07210 ／ にほんまつし
Fukushima PrefectureA retainers' warning in 16 characters.
Kaisekimei, a 16-character motto01 ／ Giant cedar
The city's cultural property page gives the tree as 1,000 years old, 50 m tall and 12.8 m around the trunk. It says the widely spread branches give the tree the dignity of a long life, and lists it as a national natural monument (1943) and a Fukushima Prefecture Green Cultural Property (1983).
02 ／ Festival
The Agency for Cultural Affairs database describes a pilgrimage in which people from nine Kohata districts carry great banners in procession to Okitsushima Shrine and Hayama Shrine. The city says about a hundred banners, including five-panel banners in five colors, move along mountain roads toward Mount Kohata.
03 ／ Washi
The city describes one of its districts as a producer of handmade paper with more than a thousand years of history. It adds that "mayumigami," paper loved by Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, is said to have been made here. The paper is a prefectural Important Intangible Cultural Property (craft technique), carried on by a preservation society.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
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））
Living here
The city's climate page says the Adatara range rises to the west and the Abukuma hills to the east, with the Abukuma River through the middle, in a shape about 35 km east to west and 17 km north to south. The city's station is on the JR Tohoku Main Line, and the city directs visitors to take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Koriyama Station and change to the Tohoku Main Line.
−7.9% since 2015
59,871 → 53,557
190.36km² of it habitable
2024
2.8 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.7 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-12-01 に新設合併（安達町・岩代町・東和町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
17.0km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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