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03501 ／かるまいまち

Iwate Prefecture 九戸郡

Karumai Town

The Yakushido hall has a second name.

Tokurakuji Yakushido, Lapis Lazuli Hall

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Farm manual

Finding the Nogyo Zensho ill-suited,a Karumai man wrote his own manual.

The farm manual 'Notes on Cultivation in Karumai Village' was written and revised over 15 years from 1847 by a man in Karumai village who ran a sake-brewing and pawnbroking business. Together with his Yuigon (a testament), the two volumes were designated by the prefecture in 2013. The prefecture records that no manual teaching techniques suited to this region's climate and terrain existed before the end of the Edo period.

Written and revised over 15 years from 1847
Prompted by the Nogyo Zensho
Prefectural designation, 2013 (with Yuigon)

02 ／ Iron mine

Excavation revealed a tatara furnace hall,at an iron mine of the late Edo period.

Tamagawa Iron Mine is known as one of the Hachinohe domain's Six Iron Mines of Ono in the late Edo period. In 1834 a wealthy Karumai merchant is known to have been ordered to run it. Excavation since 1985 found the takadono (tatara furnace hall), with the base of a smelting furnace, a bellows stand and a basin for molten iron.

Ordered to run the mine, 1834
Excavation since 1985
Prefectural historic site, 1992

03 ／ Excavated finds

Jomon pottery, clay objects and stone tools,440 pieces in one set.

The finds from the Nagakura I site are one set of 263 Jomon-period earthenware vessels, 167 clay objects and 10 stone objects, designated by the prefecture in 2020. The prefecture's buried cultural properties center cites the site for late-period figurines with clearly shaped limbs and for goggle-eyed figurines of the final period.

263 vessels, 167 clay objects, 10 stone objects
Prefectural designation, 2020
Jomon-period finds

Karumai Town 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 October–November 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

No station; 57 minutes by bus from Ninohe.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. On the JR Bus Tohoku Ninohe-Karumai line (timetable revised in December 2023), it takes 57 minutes from Ninohe Station to the stop at the town's cultural exchange center. The town says it is about 60 minutes by bus from Ninohe or Hachinohe station to the town office.

People living here: 8,421people
Area: 245.82km²
Households: 3,274households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 6 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Karumai Town in Japan40.327°N 141.460°E

to NinoheLocal bus57min

Travel times follow ジェイアールバス東北（事業者公式）『二戸ー軽米』の路線バス時刻表（2023.12.1 改正。2026-10-23 に平日用 https://www.jrbustohoku.co.jp/route/4/219/ と土・日・祝日用 https://www.jrbustohoku.co.jp/route/4/220/ を読んだ）：二戸発の平日5便（二戸駅 7:05・9:35・12:35・16:27・19:30 発）は、かるまい文化交流センター着が 8:02・10:32・13:32・17:24・20:27 で、**5便ともすべて57分**。土・日・祝日の4便（二戸駅 7:05・12:35・15:20・19:30 発）も 8:02・13:32・16:17・20:27 着で**すべて57分**（7:05・12:35・19:30 は平日と土日祝の両方に載る毎日運転）。軽米新町も同じ着時刻。『軽米』の停留所は3分後（8:05 着＝60分）、終点の軽米病院は 8:15 着（70分）。逆向き（かるまい文化交流センター発→二戸駅着）は 6:46→7:55（69分）・9:06→10:12（66分）・13:56→15:02（66分）・16:46→17:52（66分）・17:51→18:57（66分・平日のみ）で、向きによって3分長い (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Karumai Town

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

North to south

17.4km

Iwate Prefecture: Hirono Town, Kunohe Village, Kuji City, Ninohe City
Aomori Prefecture: Hachinohe City, Nanbu Town, Hashikami Town

Karumai Town isthis kind of town.

01Tokurakuji's hall is designated by the town as "Yakushido (Lapis Lazuli Hall)", a tangible cultural property (building), and its votive plaques are a town-designated tangible folk cultural property
02A farm manual, 'Notes on Cultivation in Karumai Village', and the Nagakura I finds are prefecturally designated, and the Tamagawa Iron Mine site, an iron mine of the late Edo period, is a prefectural historic site
03The town has no railway station; the JR Bus Tohoku service takes 57 minutes from Ninohe Station

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Karumai Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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