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20384 ／いいじままち

Nagano Prefecture 上伊那郡

Iijima Town

Magistrate's office became prefectural.

Ina Prefectural Office Site

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Zairai Silk Production

From growing the mulberryto weaving, it is one craft.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes zairai silk production as a technique that, by studying pre-modern methods and reconstructing them, covers mulberry cultivation, native silkworm rearing, silk reeling and weaving. The silk is used as mending cloth, mending thread and floss for textile cultural properties under repair. The town's list of cultural properties includes it as a nationally selected item.

Mulberry growing to weaving
Mending cloth, thread, floss
Reiwa 3 on the cultural property map

02 ／ Tagiri Terrain

Terrain where rivers cut through terracesis called Tagiri terrain.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism describes terrain formed as rivers such as the Nakatagiri and the Yotagiri flow across river terraces and fault scarps and erode the terrace surfaces fiercely. The town says the Yotagiri River rises in the Central Alps and flows through a deep gorge. Tagiri was the name of a village in the Meiji era and survives today as a station name on the Iida Line.

Nakatagiri and Yotagiri Rivers
Terrace surfaces eroded fiercely
Tagiri Station on the Iida Line

03 ／ Seiganji Approach

Beyond a town-designated approach of scenic beauty,a town-designated temple gate stands.

Seiganji Approach in Iijima Town — Photo by 濃間 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Hachijuni Cultural Foundation describes the approach to Seiganji as centered on a row of pines, with black pines of an estimated 200 years old lining both sides. The gate is a yakui-mon, and the foundation's commentary dates it to 1844 and credits a carpenter of Narai-juku. The temple also holds a prefecture-designated wooden statue of Zen Master Daikaku.

Approach: town-designated scenic beauty
Black pines of an estimated 200 years
Gate dated 1844

Iijima 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 June–September 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 Southern Alps to the east, the Central Alps to the west.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

Iijima lies in the south of Nagano Prefecture, near the middle of the Ina Valley, and the town's own site calls it a town where two Alps can be seen. Five stations of the JR Iida Line are in the town: Tagiri, Nanakubo, Ina-Hongo, Iijima and Takatobara. Its gateway is Iijima Station.

People living here: 9,004people
Area: 86.96km²
Households: 3,391households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Iijima Town in Japan35.677°N 137.920°E

Territory of Iijima 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

9.1km

Komagane City, Nakagawa Village, Matsukawa Town, Okuwa Village, Iida City

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

Iijima Town isthis kind of town.

01The site of Iijima Jinya, an Edo-period magistrate's office, was used as the Ina Prefecture office in the early Meiji era; it is a Nagano Prefecture historic site, and its building has been reconstructed from excavations and old documents
02Zairai silk production, which the town's list of cultural properties includes as a nationally selected item, is a technique covering mulberry cultivation through weaving, making silk used to mend textile cultural properties
03The Tagiri terrain, cut by the Yotagiri and Nakatagiri Rivers through river terraces, lies here, and Seiganji has a town-designated approach of scenic beauty and a temple gate

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iijima Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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