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07505 ／ふるどのまち

Fukushima Prefecture 石川郡

Furudono Town

Look up at a cherry about 400 years old.

Large mountain cherry, Furudono

Photo by MAKIKO OMOKAWA (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Shrine

The town is named for the place of Furudono Hachiman Shrine.Its yabusame and kasagake rites rotate among thirteen villages.

The town says its name was taken from Furudono, the site of its guardian shrine, when two former villages merged. The shrine's own history says a local lord made kasagake and yabusame archery part of the festival rites. The prefecture designates it an important intangible folk cultural property.

Prefectural important intangible folk cultural property
Designated March 31, 1995
Rotation among thirteen villages

02 ／ Monument

A monument telling the origins of the tobacco Matsukawa leafwas erected on October 5, 1933.

The town says the monument was erected on October 5, 1933 to tell the origins of Matsukawa leaf. The town adds that the leaf was said to light easily, burn long and smell good, and its fame spread across the prefecture and even to Edo.

Erected October 5, 1933
Listed under the town's historic sites
Easy to light, long burning, fragrant

03 ／ Amida hall

An Amida hall said to date from the Sho-hei erawas a pyramidal-roofed hall three bays on a side.

The town says the date of construction is unclear but that it is said to have been built in the Sho-hei era, around 1370. At its founding it was a thatched hall in the sanken-shimen plan with a pyramidal hogyo-zukuri roof, using thick zelkova round pillars. Eleven ridge tablets span 1555 to 1818.

Prefectural important cultural property (building)
Designated September 4, 1956
Eleven ridge tablets attached

Furudono 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–September 2022)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

A town in the Abukuma Mountains, 300 to 500 m up.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town's guide lists the rail route as the Tohoku Shinkansen, then Koriyama to Ishikawa on the Suigun Line. The town lies 300 to 500 m up in the Abukuma Mountains, and the Samegawa River, flowing to the Pacific from Iwaki, crosses it east to west with the Ohira River joining it.

People living here: 4,825people
Area: 163.29km²
Households: 1,610households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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 4 municipalities.

Furudono Town in Japan37.089°N 140.556°E

Territory of Furudono 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

19.5km

Iwaki City, Samegawa Village, Ishikawa Town, Hirata Village

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

Furudono Town isthis kind of town.

01The large mountain cherry in the Okuda district is introduced by the town as about 400 years old and 20 m tall, and is a prefectural natural monument
02Furudono Hachiman Shrine's yabusame and kasagake are a prefectural important intangible folk cultural property, and the town says its name comes from the shrine's place name
03The Matsukawa leaf monument dates from 1933, and a temple Amida hall in the town, said to date from the Sho-hei era, is a prefectural important cultural property

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Furudono Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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