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08227 ／ちくせいし

Chikusei City

Inner and Outer Shrines stand together.

Naige Daijingu, Oguri

01 ／ Temple ruins

Pagodas placed east and west of the main hall:the ruins of a Nara-period temple.

Niihari Haiji Ruins are the remains of a temple built in Niihari District of Hitachi Province in the Nara period, and a national historic site. Excavation from 1939 showed that the east pagoda, main hall and west pagoda stand in a straight line. The east pagoda's base holds a pagoda foundation stone, and inscribed roof tiles have been found. Nearby, the Niihari District office ruins are also a national historic site.

National historic site, 1942
East pagoda, main hall, west pagoda in a line
Excavated from 1939

02 ／ Modern architecture

A mortar-walled Western-style houseand an earthen-walled shop-storehouse stand side by side.

The Arakawa residence stands along National Route 50 in Tamachi, Chikusei, with a storehouse-style shop and a Western-style house, and is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The main house, built in 1933, is an Art Deco Western-style building whose pyramidal roof the city says evokes the imperial-crown style. The shop, built in 1907, is a two-story earthen-walled building. Pine-and-crane plaster reliefs decorate the wall of the inner storehouse.

Registered 1999, five buildings
Main house 1933, shop 1907
Pine-and-crane plaster reliefs on the inner storehouse

03 ／ Birthplace

A mid-Edo-period reception room remainsas the room where Hazan was born.

The Birthplace of Itaya Hazan is a prefectural historic site. A single-story wooden house with a tiled roof, its two reception rooms date from the mid-Edo period, and the city says the surviving room is the one where Hazan was born. The Itaya family were an old family of soy sauce brewers on Tamachi Street, and the house was moved in 1937 when a town road opened. At the memorial museum, a round kiln used at his Tabata studio has been re-erected.

Prefectural historic site, 1965
Two rooms from the mid-Edo period
Kiln from the Tabata studio re-erected

Chikusei 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 May 2021)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

The Kinu and Kokai rivers run north to south.

about 100,000 people

The city describes itself as lying in western Ibaraki Prefecture, about 70 km north of Tokyo, a generally flat, fertile rural area crossed north to south by the Kinu and Kokai rivers, among others. It was formed in March 2005 by the merger of Shimodate City and the towns of Sekijo, Akeno and Kyowa. The JR Mito Line runs east to west, and the Kanto Railway Joso Line extends south from Shimodate Station.

People living here: 100,753people
Area: 205.3km²
Households: 37,491households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,878yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 79 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —21 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Chikusei City in Japan36.307°N 139.983°E

Territory of Chikusei 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

20.0km

Ibaraki Prefecture: Shimotsuma City, Sakuragawa City, Yuki City, Tsukuba City, Yachiyo Town
Tochigi Prefecture: Moka City, Oyama City

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

Chikusei City isthis kind of town.

01At Naige Daijingu in Oguri, the main halls of the Inner and Outer Shrines stand side by side. The main halls date from 1679 and the Gosenden from 1574, and all three buildings are Important Cultural Properties. The city says they convey the later shrine layout of the Shinmei shrines founded on Ise Shrine's estates nationwide
02Niihari Haiji Ruins, a Nara-period temple site where the east pagoda, main hall and west pagoda stand in a line, is a national historic site. In Tamachi stands the Arakawa residence, a 1933 Western-style house beside a 1907 shop-storehouse, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property
03The Birthplace of Itaya Hazan is a prefectural historic site, with the room said to be where he was born. The city also has Seki Castle Ruins, a national historic site with earthworks and moats, and the Ozakata site, which the city says first revealed a Middle Yayoi jar burial in eastern Japan

See the town as it is now.

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

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