Fudoin Pagoda, Itabashi, Tsukubamirai City
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08235 ／ つくばみらいし

Ibaraki Prefecture

Tsukubamirai City

Repairs found many ink inscriptions.

Fudoin Pagoda, Itabashi

Photo by 小石川人晃 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Grave

Built before his Karafuto expedition,a grave only 53 cm high.

Grave in Tsukubamirai City
Photo by 三人日 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Behind a memorial stele raised in 1910 in the temple grounds stands the prefecturally designated historic site of Mamiya Rinzo's grave. The city board of education records that he built it, prepared for death, before leaving for the Karafuto expedition: a small commoner's grave 53 cm high. His birthplace is also a prefectural historic site, moved and restored on its present ground in 1971.

  • Prefectural historic site
  • 53 cm high
  • Stele raised in 1910

02 ／ Performing art

Puppets worked on ropesstretched through the air.

Tsunabi joins puppets with set-piece fireworks: ropes stretched through the air are worked so that puppets move to the music. Its other names are “Sanbon-tsuna” and “mechanical puppet fireworks.” Two schools, Obari Matsushita and Takaoka, survive in the city, and in 1976 it was designated a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

  • Obari Matsushita and Takaoka schools
  • Also called “Sanbon-tsuna”
  • National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (1976)

03 ／ Weir

A weir for new rice fields movedfrom Yamada Marsh downstream.

Weir in Tsukubamirai City
Photo by Masao (CC BY-SA 2.5)

The city board of education records that new-field development began in 1624 and produced fine paddies known as “Yahara 30,000 koku.” A weir built at Yamada Marsh to supply their irrigation water was later moved downstream to the Fukuoka district and became the Fukuoka Weir, which, it says, still plays an important part in the city's farming.

  • Yahara 30,000 koku
  • New fields from 1624
  • Yamada Marsh to Fukuoka

Tsukubamirai City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

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））

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Living here

41 minutes to Akihabara, 30 to Kita-Senju.

  • about 50,000 people

The city covers 79.16 km², with paddy fields along the Kokai River. Its gateway is Miraidaira Station, where Tsukuba Express Semi-rapid trains run without a change: 41 minutes to Akihabara and 30 to Kita-Senju. The city's overview gives 40 minutes to Akihabara from the line's opening, but the current timetable's fastest is 41.

People living here
49,872people
2010

+1.5% since 2015

44,461 → 49,872

Area
79.16km²

68.54km² of it habitable

2024

Households
19,971households

2.5 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
60,443yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
0 hospitals ／ 25 clinics

5.0 per 10,000 people

2023

Area79.16km²Habitable land68.54km² ／ 87%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—17 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Tsukubamirai City in Japan35.963°N 140.037°E
OsakaTsukubamirai City
Miraidaira Station
みらい平駅2008
  • to Kita-SenjuTsukuba Express30min
  • to AkihabaraTsukuba Express41min

Travel times follow 首都圏新都市鉄道（つくばエクスプレス）公式の時刻・運賃検索（NAVITIME 提供の列車別時刻表 transfer-train.navitime.biz/tx。API /api/tx/timetable/<駅>/1/<向き>?target=weekday|holiday）。秋葉原駅（station=3494）・北千住駅（8355）とみらい平駅（9440）の下り（つくば方面）の発着時刻を、同じ列車番号で突き合わせて分数を出した（2026-10-22 取得） (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Tsukubamirai 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)

Tsukubamirai City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The Fudoin three-story pagoda is a prefecturally designated structure, one of few pagodas built in the early modern period in the prefecture; a guild of master shrine carpenters began work on it in the An'ei era (1772–1780), and many ink inscriptions were found in its timbers during the dismantling repair of 1993–1995
  2. 02Mamiya Rinzo's grave is a prefectural historic site that, the city board of education records, he built before leaving for the Karafuto expedition, prepared for death. Tsunabi is a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property with two schools in the city
  3. 03Ina Shrine was founded in 1941 to enshrine the founder of Yahara development, and the city board of education's guide records how a weir at Yamada Marsh became the Fukuoka Weir downstream

See the town as it is now.

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

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