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04321 ／おおがわらまち

Miyagi Prefecture 柴田郡

Ogawara Town

The torii is made of nanban iron.

Nanban torii, Otakayama Shrine

Photo by Bachstelze (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Waniguchi

A waniguchi gong bearing the year Shoo 6 (1293)is kept at Otakayama Shrine.

A waniguchi is a gong hung under a shrine or temple eave and struck with a rope. This one is 43 cm across and weighs 32.5 kg. Its inscription reads Shoo 6, third month, fifth day. The shrine explains it was offered by the priest Hokkyo Gen'o as organizer, praying for long life for the local steward Shami Zen'eki and his family.

National Important Cultural Property, designated 1968
Inscribed Shoo 6 (1293)
43 cm across, 32.5 kg

02 ／ Cherry row

The embankment's cherry row came from about 1,200 treesdonated and planted by a man from the town.

Cherry row in Ogawara Town — Photo by くろふね (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The town records that a businessman born in the town donated and planted about 700 cherry saplings in 1923 and about 500 in 1927. He is said to have wanted to recreate Tokyo's Asukayama Park in his hometown. The row now runs about 8 km, from Kanagase to Funaoka in Shibata Town.

About 1,200 trees, 1923 and 1927
About 8 km, Kanagase to Funaoka
Named one of 100 cherry sites, 1990

03 ／ Itabi

Twenty old stone monuments standin the grounds of Kanagase Yakushido.

The town's tourism site counts twenty old monuments in the grounds of Kanagase Yakushido, and its cultural property chronology lists an itabi stone tablet set up there in Bunpo 2 (1318). It is said that in a drought in the Bunmei era (1469-1487) a man named Takahashi shut himself in the hall and brought rain, so it is also called the rain-praying Yakushi.

Twenty old monuments in the grounds
Chronology lists Bunpo 2 (1318)
Rain-praying tradition, Bunmei era

Ogawara 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 July 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

About 35 minutes to Sendai on the Tohoku Main Line.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town says it is about 35 minutes to Sendai and about 13 minutes to Shiroishi on the JR Tohoku Main Line (page updated February 2019). Its tourism site lists the JR East Tohoku Main Line and Miyako Bus's Kawasaki Line and Ogawara-Togatta Line.

People living here: 23,571people
Area: 24.99km²
Households: 9,524households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,358yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 18 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 5 municipalities.

Ogawara Town in Japan38.049°N 140.731°E

Territory of Ogawara 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

6.0km

Murata Town, Zao Town, Kakuda City, Shibata Town, Shiroishi City

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

Ogawara Town isthis kind of town.

01The torii at Otakayama Shrine is called the Nanban-iron torii; nanban iron means iron that came to Japan from the late Muromachi period, and the town describes this torii as Edo-period
02The shrine's waniguchi, inscribed Shoo 6 (1293), is a national Important Cultural Property, and the cherry row on the Shiroishi River embankment came from about 1,200 trees donated and planted by a man from the town
03Twenty old monuments stand in the grounds of Kanagase Yakushido, the town's chronology lists an itabi there in Bunpo 2 (1318), and Sendai is about 35 minutes away on the Tohoku Main Line

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ogawara Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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