1 km west of the north end of Lake Inawashiro's west shore
National Natural Monument (designated March 24, 1928)

Aizuwakamatsu 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 2018)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

About 150 minutes from Tokyo, changing at Koriyama.

about 120,000 people

The city's overview estimates about 150 minutes from Tokyo to Aizu-Wakamatsu Station, by the Tohoku Shinkansen and the Banetsu West Line with a change at Koriyama Station. The city covers 382.99 km².

People living here: 117,376people
Area: 382.97km²
Households: 49,022households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,428yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 100 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-11-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。2005-11-01 に編入合併（河東町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —20 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.

Aizuwakamatsu City in Japan37.495°N 139.930°E

Territory of Aizuwakamatsu 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

28.9km

Aizumisato Town, Shimogo Town, Koriyama City, Bandai Town, Yugawa Village, Inawashiro Town, Ten-ei Village, Aizubange Town, Kitakata City

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

Aizuwakamatsu City isthis kind of town.

01The Nisshinkan observatory remains are the ruins of an observatory built as a facility for the astronomy studied at the Aizu clan school Nisshinkan; they are a city-designated cultural property and certified as Japanese Astronomical Heritage by the Astronomical Society of Japan
02Hachiyoji Temple holds 14,824 small ossuary pagodas and containers for part of the remains, a National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Amida Hall in its grounds is a National Important Cultural Property
03The former Shosoji Temple Sazae-do is a six-sided, three-story hall with a double spiral slope and a National Important Cultural Property, and the Akaiyachi bog plant community, a raised bog west of Lake Inawashiro, is a National Natural Monument

See the town as it is now.

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

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