Izumozaki Town

Narrow-fronted houses line the street.

Tsumairi street, Hokkoku Kaido

Photo by Nihongo1234 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Ryokan-do

The floating hall by the painter Yasuda Yukihikowas designed to look afloat on the Sea of Japan.

The hall stands on the site of Tachibanaya, Ryokan's birthplace. The local historian Sato Taisetsu proposed it, and it was completed in September 1922 (Taisho 11). The town writes that it was designed to look afloat on the Sea of Japan with Sado Island behind it; the prefecture writes that it was designed imagining a hall floating on the sea, from the pavilion of the Phoenix Hall at Byodo-in in Uji.

Completed September 1922 (Taisho 11)
Designed by the painter Yasuda Yukihiko
Built on the site of Tachibanaya

02 ／ Amase Oil Field

An American cable-tool rig set over a hand-dug wellsucceeded in 1891, with oil spouting.

At Amase, an American cable-tool drilling machine was set over a hand-dug well and put to work; the tourism association writes that in April 1891 (Meiji 24) it succeeded, with oil spouting. The site of that well is the Mechanically Drilled Well No. 1 Site, designated a prefectural Historic Site in 1966, and is now the Oil Memorial Park. The photograph is a plate from around 1900.

April 1891 (Meiji 24): oil spouted
American cable-tool machine
Prefectural Historic Site (18 March 1966)

03 ／ Ship votive tablets

Votive tablets of ships, dedicated by shipowners,survive at Haguro Shrine and Kosho-ji Temple.

The 29 ship votive tablets (ema) at Haguro Shrine and the 5 at Kosho-ji Temple are designated by the town as Tangible Folk Cultural Properties. The Japan Heritage materials say that Haguro Shrine holds works by an ema painter who specialized in ship tablets and by an Izumozaki painter who imitated him, and that Kosho-ji holds a tablet showing two Kitamae-bune ships.

29 at Haguro Shrine, 5 at Kosho-ji Temple
Town-designated Tangible Folk Cultural Properties
Japan Heritage component

Living here

The railway is the Echigo Line; from the station, bus or taxi.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

The town advises getting off at Izumozaki Station on the JR Echigo Line and taking a bus or taxi, and, if coming by the Joetsu Shinkansen, getting off at Nagaoka Station and taking a bus. The tourism association gives about 40 minutes to Izumozaki Station from Kashiwazaki and about 1 hour 40 minutes from Niigata.

People living here: 4,113people
Area: 44.41km²
Households: 1,535households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 2 municipalities.

Izumozaki Town in Japan37.531°N 138.709°E

Territory of Izumozaki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)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

10.1km

柏崎市, 長岡市

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

Izumozaki Town isthis kind of town.

01On the Hokkoku Kaido post town of Izumozaki, the town writes that houses in the tsumairi style, with the ridge at a right angle to the street, run about 4 km along the coastline. It says that houses were taxed by frontage in the Edo period, so many have frontages of two or three and a half ken
02Inside Ryokan-do, a stone Jizo that Ryokan is said to have always carried is set into a stone pagoda, and the town writes that a poem in Ryokan's own hand is carved there, beginning "Inishie ni". The Ryokan Memorial Museum, designed by Taniguchi Yoshiro, has its exhibition building, management building and corridor registered as Tangible Cultural Properties
03The Amase Oil Field Mechanically Drilled Well No. 1 Site is a prefectural Historic Site and is now the Oil Memorial Park. The ship votive tablets of Haguro Shrine and Kosho-ji Temple are town-designated, and the procession of the Izumozaki Grand Festival was designated a town folk custom in March 2026

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Izumozaki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗