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07541 ／ひろのまち

Fukushima Prefecture 双葉郡

Hirono Town

Drums and flutes seem to name the rite.

Shore purification rite, Tantan Peropero

Photo by Altomarina (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ School song

"Through the tunnel's dark to Hirono Plain."A line from a song loved since the Meiji era.

The town says the school song "Kisha" (The Train) is said to have been written about the scenery between Hisanohama in Iwaki and Hirono when the Joban Line opened. A monument to the song was erected in Hirono Station in 1982.

Monument erected in 1982
Scenery between Hisanohama and Hirono
Old Tozenji Tunnel, brick, built around 1898

02 ／ Children's song

A doctor on a house call is said to haveturned a village of dragonfly-chasing children into a song.

The town says that around 1948 the doctor Nukaga Seishi, visiting Hokidaira in Kamiasamigawa, saw children playing with dragonflies and wrote "Tombo no Megane." Hokidaira is a hamlet at the foot of Mount Gosha.

Written around 1948
Music by Hirai Kozaburo
Monument in Tsukijigaoka Park

03 ／ Fossils

A single fossil tooth found at Sakurazawaled to fossils of several dinosaurs.

The town board of education says a single tooth fossil was found in Sakurazawa in 1986, and excavation showed fossils of several herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs. Crocodilians and ammonites were found with them.

Found in Sakurazawa in 1986
Herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs
Crocodilians and ammonites too

Hirono 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 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

159 minutes from Tokyo on the Limited Express Hitachi.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

Hirono Station on the Joban Line is in the town, and the Limited Express Hitachi is the through service without a change. In the JR East timetable (November 2026 issue), the fastest daily train takes 159 minutes from Tokyo Station and 152 minutes from Ueno Station. The town's "about 3 hours 20 minutes" is a rough guide, so the timetable value is used.

People living here: 5,412people
Area: 58.69km²
Households: 2,899households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Hirono Town in Japan37.215°N 140.994°E

to TokyoLtd. exp. Hitachi159min
to UenoLtd. exp. Hitachi152min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表 2611版（2026年11月号。https://timetables.jreast.co.jp/2611/）。東京駅 tt1039 の上野東京ライン（tt17）・上野駅 tt0204 の常磐線（tt07）の下りの列車ページを `jr_count.py`（平日と土休日の両方に同じ分数で載る列車を毎日運転とみなす）で数え、広野駅の『着』で数えた（2026-10-28） (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Hirono 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

7.2km

Iwaki City, Naraha Town

Hirono Town isthis kind of town.

01The shore purification rite is a festival in which the portable shrines of two local shrines meet at a resting site in Kamiasamigawa and take a seawater purification at the mouth of the Asamigawa River; locally it is called "Tantan Peropero," the town says
02The school song "Kisha" is said to describe the scenery between Hisanohama in Iwaki and Hirono, and a monument was erected in Hirono Station in 1982
03The town says "Tombo no Megane" was born on a house call to Hokiodaira, and a tooth fossil found in Sakurazawa in 1986 led to fossils of several dinosaurs

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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