14401 ／ あいかわまち
Kanagawa Prefecture 愛甲郡First one steel span joined the timber.
Hirayama Bridge01 ／ Twisting thread
The Hasshoshiki thread-twisting machines that ran in a Hanbara workshop until 1996 are displayed at the Aikawa Textile Hall, restored to their original layout. The town says their introduction raised thread output sharply and calls them emblematic of Hanbara, the thread town.
02 ／ Scenic spot
Shiokawa Falls in Hanbara is a town-designated scenic spot, about 15 m high. A tradition says the priest Roben of Todai-ji in Nara enshrined Seiryu Gongen here. The Shinpen Sagami no Kuni Fudokiko (1841) praises it as a very fine waterfall and includes a picture.
03 ／ Hide and shrine forest
The Shoo-era stele (hide), kept in the Yasuge Shrine treasure hall, is inscribed with the date 7 September 1291 and the names of three practitioners who entered the peaks. A hide is a marker that practitioners set up as proof of their training. The shrine forest exceeds 25,000 m2 and is a prefectural natural monument.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot October–November 2020)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
There is no railway station in the town, which gives the trip as about 40 minutes by bus from Hon-Atsugi Station on the Odakyu line. Mountains rise in the west, with Mount Bukka the highest, and a plateau lies between the Sagami and Naka rivers in the southeast.
−1.2% since 2015
43,088 → 39,869
19.42km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
5.5 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
6.5km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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