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03214 ／はちまんたいし

Hachimantai City

Lava bumps called “tiger form” and more.

Yakehashiri lava, “tiger form”

01 ／ Tayama Calendar

A calendar recorded in pictures and symbolsof farm tools and zodiac animals was made in Tayama Village.

This picture calendar was made in Tayama Village in the Nanbu domain in the Edo period. It combines pictures of farm tools, household items and the twelve zodiac animals, with plain wooden movable type. Together with Morioka's picture calendars it is called the Nanbu picture calendars; the Kaei 2 Tayama calendar and 85 wooden type blocks are a prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

Dates back to 1783
85 wooden type blocks
Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property

02 ／ Fudo Falls

Beside the three-tiered falls,a rock face once held an old shrine.

The falls lie in Sakuramatsu Park in Takahata and drop in three tiers. According to the city tourism association, the neighbouring rock face once held an old shrine, and a ridgepole tablet of 1744, a temple gong of 1771 and a stone lantern of 1802 remain.

Three-tiered falls
Designated by the city as a Place of Scenic Beauty
Ridgepole tablet of 1744

03 ／ Natsugoriyama Wind Vent

Columnar-joint rubble forms a path for cold air,and a protection forest conserves its wind-vent plants.

It lies on Mount Tengumori in the Ou Mountains. Rubble from quartz trachyte columnar joints has piled up and become a passage for cold air, forming a wind vent. Rare species include Athyrium brevifrons, Chrysosplenium kamtschaticum and Ribes japonicum, and the Tohoku Regional Forest Office maintains it as a protection forest.

Protection forest, 6.30 ha
Established March 1999
Prefectural Natural Monument

Hachimantai 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 September–October 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））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Three river systems, and water that flows to both the Pacific and the Sea of Japan.

about 20,000 people

The city lies about 34 km north-west of Morioka, about 25 km east to west and about 45 km north to south, with an area of 862.30 square kilometres. The south-east belongs to the Kitakami River system; from the centre to the north-east the Appi River flows via the Mabuchi River to the Pacific, and in the north-west the Yoneshiro River flows to the Sea of Japan. The present city was formed in 2005 by the merger of the towns of Nishine and Ashiro and the village of Matsuo.

People living here: 24,023people
Area: 862.3km²
Households: 9,152households
Rent (average for rentals): 31,542yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 14 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Hachimantai City in Japan39.956°N 141.072°E

Territory of Hachimantai City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

45.3km

Iwate Prefecture: Ninohe City, Iwate Town, Shizukuishi Town, Takizawa City, Morioka City, Ichinohe Town
Akita Prefecture: Kazuno City, Semboku City
Aomori Prefecture: Takko Town

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

Hachimantai City isthis kind of town.

01The Yakehashiri lava flow, a national Special Natural Monument, is a lava flow about 4 km long that issued from a valley mouth on the east side of Mount Iwate; its surface bumps carry names such as “tiger form”
02The Tayama calendar is an Edo-period picture calendar recorded with pictures of farm tools and zodiac animals, and Fudo Falls, with an old shrine once on its rock face, is a three-tiered fall the city has designated a Place of Scenic Beauty
03The Natsugoriyama wind vent on Mount Tengumori, where columnar-joint rubble forms a path for cold air, has rare wind-vent plants and is a prefectural Natural Monument and a protection forest of the Tohoku Regional Forest Office

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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