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04581 ／おながわちょう

Miyagi Prefecture 牡鹿郡

Onagawa Town

Islets float east of Oshika Peninsula.

Enoshima Islands

Photo by Satoh Junpei (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Enoshima Islands Colony

Rhinoceros auklets dig burrows over 1 m longand lay a single egg.

The Enoshima Islands consist of Enoshima and several other small islands, and are a breeding ground for Black-tailed Gulls and Rhinoceros Auklets. The prefecture says auklets are especially numerous on Ashi-jima. Gulls begin arriving in late December, breed from April to June, and leave the islands in August.

National Natural Monument, designated 1934
Auklets breed May to July
Ashi-jima: uninhabited, about 1.2 km southeast of Enoshima

02 ／ Enoshima Hoin Kagura

Forms and pieces lost elsewhere arewell preserved on Enoshima, the prefecture says.

A kagura performed at the festival of Kusushi Shrine on Enoshima. The town says it began when masters were invited from the Tome area to teach it in the Taisho era. A Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property, it is described by the prefecture as danced in ancient cloth costumes through 15 pieces, and also called Hama Kagura.

Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property
15 pieces in the repertoire
Began in the Taisho era with masters from the Tome area

03 ／ Izushima Shell Mound and Stone Remains

A Jomon shell-mound island with stone remainsthat locals call the work of tengu.

A shell mound lies in the central west of Izushima, where Jomon pottery has been excavated. The town describes a group of stone arrangements, said locally to be the work of a tengu, as stone-built remains yielding pottery shards from the Late to Final Jomon. A town history names two mounds at the site, Yamashita and Yonagokan.

Shell mound in the central west of the island
Stone arrangements yield Late to Final Jomon shards
Two mounds on the site: Yamashita and Yonagokan

Onagawa 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 May–June 2020)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

From Ishinomaki Station, the Ishinomaki Line to Onagawa.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The town's guide gives about 60 minutes from Sendai Station to Ishinomaki Station on the JR Senseki Line and Senseki-Tohoku Line, and about 30 minutes from Ishinomaki Station to Onagawa Station on the JR Ishinomaki Line. It places Onagawa about 60 km from the city of Sendai.

People living here: 6,430people
Area: 65.35km²
Households: 3,166households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 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 1 municipalities.

Onagawa Town in Japan38.445°N 141.443°E

Territory of Onagawa 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

12.2km

Ishinomaki City

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

Onagawa Town isthis kind of town.

01The Enoshima Islands float east of the Oshika Peninsula; the prefecture says they consist of Enoshima, Ashi-jima and other small islands, and are also a breeding ground for gulls and auklets
02The breeding ground of Black-tailed Gulls and Rhinoceros Auklets is a National Natural Monument, Enoshima Hoin Kagura is a Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the orbicular gabbro of one island is a Prefectural Natural Monument
03Enoshima has almost no flat land and steep narrow slopes, and the town says women once carried loads on their heads; Izushima has a Jomon shell mound

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Onagawa Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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