Fujimino City

The 1937 village office still stands.

Former Ōi village office

Photo by Newkaisoku1995 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ River trade

Cargo boats plied this riverall the way to Edo.

Fukuoka Kashi (福岡河岸), a river landing on the Shingashi River (新河岸川), began around 1733 when villagers started carrying cargo alongside their farming. The boat agent Fukudaya (福田屋) opened in 1831, and its buildings have been a memorial museum since 1996. Its three-storey wooden annex, said to have been built around 1900 by the tenth head, Hoshino Senzō (星野仙蔵), to entertain guests, is the only one of its kind left as a residence in the prefecture.

Began around 1733
Museum since 1996
Only three-storey wooden house of its kind in the prefecture

02 ／ Tanabata

About 250 bamboo decorationsfill the station shopping streets.

Tanabata was once a rite in farming Fukuoka village to pray for a good harvest. After the war, shops and the chamber of commerce began putting up decorations, and by the early 1950s there was a decoration contest too. Today about 250 bamboo decorations line the streets around Kami-Fukuoka Station, and around 170,000 people come over the two days each year. The 2026 festival was the 72nd.

About 250 bamboo decorations
About 170,000 visitors in two days
72nd festival in 2026

03 ／ Votive plaques

A tengu and a crow tengu face off,among the oldest ema in the prefecture.

長宮氷川神社.JPG — Photo by あ四タ (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Nagamiya Hikawa Shrine (長宮氷川神社) keeps the Mukai Tengu-zu Ema (向かい天狗図絵馬), a votive plaque offered in the Kan'ei era (1624–1644). On a board 68 cm tall and 92 cm wide, a red-faced tengu and a green crow tengu face each other, fans in hand; it is among the oldest ema in the prefecture. Three large plaques offered in the early Edo period by the Fuse (布施氏), hatamoto lords of Fukuoka village, are also city cultural properties.

Offered in the Kan'ei era
68 cm by 92 cm
Three large plaques from the Fuse

Living here

About 30 minutes from Ikebukuro on the Tōjō Line.

about 110,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The city's gateway is Kami-Fukuoka Station on the Tobu Tojo Line, about 30 minutes from Ikebukuro. City Hall is about a 15-minute walk from the east exit. The 1937 Ōi village office (大井村役場) on the Kawagoe Kaidō (川越街道) went on to serve as a police station, elementary school classrooms and a storehouse for cultural properties after the office moved, and became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2002.

People living here: 113,597people
Area: 14.64km²
Households: 49,395households
Rent (average for rentals): 63,555yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 69 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —20 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.

Fujimino City in Japan35.880°N 139.520°E

to IkebukuroTobu Tojo Line30min

Travel times follow 市公式「市役所への交通アクセス」（資産管理課、2020-03-02 更新）に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Fujimino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.6km

川越市, 富士見市, 三芳町

Fujimino City isthis kind of town.

01The 1937 Ōi village office on the Kawagoe Kaidō survives as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, and at Fukuoka Kashi on the Shingashi River, the Meiji-era buildings of the boat agent Fukudaya stand as a memorial museum
02About 250 bamboo decorations fill the streets around Kami-Fukuoka Station for the Tanabata festival, which draws about 170,000 people over two days
03Nagamiya Hikawa Shrine keeps the Mukai Tengu-zu Ema, offered in the Kan'ei era and among the oldest votive plaques in the prefecture

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fujimino City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗