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07214 ／もとみやし

Motomiya City

The city designates 25 memorial towers.

Kamakura memorial towers

01 ／ Incised carvings

On boulders and crags across the mountain,over 800 figures are incised, from Kannon to bodhisattvas.

Mount Iwatsunosan, 337 m high, lies on the border with Nihonmatsu. Kannon of the Saigoku pilgrimage, bodhisattvas and other figures are incised on boulders and crags of granite, and Gankakuji's website explains they were moved from western Japan and carved in the Edo period. The whole mountain is a prefecturally designated place of scenic beauty and natural monument.

Prefectural scenic beauty and natural monument, 1955
337 m high
808 carvings on the rock

02 ／ Maple

Beside a Fudo hall, a mapleabout 250 years old stands.

This maple stands beside a Fudo hall in Motomiya City and is about 250 years old. The city designated it a natural monument on March 28, 1996. In the same neighborhood, the city has designated three memorial towers of the Fudo hall.

City natural monument, 1996
About 250 years old
Beside a Fudo hall

03 ／ Burial mound

A round mound with a projecting platform (38 m)was built around the late 5th century.

This burial mound in Motomiya is a round mound with a projecting platform, built around the late 5th century. The city says many burial mounds once stood nearby. The mound is a city historic site, and the finds from it are a prefectural important cultural property.

Round mound with projecting platform (38 m)
Built around the late 5th century
City historic site, 1985

Motomiya 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 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

The JR Tohoku Line runs north to south through the city's center.

about 30,000 people

The city's access page lists two stations on the JR Tohoku Line, Gohyakugawa and Motomiya, and a Fukushima Kotsu bus linking Koriyama Station and Motomiya Station. The city covers 88.02 km2 and was formed in 2007 by the merger of Motomiya Town and Shirasawa Village.

People living here: 30,236people
Area: 88.02km²
Households: 10,571households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,009yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Motomiya City in Japan37.513°N 140.394°E

Territory of Motomiya 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

9.7km

Koriyama City, Nihonmatsu City, Otama Village, Miharu Town

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

Motomiya City isthis kind of town.

01Among the city's designated cultural properties, 25 memorial towers are archaeological materials; the city's list gives a Kamakura-period date for 19, a Nanbokucho-period date for 3, and describes 3 as relief Amida triads
02Mount Iwatsunosan, 337 m high on the border with Nihonmatsu, has over 800 incised figures on its boulders and crags according to the city, and the whole mountain is a prefectural place of scenic beauty and natural monument
03The maple beside a Fudo hall is a city natural monument about 250 years old, and the round burial mound with a projecting platform dates from around the late 5th century; the city says 331 sericulture tools of Shirasawa are a nationally registered folk cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Motomiya City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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