04341 ／ まるもりまち
Miyagi Prefecture 伊具郡Legend: a Kannon found under the ginkgo.
Marumori Ginkgo, Kannon legend01 ／ Nekogami
The town's pamphlet records that farmers kept cats to protect cocoons and silkworms from rats, and introduces the nekogami, including memorials to cats and stones praying for good cocoon harvests, as "more than 80". The tourist information office reports 77 stone monuments and 7 stone statues.
02 ／ Stone utility pole
The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes a pole of Marumori granite on a round stone base, with an insulator near the middle. With funding from the Saito family, it says, an electric company operated in the Taisho era and supplied electricity to the town. The photo shows a building front on the street; the pole is not in it.
03 ／ Daimachi tumulus cluster
A prefectural historic site, thought to have been built from the mid-5th to the early 7th century. The prefecture calls a female haniwa holding a jar "the only complete human-shaped haniwa in the prefecture". The photo shows a six-bell mirror from Tumulus No. 20, held by the Tokyo National Museum.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
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））
Living here
The town's "Town Overview" page gives about 50 minutes from Fukushima Station to Marumori Station on the Abukuma Express Line. From Sendai Station, it says, take the Tohoku Main Line to Tsukinoki Station and change to the Abukuma Express, about an hour in all. The town has three stations: Abukuma, Marumori and Kita-Marumori.
−12.2% since 2015
18,941 → 12,262
81.52km² of it habitable
2024
2.8 people per household
2020
4.1 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
21.5km
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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