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Komagane City

A tag dating the house is in the roof.

Former Takemura Residence, moved

Photo by Qurren (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Former Komagane City Hall

A Western-style building raised as a village officewas lavish for its time.

Completed in October 1922 (Taisho 11) as the Akaho Village Office. The city says it took up a Colonial style, with Renaissance-style decoration inside, and was lavish for a village office of its day. When a new city hall was finished in 1971 (Showa 46), part of the building was moved to its present site and now serves as the Folk Museum.

Completed October 1922 (Taisho 11)
City-designated Tangible Cultural Property, March 30, 1976
Cost in the 50,000-yen range; the village's whole budget then was over 190,000 yen

02 ／ Yaosame rite

An archer, or yumiko, servesonly once in a lifetime.

Takazuya Shrine is the great tutelary shrine of the five Higashiina districts, and its festival includes the Yaosame rite of large-target archery. The city says it goes back to 1712 (Shotoku 2), and that the yumiko are chosen from the five districts, usually ten of them, eldest first. The shooting distance, once 33 ken, is now 15 ken (over 27 m).

City-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property, December 27, 2011
Usually ten yumiko, each serving once in a lifetime
Shooting distance of 15 ken (over 27 m)

03 ／ Koto Nenbutsu

Children turn a prayer-bead ring 2.5 m across,chanting as they go.

Held in February at Okubo in Higashiina. The city says that when one person inside the ring strikes a bell as a signal, the children chant "Koto Nenbutsu Nanmaida" and turn the beads. Revived in 1974 (Showa 49), it was selected by the state, as one of the Ina Valley Koto Yokka rituals, as an Intangible Folk Cultural Property for which Measures such as Making Records should be Taken.

Selected by the state as an intangible folk cultural property, March 2011
Bead ring 2.5 m across
Revived in 1974 (Showa 49)

Komagane 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 2004)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

By express bus, 210 minutes from Shinjuku and 155 from Nagoya.

about 30,000 people

The city lies near the center of the Ina Valley in southern Nagano Prefecture, with the Southern Alps to the east and the Central Alps to the west in view. The name Komagane means the foot of Mount Komagatake and was given when the city was founded in 1954 (Showa 29). It measures 25 km east to west and 8.1 km north to south, with an area of 165.86 km². The gateway is Komagane Station, a 10-minute walk from City Hall.

People living here: 32,202people
Area: 165.86km²
Households: 12,956households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,378yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 33 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Komagane City in Japan35.729°N 137.934°E

to ShinjukuHighway bus210min
to NagoyaHighway bus155min

Travel times follow 京王バス『新宿～伊那飯田線』時刻表（2025年9月1日現在・2025.12.24発行）と、名鉄バス『名古屋⇔駒ヶ根・伊那』時刻表（2026-10-21 に取得。お知らせの最新は 2026-10-20） (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Komagane 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

12.8km

Iijima Town, Miyada Village, Ina City, Okuwa Village, Nakagawa Village, Oshika Village, Agematsu Town

Komagane City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Takemura Residence is a headman's house moved from Nakazawa in 1968 (Showa 43) and an Important Cultural Property; the Agency for Cultural Affairs says it holds a ridgepole tablet showing it was built in 1685 (Jokyo 1), now inside the roof and out of sight, while the city says its construction date is not known
02The Former Komagane City Hall is the Akaho Village Office completed in 1922 (Taisho 11), a city-designated Tangible Cultural Property; the Yaosame rite at Takazuya Shrine is a city-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and a yumiko serves only once in a lifetime
03The Koto Nenbutsu of Okubo is one of the Ina Valley Koto Yokka rituals selected by the state; the city's list of cultural properties also includes the Komachiya residence, a Prefectural Treasure on the upper step of a fault above the right bank of the Tenryu River, and the Hayataro legend of Kozenji Temple

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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