Uchinada Town

A bridge now joins a town split in two.

Sunset Bridge Uchinada

Photo by Hirorinmasa (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Awagasaki Amusement Park

In 1925, on Uchinada's dunes,an amusement park called "Hokuriku's Takarazuka" opened.

Timber merchant Kataro Hirasawa (平澤嘉太郎) opened Awagasaki Amusement Park (粟ヶ崎遊園) on Uchinada's sand dunes in July 1925. On grounds of about 200,000 square meters, an in-house girls' operetta troupe performed in a 500-seat theater, and the park became known as "Hokuriku's Takarazuka" (北陸の宝塚). A 1929 fire burned the main theater, but it reopened, and the park ran for about 20 years until it closed in 1944.

July 19, 1925: opened (Taisho 14)
Grounds: ~200,000 sqm, 500-seat theater
1944: closed after ~20 years

02 ／ The Uchinada Struggle

On the dunes,Japan's first postwar protest against a base.

In 1952, the U.S. military, citing the Korean War, requested Uchinada's dunes as an artillery test range. Villagers rose in protest, and by June 1953 they had built sit-in huts at 16 spots inside the range. That September they accepted conditional, time-limited use, and by March 1957 the dunes fell quiet again.

1952: U.S. military requests a test range
June 1953: sit-in huts at 16 spots
March 30, 1957: dunes returned to the prefecture

03 ／ Uchinada Mochi

Peanut mochi from Nishiaraiwas launched as "Uchinada Mochi."

In Uchinada's Nishiarai district (西荒屋地区), peanut mochi made with dune-grown peanuts has long been a children's snack. A local revitalization group, the Nishiarai Farming Promotion Association (西荒屋営農促進会), now sells it as "Uchinada Mochi" (内灘餅), using rice and peanuts grown entirely in Uchinada, each piece made by hand.

Made with town-grown rice and dune-grown peanuts
Made by the Nishiarai Farming Promotion Association
One raw piece (75g): 150 yen

Living here

Rakkyo and peanuts still grow in the dune fields.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

In Uchinada's dune fields, the local group Oh! C Machi Uchinada (おいCまち内灘) hand-digs rakkyo it calls "Pearl of the Dunes" (砂丘の真珠). Together with Nishiarai's peanuts, the dune fields still support daily life in Uchinada.

People living here: 26,574people
Area: 20.33km²
Households: 10,802households
Rent (average for rentals): 50,305yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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 3 municipalities.

Uchinada Town in Japan36.654°N 136.645°E

Territory of Uchinada Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.4km

金沢市, かほく市, 津幡町

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

Uchinada Town isthis kind of town.

01Uchinada is a dune town split north and south by the Kahoku-gata floodway. The Sunset Bridge Uchinada (サンセットブリッジ内灘), a cable-stayed bridge opened in 2001, now joins the divided town.
02From the Taisho into the Showa era, the dunes held Awagasaki Amusement Park (粟ヶ崎遊園), known as "Hokuriku's Takarazuka." In the 1950s, the dunes were also the stage of the Uchinada Struggle (内灘闘争), over accepting a U.S. military test range.
03Peanut mochi from Nishiarai, sold as "Uchinada Mochi" (内灘餅), and dune-grown rakkyo called "Pearl of the Dunes" (砂丘の真珠) still come from the dune fields, and every May the town fills with the World Kite Festival (世界の凧の祭典).

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Uchinada Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗