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04203 ／しおがまし

Shiogama City

A shrine on an island sung in waka.

Magakigashima, Magaki Shrine

Photo by Arui Kashiwagi (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Shiogama Shrine Buildings

The left and right shrines face south,the Betsugu faces west.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs says the present shrine was completed in 1704 and consists of the south-facing left and right shrines, the west-facing Betsugu, a gate and corridors, a tower gate and a torii. The worship halls of the left and right shrines reuse a 1663 hall, and the layout has almost no parallel.

2002: Important Cultural Property (shrine buildings)
South-facing left and right shrines, west-facing Betsugu
Present shrine completed 1704

02 ／ Moshioyaki Ritual

The ritual of making salt from sargassumis thought to go back to ancient times.

Moshioyaki Ritual in Shiogama City — Photo by ChiefHira (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property held for three days every July at Okama Shrine, a subsidiary shrine of Shiogama Shrine. It consists of seaweed cutting, changing the seawater in the kettle and boiling it down, and the prefecture records that divination by the color of the kettle's water goes back to 1636.

Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Three days every July
Seaweed cutting, water changing, salt boiling

03 ／ Shiogama-zakura

A double-flowered cherry with 35 to 50 petalsis kept going from saplings.

Shiogama-zakura in Shiogama City — Photo by Hongshi at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A Satozakura-type double cherry that is in full bloom in early May in a normal year. The tree designated in 1940 withered and was delisted in 1959; saplings planted in the grounds grew, and it was designated a National Natural Monument again in 1987.

National Natural Monument (designated 1987)
35 to 50 petals
In full bloom in early May

Shiogama 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 May 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

The tourist office is inside Hon-Shiogama Station on the Senseki Line.

about 50,000 people

The tourist office "Shio-Navi Plaza" of the city's tourism and products association is inside JR Senseki Line Hon-Shiogama Station. The city also has Higashi-Shiogama and Nishi-Shiogama stations on the Senseki Line and Shiogama Station on the Senseki and Tohoku Main lines.

People living here: 52,203people
Area: 17.38km²
Households: 21,193households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,307yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 43 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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 3 municipalities.

Shiogama City in Japan38.314°N 141.022°E

Territory of Shiogama 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

6.0km

Rifu Town, Tagajo City, Shichigahama Town

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

Shiogama City isthis kind of town.

01Magakigashima is a small island in Shiogama that the prefecture describes as a poetic place often praised in waka; Magaki Shrine, a subsidiary shrine of Shiogama Shrine, stands on it, and it is one of the components of the nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty "Scenic Sites of the Narrow Road to the Deep North"
02The Shiogama Shrine buildings are an Important Cultural Property, and the Moshioyaki ritual of Okama Shrine is a Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property
03Shiogama-zakura is a National Natural Monument; after the tree delisted in 1959, saplings planted in the grounds were designated again in 1987

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