Fujimi City

A 6,000-year-old village, now a park.

Mizuko Shell Mound

Photo by 京浜にけ at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ The name

From anywhere in the village,Mount Fuji stood to the west.

When the three villages of Tsuruse, Nanbata and Mizutani merged in 1956, the new village was named Fujimi (富士見, "Fuji view"), chosen over proposals such as Jōhoku, Mitsuwa and Irumano. The reason: from anywhere in the village you could see Mount Fuji far to the west. Mount Fuji also sits at the centre of the city emblem, and the city still lists nine spots, from the Arakawa embankment to its bridges, where the mountain can be seen.

Fujimi Village, 1956
Mount Fuji at the centre of the emblem
Nine viewing spots

02 ／ Shell mound

About 50 small shell heapsonce lay in a ring.

The Mizuko Shell Mound (水子貝塚) dates from the Early Jōmon period, about 6,500 to 5,500 years ago. A 1967 survey confirmed about 50 small shell heaps, showing that the village was laid out in a ring. It became a National Historic Site in 1969 and opened as a park in 1994. Five pit dwellings have been rebuilt, and white ceramic chips mark where the shell heaps lay.

About 50 heaps in a ring
National Historic Site, 1969
Five pit dwellings rebuilt

03 ／ Castle site

A lowland castleringed by three moats.

Nanbata Castle (難波田城) is thought to be the residence of the Nanbata clan, who were based in what is now Fujimi in the Middle Ages. Built on the Arakawa lowland, it was a flatland castle surrounded by three moats and earthworks. In the Sengoku period, Nanbata Danjō served as a senior retainer of the Ōgigayatsu Uesugi clan. In 2000 part of the site became a park with its moats and gates rebuilt, and two farmhouses from 1871 were moved to its west side.

Three moats and earthworks
Prefectural Historic Site, 1961
Park opened 2000

Living here

Three Tojo Line stations, within 30 minutes of Ikebukuro.

about 110,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The city has three stations on the Tobu Tojo Line, Mizuhodai, Tsuruse and Fujimino, and says all three are within 30 minutes of Ikebukuro. Fujimino Station, opened in 1993, is in Fujimi City, not in neighbouring Fujimino City. City Hall is a 20-minute walk from the east exit of Tsuruse Station.

People living here: 111,859people
Area: 19.77km²
Households: 50,979households
Rent (average for rentals): 63,496yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 64 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —18 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Fujimi City in Japan35.857°N 139.549°E

to IkebukuroTobu Tojo Line30min

Travel times follow 市公式「富士見市のプロフィール」（2026-03-05 更新）の「市内交通」と、市公式PRサイト「アクセス」の「電車で行こう！」に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Fujimi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.8km

ふじみ野市, 志木市, 三芳町, さいたま市, 川越市

Fujimi City isthis kind of town.

01The Mizuko Shell Mound, an Early Jōmon site where about 50 small shell heaps lie in a ring, is now a park and a National Historic Site
02Named because Mount Fuji could be seen to the west from anywhere in the village, it still puts Mount Fuji at the centre of its emblem
03A park with rebuilt moats and gates stands on the site of the Nanbata clan's flatland castle, once ringed by three moats

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fujimi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗