15385 ／ あがまち
Niigata Prefecture 東蒲原郡One cave that led to Incipient Jomon.
Muroya Cave, a rhyolite cave01 ／ River port
Tsugawa was the western gateway of the Aizu domain. Rice, lacquerware and other goods from Aizu were loaded onto boats here and sent to Niigata along the Agano River. At the main wharf, 100 porters worked, and in the Meiji era a new landing was built 90 m downstream. The site lies near the old Kirin Bridge.
02 ／ Yakushi hall
Byodo-ji is said to have been built in 995 by Taira no Koremochi to enshrine a golden Yakushi image he found in a river, but the town says the founding cannot be confirmed. The present hall is thatched, three bays by four, with a hip roof and a gable-side entrance. It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1923. The interior is closed to the public.
03 ／ Handmade paper
Koide washi, handmade in Koide in Kamikawa, goes back to 1590 in the records. In the Edo period it was made in large quantities as the Aizu domain's official paper, but the town now records one household and the tourist association two. Using locally grown paper mulberry, it is bleached by sunlight alone in a process called mizarashi.
Living here
Aga was formed in 2005 by the merger of the town of Tsugawa, the town of Kanose and the villages of Kamikawa and Mikawa, and covers 952.89 km². The Agano River and its tributary run through the middle, with the Iide Mountains to the north and the Echigo Mountains to the northwest. Lying between Aizu and Echigo, it is part of Higashikanbara District, which belonged to Aizu for more than 700 years from the Heian period. The gateway is Tsugawa Station on the JR Ban-etsu West Line.
−14.7% since 2015
14,703 → 9,965
168.48km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
9.0 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
45.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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