03482 ／ やまだまち
Iwate Prefecture 下閉伊郡Named for a Dutch ship's arrival.
Oranda Island, Yamada Bay01 ／ Shinko ritual
At Yamada Hachimangu, a mikoshi was dedicated in 1769, and a record from 1864 notes that performing arts took part. In the Osugi Shrine procession, the mikoshi is purified in the sea, moved onto a boat, taken to a cape for a shrine visit and sailed once around Yamada Bay.
02 ／ Funakoshi Oshima
Funakoshi Oshima, nicknamed Tabu no Oshima, lies off the south of the Funakoshi Peninsula and is an uninhabited island about 2 km around. The town writes that, thanks to the Kuroshio, tabu trees grow thickly and it is considered the northern limit of their natural range on the Pacific side. It is a prefectural natural monument.
03 ／ Funakoshi Peninsula
On the east side of the Funakoshi Peninsula is a great cliff where the mid-slope of a 504.2 m mountain falls straight into the sea, its rock face reddish-brown. To the southeast, a 150 m sheer cliff and a channel between reefs make a spot called the sea's crevasse.
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
The town describes the rail route as the Tohoku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Morioka, the JR Yamada Line to Miyako, then the Sanriku Railway Rias Line to Rikuchu-Yamada, or from Shin-Hanamaki via the JR Kamaishi Line to Kamaishi and on to Rikuchu-Yamada.
−9.5% since 2015
22,019 → 14,320
26.67km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
2.8 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
18.3km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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