14321 ／ さむかわまち
Kanagawa Prefecture 高座郡Samukawa Shrine's hall, now another's.
Kurami Shrine hall, built 174101 ／ Railway
The Nishi-Samukawa Branch opened in 1922 as a freight line for gravel and closed in March 1984. Its route is now the Ichinomiya greenway, and about 200 m of rail is preserved inside Ichinomiya Park.
02 ／ Burial mound
Ojinzuka is a town-designated tumulus; the town's materials call it the only tumulus in town to keep its mound. Excavated in 1908 under Tsuboi Shogoro of Tokyo Imperial University, it yielded 1 Han mirror, 2 Japanese mirrors and 3 straight swords. The town's materials date its building to around the 5th century.
03 ／ Jomon
The hanging-handle pot from Okada Site (Dwelling 116) is 21.7 cm tall and dates to the middle Jomon period, about 4,500 years ago. It is a town-designated property. A cord is thought to have been passed through its ring-shaped hole to hang it as a lamp or incense burner.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
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））
Living here
The town's three stations, Samukawa, Miyayama and Kurami, are all on the JR Sagami Line. The town says to take the JR Tokaido Line from Tokyo Station to Chigasaki in about 60 minutes, then change to the Sagami Line for about 10 minutes to Samukawa Station. The town covers 13.42 km².
+0.9% since 2015
47,438 → 48,348
13.1km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
5.0 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
5.7km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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An 1889 church stands among the shops.
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