Yahiko Village

It can't be crossed. Gods are said to.

Tama no Hashi, Yahiko Shrine

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Tohashira Shrine Hall

The thatched, irimoya-roofed hall wasoffered by the lord of Nagaoka in 1694.

A subsidiary shrine within Yahiko Shrine, the hall is three bays wide and three deep, single-storied, with a thatched irimoya (hip-and-gable) roof, a gable-end entrance and a shingle-roofed porch. The village says the present hall was offered in 1694 by the Makino lord of Nagaoka Domain, and that its decorative carvings keep the style of the late Momoyama period. It was designated a national Important Cultural Property in 1917.

3 bays by 3 bays
1694
1917: national Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Yahiko Station Building

A terminal station built to evoke Yahiko Shrine,its building modeled on shrine architecture.

The village says Yahiko Station was built to evoke Yahiko Shrine and that the building imitates shrine architecture. It is the up-line terminus of the Yahiko Line.

Station building modeled on shrine architecture
Up-line terminus of the Yahiko Line

03 ／ Baba-sugi

A great cedar carrying an old woman's legendstands at the foot of the hill behind Hokoin Temple.

The cedar at the foot of the hill behind Hokoin Temple is said to be a thousand years old and is called Baba-sugi (baba means an old woman). The legend says that in 1079, after a dispute over the building of Yahiko Shrine, the grandmother (one account says mother) of a blacksmith became a demon and flew away, then reformed 80 years later after a high priest's sermon. It was designated a prefectural Natural Monument in 1952.

Said to be 1,000 years old
Prefectural Natural Monument (1952)
Legend of an old woman turned demon

Living here

A village with less snow, and a winter wind called "Yahiko-oroshi".

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

The village says that, within a prefecture of heavy snowfall, Yahiko gets relatively little: the first snow settles in late December in a normal year and melts by early March. From late autumn into winter, northwest and west-northwest winds are common, and they are known as "Yahiko-oroshi". The gateway is Yahagi Station on the Yahiko Line, the station nearest the village office.

People living here: 7,705people
Area: 25.17km²
Households: 2,605households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Yahiko Village in Japan37.691°N 138.855°E

Territory of Yahiko 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

6.9km

燕市, 新潟市, 長岡市

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

Yahiko Village isthis kind of town.

01Tama no Hashi, in the grounds of Yahiko Shrine, is described by the shrine as a bridge the gods cross; the village notes that it cannot be crossed, for reasons of belief and the bridge's structure, and that old records mention it in 711
02The lantern rite Toro-oshi and the bugaku court dances of Yahiko Shrine are a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; lanterns large and small follow the portable shrines, and the event has been held around July 25
03Beyond the shrine, the village designates the Inabazuka Kofun, a keyhole-shaped tomb mound of hand-mirror form, and the Former Takeishi Residence, a thatched farmhouse restored to its form of the Kyoho era

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yahiko Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗