Hodatsu-shimizu Town

Suemori: the battle said to found Kaga.

Suemori Castle ruins

Photo by ja:user:Akimoto (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Sanden-Kanaya Kofun

A house-shaped stone coffinrests deep inside the chamber.

A round tomb mound, thought to date from the late 6th century, holds a 10 m stone passage chamber, one of the longest in the Hokuriku region. At its end sits a "house-shaped" stone coffin (家形石棺) shaped like a roof with chigi finials. Weapons, horse gear and Sue ware were found inside. A switch outside lights the chamber for ten minutes.

Round tomb, thought built in the late 6th century
Stone chamber, 10 m long
National Historic Site

02 ／ Odamaki

A rice cake named for bundledramie thread is still made today.

The former town of Shio once grew ramie (苧麻, chōma) for thread, and textile mills lined the Konoura River. A rice cake called odamaki, said to be named for "odamaki," a bundle of thread, is still hand-made piece by piece today by the confectioner Taniguchi Seika. Its skin is lined to look like thread.

Made from ramie (chōma) thread
Said to be named for the "odamaki" bundle shape
Hand-made piece by piece by Taniguchi Seika

03 ／ The Mount Hodatsu gold mine

A gold mine once backed the Kaga domain;a tunnel mouth remains on the slope.

Mount Hodatsu, 637 m high, is recorded by the Kaga domain as opening a gold mine in 1584. For about half a century, until a major collapse in 1628, it supplied gold to the domain; some years yielded about 3,500 ōban coins worth. The hillside spot Nakao-daira still shows a tunnel mouth, and the trail Kobushi-no-Michi still runs to the summit.

1584: gold mine opened, per Kaga domain records
Mined until a major collapse in 1628
Trail Kobushi-no-Michi open April 23 to November 23

Living here

Rivers and sea ring the town; paddies fill its fan-shaped plain.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

Hills of Mount Hodatsu lie to the east, a fan formed by five rivers including the Konoura around the center, and dunes along the Sea of Japan to the west. The town was formed in 2005 by the merger of Shio and Oshimizu. It covers 111.51 km2, with rice paddies on about 30% of the land. Three JR Nanao Line stations, Menden, Hodatsu and Shikinami, run north to south.

People living here: 12,121people
Area: 111.51km²
Households: 4,428households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Hodatsu-shimizu Town in Japan36.863°N 136.798°E

Territory of Hodatsu-shimizu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.0km

Ishikawa Prefecture: 羽咋市, かほく市, 津幡町
Toyama Prefecture: 氷見市, 高岡市

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

Hodatsu-shimizu Town isthis kind of town.

01Suemori Castle, on Mount Suemori, was the site of the 1584 Battle of Suemori. Reinforced by Maeda Toshiie, it held off a siege, and is said to have founded the Kaga domain's million-koku (百万石) wealth.
02Sanden-Kanaya Kofun, a round tomb from the late 6th century, holds a 10 m stone chamber with a house-shaped stone coffin. It is a National Historic Site.
03Odamaki, a rice cake tied to the former town of Shio's textile trade, is still made, and Mount Hodatsu still shows the traces of a gold mine that once backed the Kaga domain.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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