07362 ／ しもごうまち
Fukushima Prefecture 南会津郡Soft layers wore away; towers stand.
To-no-Hetsuri, tuff cliff01 ／ Post town
A guide published by the tourism association says Ouchi-juku served as a midday rest stop. A record from 1827 puts the party of the eighth Aizu lord at 625 people. The national description says thatched houses with gables to the street stand at nearly even intervals along a road about 450 m long.
02 ／ Old road
The national description says the Shimotsuke Road in Shimogo Town runs about 22 km, and about 10 km of it keeps its old form well. The tourism association's material says the teahouse ruins at Ouchi Pass show foundation stones for an early and a later building, and the milestone mounds stand as a pair on both sides of the road.
03 ／ Wind caves
The national description says that on a slope of angular rubble at Nakayama there are several areas that breathe out cold air in summer, where alpine plants form colonies unlike those nearby. The town's tourism site says the cold air stays between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius even in midsummer.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot May–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））
Living here
The town's tourism site directs rail travelers from Tokyo and Sendai to take the JR Ban-etsu West Line from Koriyama to Aizuwakamatsu, then the Aizu Railway to Aizu-Shimogo Station. The town introduces Yunokami-Onsen Station, with its thatched station building, as one chosen among the 100 Stations of Tohoku in 2002.
−9.2% since 2015
7,951 → 5,264
43.7km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
7.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
23.9km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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