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Tamura City

Straw figures bar the way, arms wide.

Oningyosama, guardian figures

01 ／ Theater architecture

A theater at a village crossroads wascompleted in a European style in 1926.

The city describes the former Ogoe Amusement Hall, completed in May 1926, as a European-style building. A stage and box seats were built inside, and plays and films were shown. The city records the design as by Kon Wajiro, and it became a nationally registered tangible cultural property in 2007.

Completed May 1926
Two-story wooden building
Registered national tangible cultural property, July 31, 2007

02 ／ Limestone cave

Irimizu Limestone Cave, a national natural monument,spans Sugaya in Takine and Waseda in Tokiwa.

The city records that the first cave was found in 1927 and that it was designated a national natural monument in 1934. A cave formed as groundwater eroded limestone, it lies where well-developed karst terrain can be seen at Komagahana, Nakahira and Sendaihira in Takine.

National natural monument, Dec. 28, 1934
First cave found in 1927
Karst at Komagahana, Nakahira, Sendaihira

03 ／ Sangaku tablets

Tablets said to be hung in thanks for solved problems:the city designates 10 as folk cultural property.

Sangaku are said to have been dedicated in the Edo period to thank the gods for solving a math problem. Eight of the 10 tablets the city designates were dedicated by pupils of one mathematician born in Funehiki. His study stands on private land and visits need advance inquiry.

10 tablets designated by the city
8 dedicated by one mathematician's pupils
103 of 975 in Japan are in Fukushima (1997 survey)

Tamura 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

From Funehiki Station on the Ban'etsu East Line, the city hall is a five-minute walk.

about 40,000 people

The city has six stations on the Ban'etsu East Line. For visitors by train, the city says the main city hall is a five-minute walk from Funehiki Station.

People living here: 35,169people
Area: 458.33km²
Households: 12,159households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,923yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 31 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 9 municipalities.

Tamura City in Japan37.441°N 140.576°E

Territory of Tamura 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

29.2km

Miharu Town, Kawauchi Village, Katsurao Village, Ono Town, Nihonmatsu City, Iwaki City, Namie Town, Koriyama City, Okuma Town

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

Tamura City isthis kind of town.

01In Funehiki, straw figures about 2.5 to 4 m tall stand at three sites, and the prefecture designates the making of Oningyosama along the Iwaki Highway as an important intangible folk cultural property
02The former Ogoe Amusement Hall, a theater building completed in 1926, is recorded by the city as designed by Kon Wajiro and became a nationally registered cultural property in 2007
03Irimizu Limestone Cave was designated a national natural monument in 1934, and 8 of the city's 10 designated sangaku were dedicated by pupils of one mathematician

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tamura City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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