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04208 ／かくだし

Kakuda City

A thatched hall said built around 1177.

Kozoji Amida Hall

01 ／ Centipede ema

Plaques painted with centipedes, to protect silkworms,were offered at a Bishamon hall.

The city says rats were thought to dislike centipedes, which were regarded as messengers of Bishamonten, so people offered plaques with centipedes painted on them. A farmer borrowed one to hang at home, then returned two after the silkworm season ended safely.

Plaques at Fukuoji Temple's Bishamon hall: 23,477 (prefecture)
Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, 2012
Oldest dates from 1768

02 ／ Silkworm shrine

A small shrine to the silkworm deity, moved from Kasamatsu,stands in the Sumiyoshi Shrine grounds.

In the grounds of Sumiyoshi Shrine in Edano stand a small shrine to the silkworm deity moved from the Kasamatsu district and many stones tied to sericulture, among them snake-day, cat deity and silkworm-raising stones. The votive hall west of the main hall was moved from the former worship hall built in 1712.

Votive hall: former worship hall built in 1712
Many sericulture stones in the grounds
Grounds are part of the Koriyama site, thought to be a district office

03 ／ Former Sato house

A thatched farmhouse with an earthen floor taking up about 40 percentstands in the grounds of Kozoji Temple.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes a medium-sized farmhouse of the Sendai domain, estimated to date from the mid to late 18th century. It has a thatched hip roof, and thick, rounded pillars stand in pairs, six in all, in its earthen floor. The city says it was moved here in 1972.

Important Cultural Property, 1971
14.9 m long, 7.8 m deep
Estimated mid to late 18th century

Kakuda 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 2022)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

Kakuda Station is on the Abukuma Express Line.

about 30,000 people

On the Abukuma Express Line, the station next to Kakuda toward Tsukinoki is Yokokura, and the one toward Fukushima is Minami-Kakuda. The city's access page says that from the Sendai side, visitors change trains at Tsukinoki Station on the JR Tohoku Main Line (updated July 2020).

People living here: 27,976people
Area: 147.53km²
Households: 10,276households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,693yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Kakuda City in Japan37.977°N 140.782°E

Territory of Kakuda City

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

18.3km

Marumori Town, Watari Town, Yamamoto Town, Shibata Town, Shiroishi City, Ogawara Town

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

Kakuda City isthis kind of town.

01Kozoji Amida Hall, an Important Cultural Property, is a thatched hall with a pyramidal roof said to date from about 1177, which the prefecture calls the oldest building in its territory
02Fukuoji Temple's Bishamon hall holds 23,477 plaques painted with centipedes to protect silkworms, per the prefecture, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
03Sumiyoshi Shrine has a small silkworm shrine moved from Kasamatsu, and the former Sato house, an Important Cultural Property, stands in the Kozoji Temple grounds

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Kakuda City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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