03441 ／ すみたちょう
Iwate Prefecture 気仙郡Records say it bought an 88 g gold lump.
Former Kanno House, gold buying01 ／ Ironworks site
Kuriki Tetsuzan was not a mine that dug iron ore but an ironworks that made iron. The town says it had two blast furnaces, a foundry, housing for staff and workers, a post office, a company store and even a school. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2021.
02 ／ School building
The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes a two-storey wooden building with clapboard walls, German-style upper walls and a porch at the center with a symmetrical layout. The town says the former Kami-Arisu Elementary School, built with the high skill of Kesen carpenters, was moved and restored at its present site.
03 ／ Bridge
The spectacles-style bridge in Kami-Arisu is a concrete arch bridge built in 1931, during the agricultural depression. Its parapets are low and one side is an irrigation channel for farmland. The town writes that its beautiful arch conveys a stance of keeping a sense of beauty.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot September–December 2013)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））
Living here
The town's access guide tells visitors to take the Iwate Kenkotsu Ofunato-Morioka bus line from Morioka Station and get off at Setamai Station. In the timetable revised in October 2025, the 17:45 bus from in front of Morioka Station, via the expressway, reaches Setamai-ekimae at 19:28, 103 minutes; the 13:40 bus via Tono takes 154. Setamai-ekimae is a bus stop name; the town's map shows Kami-Arisu Station about 30 minutes by car from Shin-Hanamaki Station.
−11.8% since 2015
7,783 → 5,045
35.12km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
9.9 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 岩手県交通『大船渡盛岡線 バス時刻表』（岩手県交通公式 https://www.iwatekenkotsu.co.jp/engan.html の『大船渡・盛岡線 平日・土日祝日』PDF。2025年10月1日運賃改定の版）。盛岡駅前（８番のりば）発 13:40→世田米駅前着 16:14（154分・遠野経由）と 17:45→19:28（103分・荷沢経由）の2本。逆向きは世田米駅前発 13:54→盛岡駅前着 16:28（154分）・7:54→9:37（103分）。大船渡駅前発 7:25→世田米駅前 7:54 と 13:25→13:54 の2本はどちらも29分（荷沢峠経由）。町公式『アクセス情報』の図（https://www.town.sumita.iwate.jp/access.html の画像 access02_2022.gif）に『盛岡駅 岩手県交通 大船渡・盛岡線（大迫・遠野経由）→世田米駅下車 2時間34分 ※高速道経由の場合は1日2便／1時間43分』とあり、2つの値は時刻表の154分・103分と一致する (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
19.0km
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