Tainai City

The pond's black oil, taken with ferns.

Kusozu Aburatsubo, kaguma oil

Photo by Drph17 (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Jonoyama Tomb

In a boat-shaped coffin,a magatama of jade from Itoigawa.

The small hill known as Hitokago-yama and Otsuka-yama is an oval-shaped round tomb, 41 m east-west, 35 m north-south and 5 m high. In the 2012 investigation of the coffin, a boat-shaped wooden coffin about 8 m long yielded three yuki quivers and one dragon-pattern bronze mirror. The city records that the jade magatama and tubular beads are of jade from Itoigawa.

41 m by 35 m
Boat-shaped coffin, about 8 m long
3 quivers, 1 bronze mirror

02 ／ Oppo-ji three-story pagoda

Interior and exterior ornament left out,a pagoda in the pure Japanese style.

乙宝寺三重塔.jpeg — Photo by Pseudoanas (Public domain)

The prefecture's tourism site records that Murakami Tadakatsu, lord of Murakami Castle, sponsored its construction, and describes the style as a pure Japanese-style three-story pagoda with ornament left out inside and out. The Agency for Cultural Affairs dates it to the fifth year of Genna (1619) and describes a three-bay, three-story pagoda with a shingled roof. The nine-ring finial at the top bears an inscription of a reconstruction in the Jokyo era (1684-87). It is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property.

National Important Cultural Property
Sponsored by Murakami Tadakatsu
Three-bay, three-story, shingled roof

03 ／ Model ships and ship votive plaques

A ship for rainy days, a ship for fair days.Kitamaebune models hauled at the festival.

At Arakawa Shrine in Momozakihama are two model ships that shipwrights made at the order of the owner when a Kitamaebune cargo ship was newly built. They are the Amebune of 1768 and the Hiyoribune of 1850, hauled on a festival float in autumn and used according to rain or fair weather. With the 85 ship votive plaques they are a national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

Amebune, 1768
Hiyoribune, 1850
85 plaques; Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property

Living here

A market opens on days with a 3 or an 8.

about 30,000 people

Tainai was formed on 1 September 2005 by the merger of Nakajo Town and Kurokawa Village. On the city emblem, blue stands for the Sea of Japan, the green triangle for the Kushigata and Iide mountains, and the white crescent for the Tainai River. The Nakajo Market (the 3-and-8 market) is held from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. on days ending in 3 or 8 (the schedule changes in August). The gateway is Nakajo Station on the JR Uetsu Main Line.

People living here: 28,509people
Area: 264.89km²
Households: 10,305households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,040yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 23 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Tainai City in Japan38.060°N 139.410°E

Territory of Tainai 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

32.1km

Niigata Prefecture: 新発田市, 関川村, 村上市
Yamagata Prefecture: 小国町

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

Tainai City isthis kind of town.

01Kurokawa's Kusozu Aburatsubo, a national historic site, is a black pond where crude oil that seeped up from a shallow oil-bearing layer has collected; the Nihon Shoki's "burning water" is said to refer to Kurokawa, and the oil was taken with kaguma, a tool made of bundled ferns
02At Jonoyama Tomb a yuki quiver and a dragon-pattern mirror came out of a boat-shaped wooden coffin, Oppo-ji Temple has a three-story pagoda that is a national Important Cultural Property, and Arakawa Shrine in Momozakihama preserves two model Kitamaebune ships and 85 ship votive plaques
03The national historic site Okuyama Estate castle and mansion sites is made up of castle, religious and production sites of a medieval manor; Kusozu Aburatsubo is one of them, and in Nakajo the 3-and-8 market opens on days with a 3 or an 8

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tainai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗