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07408 ／いなわしろまち

Fukushima Prefecture 耶麻郡

Inawashiro Town

A hilltop house named for a Li Bai line.

Tenkyokaku

Photo by 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Boulder

A mass of rock 9.39 m long and just over 3.03 m highlies about 5 km in a straight line from the top of Mt. Bandai.

Boulder in Inawashiro Town — Photo by Qwert1234 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The national natural monument Mine no Oishi is a mass of pyroxene andesite, 9.39 m long, 6.06 m wide and just over 3.03 m high. The designation text gives its straight-line distance from the top of Mt. Bandai as about 5 km. It was designated in 1941 (Showa 16).

9.39 m long, 6.06 m wide, just over 3.03 m high
About 5 km in a straight line from the mountain top (designation text)
National Natural Monument (designated 1941)

02 ／ Shrine and tomb

Up the path on the east side of the shrinelies a tomb called the Okunoin.

Hanitsu Shrine enshrines Hoshina Masayuki, the first lord of the Aizu domain. According to a Fukushima Prefecture tourism page, Masayuki asked to be enshrined here after his death, and the shrine was founded in Enpo 3 (1675). The tomb at the Okunoin, together with the shrine, is a national historic site as the Tombs of the Aizu Matsudaira Lords.

Founded in Enpo 3 (1675)
The Okunoin is the tomb of Hoshina Masayuki
Tombs of the Aizu Matsudaira Lords: national historic site (designated 1987)

03 ／ Sangaku

A sangaku math tablet offered by a wasan mathematicianin the early Meiji era is at the Tenmangu shrine.

The Tenmangu shrine on the north shore of Lake Inawashiro has a sangaku, a mathematical tablet that a wasan mathematician offered in the early Meiji period. The Inawashiro Tourist Association says it poses problems in algebra, continued fractions, finite-difference series and integers, and that its colored display and solutions are valuable both mathematically and artistically.

Offered in the early Meiji period by a wasan mathematician
Problems in algebra, continued fractions, finite-difference series and integers
Designated cultural property of Inawashiro Town (craft)

Inawashiro 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 June 2023)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 40 minutes from Koriyama on the Banetsu West Line.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town's access page, updated on February 20, 2026, says it takes about 1 hour 30 minutes from Tokyo Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen, then about 40 minutes on the Banetsu West Line from Koriyama Station to Inawashiro Station. The town lies at the northeastern end of the Aizu region, surrounded by Mt. Bandai and Lake Inawashiro.

People living here: 13,552people
Area: 394.85km²
Households: 4,718households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Inawashiro Town in Japan37.558°N 140.105°E

Territory of Inawashiro 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

34.2km

Fukushima Prefecture: Koriyama City, Kitashiobara Village, Fukushima City, Bandai Town, Aizuwakamatsu City, Nihonmatsu City
Yamagata Prefecture: Yonezawa City

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

Inawashiro Town isthis kind of town.

01Tenkyokaku is a Western-style house in the Renaissance style that an imperial prince built on a hilltop overlooking Lake Inawashiro and completed in August 1908 (Meiji 41); its main building, annex and front gate are national Important Cultural Properties
02Mine no Oishi is a mass of pyroxene andesite and a national natural monument, and Hanitsu Shrine enshrines Hoshina Masayuki and, with the tomb at its Okunoin, is a national historic site as the Tombs of the Aizu Matsudaira Lords
03The town has the former Takamatsunomiya Okinajima Villa, a national Important Cultural Property, and the Tenmangu shrine has a sangaku offered by a wasan mathematician in the early Meiji period, a designated cultural property of the town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Inawashiro Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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