Kashiwazaki City

Thatched houses are scattered around the paddies.

Oginoshima, thatched ring hamlet

Photo by Nihongo1234 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Ayako-mai

Until about the early Showa era,only men danced the Ayako-mai.

綾子舞会館.jpg — Photo by Mizuki Kusakawa (CC BY-SA 4.0)

A folk performing art handed down in Onadani for about 500 years, it is the collective name for the kouta-odori danced by women and the hayashi-mai and kyogen performed by men. It was passed on only to the eldest sons of designated families. Today the two troupes of Takanda and Shimono carry it on, with a public performance at Onadani on the second Sunday of September each year.

Handed down for about 500 years
1976: National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
2022: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

02 ／ Omigawa Station

Step onto the platform,and the coast is right in front of you.

The city says that when you step onto the platform at Omigawa Station, the Omigawa coast lies right in front of you, with blue sea and a clear river. Together with Kujiranami, it was chosen as one of Japan's 100 Beaches (Nagisa Hyakusen), and the sunset over the Sea of Japan is a highlight.

Japan's 100 Beaches: Kujiranami-Omigawa coast
Chosen in 1994
Sunset over the Sea of Japan

03 ／ Shiiya Kannon-do

A thatched Kannon hall,reached by 300 stone steps.

The city says the 300 stone steps running from the Nio gate up to the Kannon hall were built single-handedly by Tonnyu-shami over 18 years. Midway stands the stone torii of Katori Shrine, offered in 1802 by a Shiiya ship's owner and its sailors. The present thatched hall was rebuilt in 1770.

300 stone steps
Built single-handedly over 18 years
Stone torii offered in 1802

Living here

In 2005, Takayanagi, home to Oginoshima, joined.

about 80,000 people

Kashiwazaki faces the Sea of Japan, near the center of Niigata Prefecture, and is the center of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa area. It became a city in 1940, and on 1 May 2005 it merged with Takayanagi and Nishiyama to become the present city. The gateway is Kashiwazaki Station on the JR Shin-etsu and Echigo lines, and City Hall is a two-minute walk from it.

People living here: 81,526people
Area: 442.02km²
Households: 33,904households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,470yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 55 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-05-01 に編入合併（高柳町・西山町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —28 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 5 municipalities.

Kashiwazaki City in Japan37.365°N 138.558°E

Territory of Kashiwazaki City

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

40.4km

刈羽村, 上越市, 長岡市, 十日町市, 出雲崎町

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

Kashiwazaki City isthis kind of town.

01Oginoshima, a village about 3.5 km into the hills from central Takayanagi, has thatched houses scattered in a ring around the paddies, which the city calls rare even in Japan; it was chosen as one of Japan's 100 rural landscapes in 1991
02Ayako-mai has been handed down in Onadani for about 500 years and is carried on by the two troupes of Takanda and Shimono; it became a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1976 and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2022
03The sea lies right in front of the platform at Omigawa Station, on a coast chosen as one of Japan's 100 Beaches, and Shiiya has the site of the Shiiya domain's 10,000-koku residence and a thatched Kannon hall up 300 steps

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kashiwazaki City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗