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07464 ／いずみざきむら

Fukushima Prefecture 西白河郡

Izumizaki Village

Behind a door, a red-painted rider.

Izumizaki Yokoana, painted tomb

Photo by 聖石大戦ぶぅぶぅ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Haniwa

The wrestler haniwa, hands raised high,shows a shiko stomp, the village explains.

Harayama Tomb No. 1 is a keyhole-shaped mound about 22 m long. The wrestler figure may look like a ring-entering pose, but the village explains it shows a shiko leg stomp. Haniwa of shield bearers, a koto player and dancers also came from the moat.

Haniwa from the tomb: prefectural Important Cultural Property (March 31, 2000)
Length about 22 m (estimated)
Mid-Kofun period, latter half of the 5th century

02 ／ Main hall

The summit hall on Karasutoge carries carvings ofthe Seven Lucky Gods and Twenty-four Paragons.

Karasutoge Inari Shrine stands on the summit of Karasutoge (486 m), the village's highest mountain. Its Edo-period main hall, the oldest of the current buildings, has the Seven Lucky Gods on its walls and carvings called the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety, with some pigment left. It is a village-designated building.

Village-designated building (June 22, 1976)
Karasutoge is 486 m high, per the village tourism page
Major restoration in 2009 by the shrine and the village office

03 ／ Weeping cherry

At Shokenji, a weeping cherry treelarge enough to cover the temple.

Weeping cherry in Izumizaki Village — Photo by Duff Figgy (CC BY-SA 3.0)

In the grounds of Shokenji, a Soto temple, stands a weeping cherry tree large enough to cover the temple. Its age is said to be 230 years. With a second temple's weeping cherry, it is a village natural monument, named among the village's representative old trees.

Village natural monument (January 24, 2007)
Age said to be about 230 years
The temple is said to have been founded in 1509

Izumizaki Village 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–July 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））

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Living here

From Shin-Shirakawa Station, about 11 minutes by the Tohoku Main Line.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The village's "Access" page (updated May 29, 2023) gives the trip by train as about 90 minutes from Tokyo Station to Shin-Shirakawa Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen, then about 11 minutes to Izumizaki Station on the Tohoku Main Line. Shin-Shirakawa Station is in neighboring Nishigo Village. The village overview (updated January 7, 2024) says it is relatively warm for Fukushima Prefecture despite being inland, with little snow. The area is 35.43 km².

People living here: 6,213people
Area: 35.43km²
Households: 2,089households
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 3 municipalities.

Izumizaki Village in Japan37.154°N 140.303°E

Territory of Izumizaki Village

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

8.0km

Shirakawa City, Yabuki Town, Nakajima Village

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

Izumizaki Village isthis kind of town.

01Izumizaki Yokoana is a decorated tomb and a national historic site. In a cave tomb cut into tuff, red pigment draws a rider, figures and more on the walls and ceiling, and the village says it was made about 1,400 years ago. It was designated a historic site on May 1, 1934
02Harayama Tomb No. 1 is a keyhole-shaped mound about 22 m long. Its haniwa, found fallen in the moat, include a wrestler, shield bearers, a koto player and dancers, and are a prefectural Important Cultural Property. The village explains the wrestler as a shiko stomp
03Karasutoge is the village's highest mountain (486 m), and the main hall of the shrine on its summit dates from the Edo period. A weeping cherry at Shokenji is a village natural monument. Izumizaki Station on the Tohoku Main Line is about 11 minutes from Shin-Shirakawa Station

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

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