20541 ／ おぶせまち
Nagano Prefecture 上高井郡Ceiling: dragon on red, phoenix in blue.
Festival float ceiling paintings01 ／ Joko-ji Yakushi Hall
The hall has three bays by four, one story, a hip-and-gable roof and a thatched roof. Cultural Heritage Online gives its date as "mid-Muromachi / 1408," and the town's list gives Oei 15 (1408). It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1907. At the same temple, the Twelve Divine Generals and the Nikko and Gakko Bodhisattvas are town treasures.
02 ／ Daifu Senryo Embankment
The Matsu River once ran northwest through the center of town. From the late Sengoku to the early Edo period, the Senryo Embankment was built in the town's southeast, and the river took its present course. A prefectural legend card says Fukushima Masanori, who ruled the area from Genna 5 (1619), built it; the town's history does not name who built it.
03 ／ Kuri-no-komichi
In the 1980s, around the Takai Kozan Memorial Hall and Hokusai-kan, a "streetscape restoration project" began, run by six landowners including the local government. Spaces such as the chestnut-wood-brick "Chestnut Lane" came to symbolize Obuse today. The town records that the idea "inside is mine, outside is everyone's" spread across the town.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot September–October 2024)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））
Living here
The town's own history says that Mount Karita lies to the east, the Chikuma River to the west, the Shinoi River to the north and the Matsu River to the south, so that it is ringed by mountains and rivers. The Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line has two stations in town, Obuse and Tsuzumi, and the gateway is Obuse Station.
−0.4% since 2015
11,436 → 10,660
16.55km² of it habitable
2024
2.9 people per household
2020
8.4 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
4.8km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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