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Tono City

A capstone sits on a torii-shaped rock.

Capstone Rock, Ayaori

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Sangaku

Tengen-jutsu and crane-and-turtle problemswere dedicated at a Kannon hall.

In the leap fourth month of Kanpo 3 (1743), a villager dedicated this sangaku math tablet at Kurahasama Kannon Hall. It poses two problems and an appended note on gold and silver exchange: the first uses tengen-jutsu, a method of solving high-degree equations, the second is a crane-and-turtle problem. The prefecture describes it as the oldest surviving sangaku in the Morioka domain.

Dedicated 1743 (Kanpo 3)
Prefectural designation, 2017
Two problems plus a gold-and-silver note

02 ／ Magariya

On a fieldstone-faced terrace, a thatchedmagariya house looks south.

The main house stands on a stone-walled terrace cut into a south-facing slope in the foothills west of Tono City. The city's outline document says the main building, 25.9 m long and 11.7 m deep, is highly valued as a large magariya farmhouse of the late Edo period, and that outbuildings from the late Edo to Taisho periods also remain.

Main building: 25.9 m by 11.7 m
Outbuildings: late Edo to Taisho
Important Cultural Property, 2007

03 ／ Bridge

The 1943 bridge over the Miyamori Riveris a reinforced-concrete solid-spandrel arch.

The Japan Society of Civil Engineers selected the Miyamori River Bridge, with a neighboring bridge on the Kamaishi Line, as a reinforced-concrete solid-spandrel arch bridge (rebuilt 1943) for its 2002 Civil Engineering Heritage list. The tourism association describes five arches and says brick piers of the Taisho-era Iwate Light Railway stand before it.

Completed 1943
Civil Engineering Heritage, FY2002
Five arches

Tono 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 2016)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

One hour on the Kamaishi Line from Shin-Hanamaki.

about 30,000 people

The city says it is 3 hours 20 minutes from Tokyo by the Tohoku Shinkansen to Shin-Hanamaki Station, or 1 hour 10 minutes from Sendai, then one hour on the Kamaishi Line to Tono. Tono Station is on the Kamaishi Line, and there is no Shinkansen station in the city.

People living here: 25,366people
Area: 825.97km²
Households: 9,622households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,623yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 17 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に新設合併（宮守村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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 6 municipalities.

Tono City in Japan39.332°N 141.533°E

Territory of Tono City

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

North to south

40.7km

Hanamaki City, Sumita Town, Miyako City, Kamaishi City, Oshu City, Otsuchi Town

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

Tono City isthis kind of town.

01The Capstone Rock in Ayaori is a city-designated natural monument; the tourism association says a capstone about 7 m wide, 5 m deep and 2 m thick rests on only the left of two standing rocks, and that some see an ancient tomb while others say Benkei piled the stones
02The sangaku at Kurahasama Kannon Hall, dedicated in 1743, is a prefecturally designated historical material, and the former Chiba family residence, a large magariya whose main building is 25.9 m long, is an Important Cultural Property
03The Miyamori River Bridge is a 1943 reinforced-concrete solid-spandrel arch bridge; Tono is 3 hours 20 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen to Shin-Hanamaki, then one hour by the Kamaishi Line

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tono City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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