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Ueda City

A Kyushu rail bridge spans the Uchimura.

Rindo Bridge, Uchimura River

Photo by Rs1421 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Shidare enoki

The designated parent tree has died,and its young trees are protected in separate places.

The designated parent tree, said to be about 300 years old, had twigs hanging down like willow, but it died of old age in 1977. The young trees, five grown from seed and seven from grafts, are protected at several places, including the Enomi no Ie hall and the garden of the Maruko Folk Museum.

National Natural Monument, designated 1920
Parent tree died in 1977
Five seed-grown and seven grafted young trees

02 ／ Kabuki stage

A revolving stage about 4.5 m across at the centre,with two lifts called seri in front of it.

The kabuki stage in the grounds of Ikushimatarushima Shrine is a Prefectural Treasure, said by parishioners to have been built in 1868, the first year of Meiji; a 1986 repair restored it to its original form with the revolving stage. At the centre of the stage, about 16 m wide and 12 m deep, is a revolving stage about 15 shaku (4.5 m) across, with two lifts called seri in front of it.

Nine ken wide, six and a half ken deep
Revolving stage about 15 shaku across
Prefectural Treasure, 1986

03 ／ Someya ware

Where water was hard to secure in the Ueda region,Someya ware was fired mostly as water jars.

Someya ware is practical pottery such as water jars, pots and bowls, built by stretching clay into rods and coiling them up in a method called himotsukuri, and said to be thick and very heavy. In the Ueda region, where securing water was hard, demand for water jars was high and they were fired in the greatest numbers.

Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, 1964
66 items, including 46 jars and pots
Kilns closed in the early Showa era

Ueda 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

A city formed by merging four municipalities, 31 km across.

about 150,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Shinkansen stops here

Ueda was formed on 6 March 2006 by the new merger of Ueda City, Maruko Town, Sanada Town and Takeishi Village. It covers 552.04 km² (as of 1 October 2014), about 31 km from east to west and about 37 km from north to south. In JR East's timetable (October 2026), the Hokuriku Shinkansen Hakutaka No. 557 takes 79 minutes from Tokyo (running daily). The gateway is Ueda Station.

People living here: 154,055people
Area: 552.04km²
Households: 64,296households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,486yen
Healthcare: 13 hospitals ／ 100 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-06 に新設合併（丸子町・真田町・武石村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —40 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Ueda City in Japan36.402°N 138.249°E

to TokyoHokuriku Shinkansen79min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp、2610版）の東京駅北陸新幹線下りと、そこから辿る各列車の停車駅一覧ページ（上田着の時刻）。2026-10-21 に読んだ (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 11 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Ueda 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

37.4km

Nagano Prefecture: Nagawa Town, Sakaki Town, Tomi City, Aoki Village, Nagano City, Matsumoto City, Suzaka City, Tateshina Town, Chikuhoku Village, Chikuma City
Gunma Prefecture: Tsumagoi Village

Ueda City isthis kind of town.

01The Rindo Bridge over the Uchimura River in Maruko is a truss bridge imported from Germany in the Meiji era; after serving the Kyushu Railway, the Maruko Railway and the Oishi Bridge, it was set in its present place and named in 2007, and in 2024 it became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property
02In Higashiuchi, young trees of the weeping enoki whose parent tree died in 1977 are protected in several places, and the kabuki stage of Ikushimatarushima Shrine in Shimonogo has a revolving stage about 4.5 m across
03The Ueda City Museum holds 66 items of Someya ware, pottery fired mostly as water jars, as an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, and the city also has the former Kurasawa family house (a Prefectural Treasure), the Tozawa Neji ritual, the Ueda Castle ruins, and the octagonal three-storied pagoda of Anraku-ji in Shiodadaira (a National Treasure)

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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