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04216 ／とみやし

Tomiya City

Where it crumbled, they dug into a hill.

Shitoda Tunnel, water tunnel

Photo by ToshiJapon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Old tree

The prefecture calls this sacred treethe foremost Japanese evergreen oak in Miyagi.

Old tree in Tomiya City — Photo by ToshiJapon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This is the sacred tree of Kashima Amatariwake Shrine, standing southeast of the main hall. It is about 20 m tall with a trunk 5.8 m around, and is said to be 500 to 600 years old. It forks into thick branches 1.5 m above the ground, spreading 27.5 m east to west. A turtle-shaped boulder in the grounds is a city-designated historic site.

Prefectural natural monument
About 20 m tall, trunk 5.8 m
Said to be 500-600 years old

02 ／ Place name

The city says Tomiya was once written"Tomiya" for ten old shrines.

The city says the name was changed at some point to the auspicious characters now used, and that of the ten shrines only one still stands. The old town's tourist guide says a gazetteer from around 1774 records the change from "Ten Shrines" to Tomiya.

Ten old shrines
One of the ten still stands
Gazetteer from around 1774

03 ／ Post-town shop

A storehouse-style shop with three black bandsstands in the post town of Tomiya.

The Former Sachu Shop is a merchant house in the Tomiya post town on the Oshu Kaido. Its storehouse-style shop faces the road south, with three bands of black plaster across white plaster and namako walls, and fan-rafter-style eaves. The Agency for Cultural Affairs database says it gives the road a "solemn" streetscape.

Nationally registered, Feb. 4, 2021
Two-story storehouse, 141 m2
First registered in the Kurokawa area

Tomiya 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 2023)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 Sendai Station by subway and bus to a hill city.

about 50,000 people

The city's guide says it takes about 15 minutes from Sendai Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen to Izumi-Chuo Station on the Sendai City Subway Namboku Line, about 30 minutes by Miyagi Kotsu bus to a stop called Tomiya Gakko-mae, then about 15 minutes on foot to City Hall. The area is 49.18 km2, 7.12 km east to west and 10.02 km north to south, on the edge of the Rikuzen Hills.

People living here: 51,651people
Area: 49.18km²
Households: 18,401households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,936yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 27 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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.

Tomiya City in Japan38.400°N 140.895°E

Territory of Tomiya 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

11.1km

Taiwa Town, Sendai City, Rifu Town

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

Tomiya City isthis kind of town.

01Shitoda Tunnel carries water through a hill where the ground was sandy and kept collapsing; the old town's tourist guide says it credits one man with completing it
02The sacred Japanese evergreen oak of Kashima Amatariwake Shrine is said to be 500 to 600 years old, and the prefecture calls it the foremost Japanese evergreen oak in Miyagi
03The city says Tomiya was once "Ten Shrines" for ten old shrines, and the storehouse-style shop of the Former Sachu Shop is a nationally registered tangible cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tomiya City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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