Kariwa Village

Orchards cleared from dunes, it is said.

Sakyu-momo, peach orchards

Photo by Nihongo1234 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Monument

"Monument to Tsukada, Founder of the Peach Grove"is a historic site designated by the village.

The village records that at the end of the Edo period Tsukada, a farmer who also worked as a travelling peddler, cleared barren dunes and turned them into peach orchards, as the story goes. The village-designated historic site, the Monument to Tsukada, Founder of the Peach Grove, is recorded in the prefecture's list as a monument of 1901 (Meiji 34), designated on 11 July 1975.

Village historic site
A monument of 1901
Designated 11 July 1975

02 ／ Hozo-ji Temple

The boat would not move, like a rock,so the Kannon stayed where it was, it is said.

Hozo-ji Temple enshrines the Kannon bodhisattva of the fifth temple of the Echigo Thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage. When Uesugi Kagekatsu was transferred to Yonezawa, the Kannon and an Amida Nyorai statue were put on a boat, but the boat would not move, like a rock, so they were enshrined again where they had been, it is said, and the temple's mountain name comes from this. A kakebotoke (hanging plaque) of 1616 is a village-designated cultural property.

Fifth temple of Echigo's pilgrimage
Mountain name from the legend
Kakebotoke of 1616

03 ／ Shell midden

A shell midden whose 1952 excavation yieldedearly Jomon pots named the "Kariwa style."

According to the village, the Kariwa shell midden is a brackish-water shell midden. The 1952 excavation turned up shells and many early Jomon pots named the "Kariwa style" (Kariwa-shiki). The prefecture's list records it as a prefectural historic site designated on 10 December 1952, dating from the early to the middle Jomon period.

Brackish-water shell midden
1952 excavation
Designated 10 December 1952

Living here

Dunes to the west, plains in the middle, hills to the east.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

According to the village, Kariwa is made up of dunes in the west, flat land in the middle and hills in the east. On the dunes, pine windbreaks and dune fields line up, spring water is used for the water supply and irrigation, and rice paddies spread over the flat land. The village borders Kashiwazaki to the south and the former Nishiyama Town to the north, and has an exclave that partly touches Nagaoka. Its flower is the peach and its tree the black pine. The gateway is Kariwa Station on the JR Echigo Line.

People living here: 4,380people
Area: 26.27km²
Households: 1,595households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 1 clinic

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Kariwa Village in Japan37.422°N 138.623°E

Territory of Kariwa Village

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

6.5km

柏崎市, 長岡市

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

Kariwa Village isthis kind of town.

01Sakyu-momo, the village's symbol, is said to have begun at the end of the Edo period when a farmer-peddler, Tsukada, turned barren dunes into peach orchards; the peach is also the village flower
02A village historic site, the Monument to Tsukada, Founder of the Peach Grove, stands in one district, and the Kariwa shell midden, where pots named the "Kariwa style" were found, remains as a prefectural historic site
03Hozo-ji Temple has a legend of a boat that would not move with a Kannon aboard, and there are also walking paths to the Akada and Katsuyama castle sites and Kariwa Shinike Nature Observation Park, where Genji fireflies fly in early summer

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kariwa Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗