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08236 ／おみたまし

Omitama City

A haniwa-ringed mound, a double coffin.

Funazuka Kofun haniwa

01 ／ House

The stable on the east adds a second bend:a “two-bend” main house.

The Former Komatsu House was the main house of the Komatsu family, who served as village headmen, and is thought to date from the late 18th century. Among magariya, L-shaped farmhouses, its stable jutting out to the east forms a second bend, a rare “two-bend” style, and the prefecture notes that its floor plan has no known parallel. It was moved to a folk-house park in the city in 1996.

Prefecturally designated tangible cultural property (2019)
Stable on the east forms a second bend
Moved in 1996

02 ／ Float

A dance-stage float that toured the lake's north shorenow parades at Soga Shrine's Gion Festival.

The dance-stage float is a pulled float whose front section forms a stage, used by the neighborhood on duty. The city records that it toured many festivals on the north shore of Lake Kasumigaura but fell out of use as Ishioka-style floats and hooded lion figures became popular, and that today it appears only at Soga Shrine's Gion Festival. It was made in 1925.

City-designated tangible folk cultural property (2026)
Pulled float with a stage at the front
Made in 1925

03 ／ Tenpi

A statue of the goddess of safe voyages, said to be one ofthree divided spirits Mitsukuni had made, is in a small shrine in Ogawa.

Tenpi, generally called Mazu, has been worshipped as a guardian of safe sea voyages along China's coast. The city's newsletter records that Tokugawa Mitsukuni, hearing of the statue the Zen monk Toko Shinetsu brought over, is said to have had three divided spirits made and sent them to Ogawa, a river-shipping hub, Isohara in Kitaibaraki and Isohama in Oarai.

City-designated tangible cultural property (sculpture, 1978)
Three divided spirits, it is said
Yosegi (joined-wood) construction

Omitama 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 October 2018)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

98 minutes to Tokyo, 83 to Ueno.

about 50,000 people
90 min to a city centre

The city covers 144.74 km² of nearly flat land and touches Lake Kasumigaura in the south. Its railway station is Hatori on the JR Joban Line, and the fastest daily services without a change are local trains taking 83 minutes from Ueno and 98 from Tokyo. The City Hall main office is 15 to 20 minutes from Hatori Station by city loop bus.

People living here: 48,870people
Area: 144.74km²
Households: 18,407households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,024yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 21 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Omitama City in Japan36.239°N 140.353°E

to UenoJR Joban Line83min
to TokyoJR Ueno-Tokyo Line and Joban Line98min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（羽鳥駅・常磐線土浦・上野方面〈上り〉の平日・土曜休日。2026年10月版）と、各列車の停車駅一覧ページ (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Omitama 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

16.0km

Ishioka City, Ibaraki Town, Namegata City, Hokota City, Kasama City

Omitama City isthis kind of town.

01Funazuka Kofun in Kamitamari is a keyhole-shaped mound with a double box-type stone coffin, and rows of haniwa have been confirmed running all the way around the mound; the 39 haniwa unearthed there are a prefectural tangible cultural property
02The Former Komatsu House is a prefecturally designated magariya whose stable on the east forms a second bend, and Soga Shrine's Gion Festival parades a dance-stage float with a stage at its front, a city-designated tangible folk cultural property
03In a small shrine at the Tenseiji funeral hall in Ogawa stands a statue of Tenpi, whose divided spirits Mitsukuni is said to have had made in three, a city-designated tangible cultural property (sculpture)

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