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07545 ／おおくままち

Fukushima Prefecture 双葉郡

Okuma Town

Lion-clad children danced at the shrine.

Kumagawa Shishimai Dance

Photo by Mister0124 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Post town

A post town was built up as thesouthernmost post town of the Soma Nakamura domain.

The town's cultural property plan says the post town was developed as the southernmost post town of the Soma Nakamura domain and became a hub of traffic. It also notes that many old documents of the Nakano family, who oversaw goods and people there, survive. It describes a milestone site as a pair of mounds, a town-designated historic site.

Southernmost post town of the Soma Nakamura domain
Nakano family documents
Milestone mounds: town-designated site (April 1, 1973)

02 ／ Residences

Residences keeping a retainer's layout:the Ishida and Watanabe houses are nationally registered.

The town's plan describes the Ishida and Watanabe houses in a district of the town as buildings built between the late Edo and early Meiji periods that keep the layout of the residence of a retainer of the domain. Four Ishida buildings were registered in 2019 and five Watanabe buildings in 2021.

9 nationally registered tangible cultural properties
Ishida: December 5, 2019
Watanabe: February 4, 2021

03 ／ Place name

The old record names Kuma no Mura,thought to lie around the Kuma district.

The town's plan says the Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki records Kuma no Mura as the northern end of the Taka Kuni no Miyatsuko territory, and that it is thought to correspond to the area around today's Kuma district. One theory places it around the old post town.

Kuma no Mura
Northern end of the Taka territory
Thought to be around the Kuma district

Okuma 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

181 minutes from Tokyo by Limited Express Hitachi.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

The town's only railway station is Ono Station on the Joban Line. In the JR East timetable (2611 edition), the fastest daily Limited Express Hitachi takes 181 minutes from Tokyo Station to Ono Station and 174 minutes from Ueno Station. The town says the town office is about 4.5 km from the station.

People living here: 847people
Area: 78.71km²
Households: 800households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —0 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Okuma Town in Japan37.382°N 140.958°E

to TokyoLtd. exp. Hitachi181min
to UenoLtd. exp. Hitachi174min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表 2611版（東京駅 tt17 上野東京ライン・常磐線、上野駅 tt0204 の07 常磐線快速）の列車ページから、東京・上野の発→大野の着を数えた（`$SP/fukushima-prep/jr/trains-1039.json`・`trains-0204.json` の列車ごとの停車時刻を数え直し、運転日注意の無い毎日運転の便だけ） (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Okuma 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

6.8km

Futaba Town, Tomioka Town, Kawauchi Village, Namie Town, Tamura City

Okuma Town isthis kind of town.

01Kumagawa Children's Shishimai Dance is a town-designated folk performing art held at Suwa Shrine in the Kumagawa district every August, said to have begun as a prayer offered at the shrine in a great famine of the late Edo period
02A post town was the southernmost of the Soma Nakamura domain, and the town's plan describes a milestone site as a pair of mounds
03The Ishida and Watanabe houses in a district of the town keep a retainer's layout as nationally registered properties, and Kuma no Mura, the old name behind the town's name, is thought to lie around the Kuma district

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Okuma Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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