08447 ／ かわちまち
Ibaraki Prefecture 稲敷郡13 villages, 100 names, on one base.
Tower for three righteous men01 ／ Lantern
The Konpira lantern at Tozo riverside was built in the Tenpo 10 era, stands 3.3 m high. At the busiest time in the last years of the shogunate, 30 to 40 barges came and went daily. In 1914, after river works, it moved with every household in the hamlet to inside the new embankment.
02 ／ Haiku stone
The man buried here served as headman of the river port village and studied under the same haiku master as Issa. According to the town's sign, Issa visited 22 times and stayed 56 nights. The stone's front is carved with a haiku, and the grave bears his death poem.
03 ／ Place names
The Shin-Tone River, cut in the Kanbun era, served as a drainage and irrigation channel and spurred the opening of new paddies. The town cites several place names as recalling settlers from other villages.
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 2008)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 has no railway station. The town's community bus takes 17 minutes from Ryugasaki Station to Kawachi Town Office. It runs Monday to Saturday and not on Sundays, holidays or over the New Year (town timetable revised 1 September 2025).
−10.2% since 2015
11,726 → 8,231
44.3km² of it habitable
2024
2.8 people per household
2020
4.9 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
6.9km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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