Moriai Garden, Tsugaruishi, Miyako City
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03202 ／ みやこし

Iwate Prefecture

Miyako City

The lord's lodging prompted the garden's completion.

Moriai Garden, Tsugaruishi

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Roadside memorial stones

Bokuan Bengyu worked on the Hei Kaido;a stone inscription still bears the 1758 date.

Born to a farming family in Wainai, Bokuan Bengyu worked on repairing the Hei Kaido road in the Horeki era, the city says. The inscription on a new-road memorial at a tunnel's south mouth, southwest of Moshi Station, is dated 10 October 1758. At another site, the road is recorded as dug in five days by 252 people in total.

  • Inscription of 1758
  • 252 people over 5 days at one site, as recorded
  • Bengyu stone group: city-designated

02 ／ Kagura

Carrying the lion-head Gongen, they leave Kuromori Shrineand tour by the north and south routes in alternate years.

Kagura in Miyako City
Photo by Orienoda (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kuromori Kagura visits homes with a lion head called Gongen-sama and performs pieces for blessings such as warding off evil. The tour runs in alternate years on a northern or southern route from Miyako, leaving Kuromori Shrine on 3 January and returning a little over a month later.

  • Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (2006)
  • North and south routes in alternate years
  • Departs Kuromori Shrine on 3 January

03 ／ Folk cultural property

From a one-piece Nanbu-type foot plowto a direct-seeding tool for barnyard millet: 1,345 items.

A collection of mountain-village tools used in Kawai Village, arranged in order of work process: gathering and processing, farming, forestry, charcoal-making, hunting and more. Among the field tools, the Agency for Cultural Affairs singles out the Nanbu-type foot plow made from a single piece of wood and the direct-seeding tools for barnyard millet.

  • Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (2003)
  • 1,345 items
  • Preserved and shown at the Kitakami Mountains Folk Museum

Miyako City from the sky

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））

Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Miyako Station serves the Yamada Line and the Rias Line.

  • about 50,000 people

The city's "transport timetables" page lists timetables for JR East, the Sanriku Railway and Iwate Kenpoku Bus, among others. Miyako Station is a station on the JR Yamada Line and the Sanriku Railway Rias Line.

People living here
50,369people
2010

−11.1% since 2015

59,430 → 50,369

Area
1,259.18km²

118.5km² of it habitable

2024

Households
21,289households

2.4 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
35,887yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
4 hospitals ／ 34 clinics

7.5 per 10,000 people

2023

Area1259.18km²Habitable land118.5km² ／ 9%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-06-06 に新設合併（田老町・新里村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。2010-01-01 に編入合併（川井村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare
—16 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Miyako City in Japan39.640°N 141.946°E
TokyoOsakaMiyako City
Territory of Miyako City
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

43.6km

Iwaizumi Town, Yamada Town, Tono City, Morioka City, Otsuchi Town, Hanamaki City

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

Miyako City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The Moriai Garden in Tsugaruishi is a Registered Monument; the Agency for Cultural Affairs explains that its pond garden was completed in 1797 after the house served as lodging during lord Nanbu Toshitaka's tour of his domain
  2. 02Memorial stones from 1758 remain along the Hei Kaido that Bokuan Bengyu of Wainai worked on, Kuromori Kagura is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Kawai village tools are an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
  3. 03The city lists the Sakiyama shell midden, a national historic site, and Jodogahama among its national and prefectural cultural properties, and the old town has the Former Azumaya Sake Brewery, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miyako City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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