03485 ／ ふだいむら
Iwate Prefecture 下閉伊郡A co-op's pillar became a lighthouse.
Rikuchu Kurosaki Lighthouse01 ／ Unotori Kagura
A yamabushi kagura handed down at Unotori Shrine, with 53 pieces in all. They include the prayer dance Yama no Kami, which wards off misfortune, and Ebisu-mai, with its lively give-and-take with the audience. It can be seen at the festival on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month and on tours from January to March.
02 ／ Meoto-sugi
These cedars stand along the approach from the worship hall to the main shrine of Unotori Shrine on Mt. Unetori. The village says they are over 500 years old and can be seen from the Pacific off Fudai. A prefectural list records them as a village natural monument designated on 1 October 1984.
03 ／ Kurosaki Battery
The Nanbu domain set up lookout stations along the coast from Kamaishi to Noheji to watch for foreign ships, and in the late Edo period built more than 30 batteries. One was built at Kurosaki in 1856 (Ansei 3), and a cannon monument now recalls that history.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The village says it takes about 2 hours 35 minutes from Morioka Station to Miyako on the JR Yamada Line, about 1 hour from Miyako to Fudai on the Sanriku Railway Rias Line, and about 35 minutes from Kuji (as of January 2025). The village has three stations: Fudai, Shirai-Kaigan and Horinai.
−11% since 2015
3,796 → 2,487
8.24km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
8.0 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
10.5km
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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