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14301 ／はやままち

Kanagawa Prefecture 三浦郡

Hayama Town

No big tombs, it was said. Then haniwa.

Nagae-Sakurayama Kofun Group

Photo by Quercus acuta (CC0)

01 ／ Architecture

A gate and a main hall, bothprefectural properties, in Kamiyamaguchi.

At Shinzenkoji in Kamiyamaguchi, the four-legged gate (designated 1964) and the main hall (1972) are Kanagawa Prefecture Important Cultural Properties. The shrine for the image was built in 1797 according to its ridge tablet, by a carpenter handed down as Mosuke Banjo.

Gate designated in 1964
Main hall designated in 1972
Image shrine built in 1797

02 ／ Satoyama

Kamiyamaguchi's terraced rice fieldswere chosen as one of 100 villages.

The town describes the terraced fields of Kamiyamaguchi as a beautiful Japanese landscape nurtured by people's lives. In 2009 they were chosen for the Asahi Shimbun and Forest Culture Association's 100 Selected Villages, and Kanagawa Prefecture writes that they have continued for over 400 years.

Selected in 2009
Prefecture says over 400 years

03 ／ Folk culture

A mask said to be netted by a fishermanis kept at Morito Daimyojin.

The old man's mask (okina-men) of Morito Daimyojin is a Kanagawa Prefecture Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (1995). A wooden mask 16 cm tall, it is recorded in the Shinpen Sagami no Kuni Fudoki-ko as taken by a fisherman's net from the sea off Kotsubo. It is thought to date from the early Muromachi period or a little earlier.

Designated by the prefecture in 1995
16 cm tall
Early Muromachi or earlier

Hayama Town 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 November 2021)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

No railway station; the bus comes from Zushi.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway in the town; visitors come by bus from Zushi Station on the JR Yokosuka Line or Zushi-Hayama Station on the Keikyu Line. The town guides visitors to take the Keikyu bus (Zushi 1) from the front of Zushi Station and get off at Hayama Town Hall, about a one-minute walk.

People living here: 31,665people
Area: 17.04km²
Households: 12,932households
Rent (average for rentals): 85,876yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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 2 municipalities.

Hayama Town in Japan35.272°N 139.586°E

Territory of Hayama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

4.3km

Zushi City, Yokosuka City

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

Hayama Town isthis kind of town.

01The nationally designated Nagae-Sakurayama Kofun Group spans Hayama and Zushi and became known in 1999 when a town resident found haniwa
02At Shinzenkoji in Kamiyamaguchi, the gate and main hall are prefecturally designated and the image shrine dates from 1797
03Kamiyamaguchi's terraced fields were chosen as one of Japan's 100 Selected Villages in 2009, and Morito Daimyojin holds a prefecturally designated old man's mask

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hayama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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