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04324 ／かわさきまち

Miyagi Prefecture 柴田郡

Kawasaki Town

A relocated house in a spa village.

Aone Yokan, ex-missionary house

Photo by ToshiJapon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Old wisteria

A wisteria that splits into three trunkscovers the Fudo Hall grounds in bloom.

A national natural monument, it climbs cedars and zelkovas. The Agency for Cultural Affairs says it splits into three trunks from the base, measuring 4.8 m around the base of all three and 2.7 m for the main trunk. In the May-June flowering season, it says, the whole hall precinct is covered in blossoms.

National natural monument, designated June 16, 1976
4.8 m around the base of the three trunks (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Flowering season: May-June

02 ／ Old ginkgo

An old ginkgo standing along the Sasaya Kaidohas the shape of an inverted cone.

A prefecturally designated natural monument, and a male tree according to the prefecture. It measures 8 m around at eye level and 27 m to its top. The town says a ginkgo whip stuck upside down in the ground took root, and that the tree is called the Upside-down Ginkgo because it is thick above and thin below.

Prefectural natural monument
8 m around at eye level, 27 m tall (prefecture)
Male tree

03 ／ Sasaya Kaido

The pines left along National Route 286 are saidto have been planted by a local youth group around 1919.

The Sasaya Kaido is a road developed in the Edo period, leading from the Oshu Kaido over Sasaya Pass to Yamagata. The town introduces the row of pines as keeping a trace of the old highway even now that it is National Route 286, and says they are traditionally held to have been planted by the Kawasaki Youth Association around 1919.

Road developed in the Edo period
Pines keep a trace of the old highway
Said to be planted around 1919 by the youth association

Kawasaki 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 August 2016)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

A mountain town, 67 minutes by bus from Sendai Station.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town, and the town's website lists local buses from Sendai Station. On the Takeya Kotsu Seibu Liner (timetable revised December 1, 2025), the fastest bus running every day from Sendai Station to the Kawasaki Town stop takes 67 minutes. The tourism portal says forest covers 80% of the area.

People living here: 8,345people
Area: 270.77km²
Households: 2,967households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Kawasaki Town in Japan38.178°N 140.643°E

to SendaiLocal bus67min

Travel times follow タケヤ交通『秋保・川崎仙台西部ライナー』時刻表（https://takeyakotsu.jp/seibu-liner/ ・PDF『2025.12.1改正』https://takeyakotsu.jp/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/seibuliner20251201.pdf ・サイトの更新日 2025年12月01日・2026-10-28 に PDF を画像でも読んだ）。**仙台駅前発→かわさきまち着（下り）**：S01 8:30→9:42（72分）・S02 9:30→10:49／10:30→11:49／…／16:30→17:49（各79分）・S03 17:30→18:41（71分）・S04 18:30→19:37／19:30→20:37／20:30→21:37（各67分）・S04 21:50→22:57（67分。◎＝日曜・祝日運休）。**毎日運転の最速は S04 の 18:30→19:37・19:30→20:37・20:30→21:37＝67分**（この3便の便数欄に◎は無い。◎が付くのは最終便〈仙台駅前発21:50・かわさきまち発20:20〉だけ）。S04 は天文台・界秋保前・木の家前・みちのく公園・里山地区入口・エコキャンプ入口前を通らない。運転日の注記：『◎印：日曜日・祝日は運行いたしません』は最終便だけ。『乗降は予約制ではございません』。**往き（かわさきまち→仙台駅前）**：T01 6:30→7:27（57分）・T02 7:40→8:59（79分）・T05 18:40→19:48（68分）ほか。下りの67分と上りの57分で向きにより10分違うので、都市→町の下りにそろえた（共通の決め）。 (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kawasaki 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

14.9km

Miyagi Prefecture: Sendai City, Zao Town, Murata Town
Yamagata Prefecture: Yamagata City

Kawasaki Town isthis kind of town.

01Aone Yokan is a Western-style house. In 1959 Tohoku Gakuin moved a former missionary house from Sendai to Aone, and it was later moved again to its present site. A plate on its side records the gift from Tohoku Gakuin and the date May 29, Heisei 13
02The Takimae Fudo Wisteria, a national natural monument, splits into three trunks in the grounds of Fudo Hall. The prefectural Upside-down Ginkgo is an inverted-cone old tree along the Sasaya Kaido
03The pines of the Sasaya Kaido along National Route 286 are said, in the town's introduction, to have been planted by the Kawasaki Youth Association around 1919, and they keep a trace of the old highway

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.

Kawasaki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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