Tsubame City

You can pass under a 1922 weir's gates.

Old Arai Weir, Ohkouzu Channel

Photo by Drph17 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Meteorite

Said to have fallen in a paddy in Tominaga Village,it was named for the village name of the time, Yonozu.

On the evening of the 11th day of the 6th month of Tenpo 8 (13 July 1837), a meteorite is said to have fallen in Tominaga Village. The city records its weight as 31.65 kg. It was deposited with the Imperial Museum in 1899 and named Yonozu after the village's name at the time. The original is on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science, and a monument built in 1962 stands at the fall site.

Weight 31.65 kg, as recorded by the city
Said to have fallen in 1837 (Tenpo 8)
Monument at the fall site, 1962

02 ／ Private academy

Its creed was “study to help those in need”;its graduates worked for the Ohkouzu Diversion Channel.

Suzuki Buntai founded this private academy in Aozu Village in 1833 (Tenpo 4). With the creed “study to help those in need,” it sent out more than 1,000 students in about 80 years, until 1912. Some graduates urged government leaders and the Diet to build the Ohkouzu Diversion Channel. The city has designated the Chozenkan site monument and its collection of materials.

Founded 1833 (Tenpo 4)
1,000+ students in about 80 years
City-designated site and documents

03 ／ Monument

Its base uses concrete blocks of the Jizai Weir,on a monument marking the repair works' completion.

This stone monument marks the completion of the Shinano River repair works and is shaped after the Jizai Weir, which had sunk. Concrete blocks of the Jizai Weir were used for its base, and it stands on the extension of the axis of the old movable weir (1931). Along with an outline of the repair works, it bears words by Aoyama Akira, who was in overall charge of the works.

Base: concrete blocks of the Jizai Weir
Old movable weir, 1931
Words by Aoyama Akira

Living here

Yoshida's name comes from rice and millet; Bunsui's, from the diversion channel.

about 80,000 people

Tsubame was formed on 20 March 2006 by the merger of the former city of Tsubame and the towns of Yoshida and Bunsui. Yoshida, formed in 1954 by the merger of Yoshida, Yonozu and Aozu, took its name from the idea of growing rice and millet in a good field; Bunsui was named in praise of the Ohkouzu Diversion Channel. Gogoan on Mount Kugami is part of a prefecture-designated historic site, Ryokan Shugyochi. The city's gateway is Minami-Yoshida Station on the JR Echigo Line.

People living here: 77,201people
Area: 110.94km²
Households: 28,522households
Rent (average for rentals): 47,457yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 69 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-20 に新設合併（吉田町・分水町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —25 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.

Tsubame City in Japan37.673°N 138.882°E

Territory of Tsubame 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

15.4km

長岡市, 新潟市, 弥彦村, 三条市

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

Tsubame City isthis kind of town.

01The old Arai Weir, built in 1922 where the Shinano River divides from the Ohkouzu Diversion Channel, runs about 146 m on 26 piers and is preserved as a park whose gates can be passed under
02The Yonozu Meteorite Fall Site Monument, for a meteorite said to have fallen in Tominaga in 1837, and the monument to the Chozenkan academy in Aozu are both city-designated historic sites, designated on 13 February 1967
03Gogoan on Mount Kugami is part of the prefecture-designated historic site Ryokan Shugyochi, and the former Tsubame, Yoshida and Bunsui merged in 2006 to form the present city

See the town as it is now.

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

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