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07213 ／だてし

Date City

Rich on silkworm eggs, with a tower.

Former Kameoka Home, rich farmer

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Rocky mountain

Atop a mountain of sheer tuff-breccia cliffs,many temple foundation stones remain.

Rocky mountain in Date City — Photo by Shannend29 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mount Ryozen rises 825 m. The city describes its sheer, dark-brown, rugged tuff-breccia rock faces. On the summit once stood Ryozen-ji Temple, said to have been founded by Jikaku Daishi, and many large foundation stones remain today. It is a national Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty.

825 m above sea level
National Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty (designated 1934)
Many large foundation stones on the summit

02 ／ Silkworm eggs

Tools from silkworm-egg making to silk reelingmake up a collection of 1,344 items.

In the early modern period the Date area was granted the title of "sanshu honba" (principal source of silkworm eggs) by the shogunate, and built its standing as a major producing region. It was also a leading area in sericulture techniques, including the invention of a thermometer made specifically for silkworms. These tools are a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

485 items for silkworm-egg production
490 for sericulture, 176 for silk reeling
Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 2019)

03 ／ Temple ruins

A foundation-stone building jutting over a pondis thought to have been a Buddhist hall.

The Miyawaki Haiji temple ruins are what remain of a temple founded in the first half of the 15th century and burned down around the middle of that century. Excavation confirmed two foundation-stone buildings arranged around a pond. The one jutting over the pond is thought to be a Buddhist hall, tiled all over with verandas on all four sides.

Founded in the first half of the 15th century
Two foundation-stone buildings around a pond
National Historic Site (designated 2014)

Date 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 October 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

From Oizumi Station, about 7 minutes on foot to City Hall.

about 60,000 people

The city's official access page gives the Abukuma Express from Fukushima Station to Oizumi Station at 20 minutes, then about 7 minutes on foot to the main office and Hobara general branch office. Date City was formed on January 1, 2006, by the merger of five towns: Date, Yanagawa, Hobara, Ryozen and Tsukidate.

People living here: 58,240people
Area: 265.12km²
Households: 21,158households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,600yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 41 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Date City in Japan37.819°N 140.563°E

Territory of Date 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

25.1km

Fukushima Prefecture: Fukushima City, Kawamata Town, Soma City, Kunimi Town, Koori Town, Iitate Village
Miyagi Prefecture: Marumori Town, Shiroishi City

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

Date City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Kameoka Home was built around 1904 in Koori Town by the Kameoka family, who were engaged in silkworm-egg production, and was moved to Hobara General Park in 1995. It is a national Important Cultural Property, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs describes a facade with a half-octagonal, tower-like projection at the center and an interior centered on Japanese-style rooms
02Mount Ryozen, 825 m high, is a national Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty with sheer tuff-breccia rock faces. Many large foundation stones remain on the summit from Ryozen-ji Temple, said to have been founded by Jikaku Daishi
03The 1,344 tools for silkworm-egg production, sericulture and silk reeling in the Date area are a national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The Miyawaki Haiji temple ruins in Ryozen (a national Historic Site) are those of a temple whose building jutting over a pond is thought to be a Buddhist hall

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Date City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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