03211 ／ かまいしし
Iwate PrefectureStars cut into stone mark a latitude.
Seiza-seki, Toni survey monument01 ／ Blast furnace
The Hashino Blast Furnace Site, a national historic site, holds the remains of three Western-style blast furnaces: No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. A Nippon Steel quarterly says No. 3 was built in 1858 and ran until 1894, and that its stonework, about 7.0 m high, used the technique of castle stone walls.
02 ／ Mine office
This two-storey reinforced concrete building, running east to west, served as the general office of the Kamaishi Mine. Its entrance at the northeast corner and the eaves running around the top of the outer walls give it accents. The Agency for Cultural Affairs calls it a refined work of modernism, and it was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.
03 ／ Sword
The cast-iron sword at Osaki Shrine was designated a tangible cultural property of the city in 2012. The city explains that it was made at the Ohashi iron mine, where Oshima Takato succeeded in building a Western-style blast furnace in 1857, and that the names of the operators are cast in relief.
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
According to the city, the JR Kamaishi Line has five stations in the city (Kamaishi, Osano, Matsukura, Tosen and Rikuchu-Ohashi) and the Sanriku Railway has five (Kamaishi, Toni, Hirata, Ryoishi and Unosumai). Kamaishi Station is shared. It is the only staffed station; the others are unstaffed.
−12.8% since 2015
49,447 → 32,078
51.36km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.9 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
27.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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