Tagami Town

Nuts are said to bear thread-hole marks.

Tsunagigaya of Ryogen-an

Photo by Siriusplot (Public domain)

01 ／ Chinju-so

Built without a single nail,its eaves rest on a Yoshino cedar of about 20 m.

A detached annex of the house of the Tamaki family, wealthy Echigo landowners, and a town-designated tangible cultural property. The Chinju-so website says the building was planned in 1897 with the temple carpenter Matsui Kakuhei as master builder and completed over about three and a half years from 1914. No nails were used, and the Yoshino cedar eaves girder, 11 and a half ken (about 20 m) long, is said to have been carried by sea and up the Shinano River.

Town-designated tangible cultural property
No nails used
Eaves girder: Yoshino cedar, 11.5 ken (about 20 m)

02 ／ Dankuro Legend and Mount Gomado

A mujina named Dankuro is said to havecarried a midwife on his back, upside down.

Several Dankuro legends are told on Mount Gomado. In one the town tells, Dankuro, disguised as a young man, goes to fetch a midwife and carries her upside down on his back to his cave, so as not to be found out and to keep twigs out of her eyes. As thanks he gives her a short sword, said to remain in her descendants' house today. About 30,000 hydrangeas grow near the summit.

A mujina named Dankuro
Short sword said to remain with the midwife's descendants
About 30,000 hydrangeas near the summit

03 ／ Gyoyazaki Site

Over 90% of the finds date to the Asuka period;clay figures and horses for rites were found.

The Gyoyazaki site in Yukawa was excavated in 2013 for a National Route 403 road improvement. It lies on an old river channel and natural levee on the right bank of the Shinano River. The site report abstract in the national database records clay figures, clay horses, ritual stakes and other items related to rites. The 77 finds were designated by the prefecture in 2017.

Over 90% of finds date to the Asuka period
Clay figures, clay horses, ritual stakes
77 finds designated by the prefecture

Living here

Forest to the east, farmland and the Shinano River to the west.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

Tagami lies southeast of Niigata City. The town describes forest in the east, farmland and the Shinano River in the west, and housing in the center. The JR Shin'etsu Main Line and National Route 403 run north to south through the center, and the line has Tagami and Hanyuda stations.

People living here: 11,227people
Area: 31.71km²
Households: 3,990households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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 3 municipalities.

Tagami Town in Japan37.699°N 139.058°E

Territory of Tagami 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

7.6km

新潟市, 加茂市, 五泉市

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

Tagami Town isthis kind of town.

01The Tsunagigaya of Ryogen-an, a national Natural Monument and one of the Seven Wonders of Echigo, is marked by new shoots whose leaves are reversed front to back, and its nuts are said to bear thread-hole marks
02Chinju-so is the Tamaki family's detached annex, and Mount Gomado has the legend of the mujina Dankuro and a Tsunagigaya growing area that is a national Natural Monument
03The 77 Gyoyazaki site finds are designated by the prefecture, and Hanyuda Shrine's name appears in a shrine register of 927, its grounds said to be the site of the Hanyuda manor

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tagami Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗