Yoro Town

Unearthed stone Buddhas, set on a cone.

Thousand Stone Buddhas, Kashiwao

Photo by Alpsdake (CC0)

01 ／ Lion dance

The boatmen's travels were taken in,and the dance is thought to have grown to 48 items.

A three-stage lion dance in the line of Ise Kagura, long offered at the festival of Fukuchi Shrine; it has 48 items (the town). Kurigasa was a river-port town on the Makita River and, with Karasue and Funatsuke, was called the Noshu Three Ports in the Edo period. A prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 1970).

48 items
Noshu Three Ports
Prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

02 ／ Festival floats

Floats of a rare build, turning stage andupper structure while the wheels stay still.

At the annual festival of Atago Shrine, three floats are pulled: the Shojo float of the western district, the Rin Nasei float of the eastern and central districts, and the Kagura-jishi float of the lower-riverbank district (the town). The prefecture describes all three as a rare build in which the stage and upper structure turn while the wheels stay still. A prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 1980).

3 floats
Turns with the wheels still
Prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ Kikusui Spring

A spring handed down as the fine springthat Empress Gensho bathed in, inside Yoro Shrine.

Kikusui Spring lies in the precinct of Yoro Shrine and is handed down as the fine spring in which Empress Gensho bathed. In 717 (Reiki 3), the town writes, Empress Gensho saw a fine spring and changed the era name to Yoro; that spring is said to have been either Yoro Falls or Kikusui Spring. "Yoro Falls and Kikusui Spring" was chosen as one of the Hundred Famous Waters of Japan in 1985 (Showa 60).

717 (Reiki 3)
In the precinct of Yoro Shrine
Hundred Famous Waters, 1985

Living here

Three stations in town. 25 minutes from JR Ogaki Station on the Yoro Railway.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

The town advises travelling by the Yoro Railway to Yoro, Mino-Takada or Karasue Station, and gives 25 minutes from JR Ogaki Station and 40 minutes from Kintetsu Kuwana Station. By car, use Yoro IC or the Yoro Service Area smart IC. The gateway is Yoro Station.

People living here: 26,882people
Area: 72.29km²
Households: 9,405households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,693yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Yoro Town in Japan35.308°N 136.561°E

Territory of Yoro Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.9km

Gifu Prefecture: 大垣市, 海津市, 輪之内町, 垂井町
Mie Prefecture: いなべ市

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

Yoro Town isthis kind of town.

01The Thousand Stone Buddhas stand near the Kashiwao temple ruins. In 1897 villagers dug up more than a thousand stone Buddhas and set them on a conical platform 15 m across; the standing Kannon at the top bears an inscription dated Oei 9 (1402). The temple ruins are a Prefectural Historic Site
02The Kurigasa lion dance, long offered at the Fukuchi Shrine festival, is a prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Takada Festival's three floats are a prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. Town-designated historic sites include the Zobizan Kofun Cluster, a group of 70 tombs, and the Jogui site, where a stake set the standard height of embankments in a polder district
03Kikusui Spring lies in the precinct of Yoro Shrine and is handed down as the fine spring in which Empress Gensho bathed. The Site of Empress Gensho's Visit is a Prefectural Historic Site, and serves as the otabisho, the temporary resting site, for Yoro Shrine's grand festival

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yoro Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗