Miyashiro Town

From "what on earth?" to the town's pride.

Shinshūkan, Team Zoo

Photo by 京浜にけ (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Architecture

Shinshūkan and Kasahara School:both built by Team Zoo.

Shinshūkan (進修館), a community center built to mark the town's 25th anniversary, opened in 1980 to a design by Team Zoo (象設計集団), later known for Nago City Hall in Okinawa. At first it drew a stream of complaints; today it is also a filming location for TV dramas. Kasahara Elementary School (笠原小学校), finished the following year in 1981, is by the same group and is said to have "changed school architecture".

Shinshūkan opened, 1980
Built for the town's 25th anniversary
Kasahara Elementary School, 1981

02 ／ Atarashii Mura

They broke up the concrete banksand gave the channels back their earth.

Under its plan for "town-making with farming" (農のあるまちづくり), from 1998 the town developed the Yamazaki area as Atarashii Mura (新しい村, "the New Village"). Concrete banks were broken up into earthen channels and straight roads bent into S-curves, and at residents' urging the hottsuke-da (ほっつけ田), paddies raised from soil dug out of the marsh, were restored. In 2001 the farm stand Mori no Ichiba Yui (森の市場結) opened.

Developed from 1998
Hottsuke-da paddies restored
Mori no Ichiba Yui, 2001

03 ／ Town name

The town's name takesone character from each of two shrines.

Miyashiro was born in 1955 when the villages of Monma (百間) and Suka (須賀) merged. Its name takes 宮 (miya) from Himemiya Shrine (姫宮神社), the chief shrine of Monma, and 代 (shiro) from Konoshiro Shrine (身代神社), the chief shrine of Suka. The grounds of Himemiya Shrine hold a burial mound thought to date from the early 7th century, and the oldest record of the name Monma is an inscription dated 1414 on a waniguchi (鰐口) gong.

Two villages merged, 1955
宮 from Himemiya Shrine
代 from Konoshiro Shrine

Living here

40 minutes by express from Kita-Senju.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

The Tobu Skytree Line runs the length of the town, with three stations: Himemiya, Tōbu-dōbutsu-kōen and Wado. From Kita-Senju it is about 40 minutes by express to Tōbu-dōbutsu-kōen Station, which was renamed from Sugito Station in 1981 when Tobu Zoo opened. Shinshūkan, next to the town office, is a 5-minute walk from the station's west exit.

People living here: 34,147people
Area: 15.95km²
Households: 14,572households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,627yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

Miyashiro Town in Japan36.023°N 139.723°E

to Kita-SenjuTobu Skytree Line40min

Travel times follow 町公式「電車で宮代へ」（2023-02-21 更新）の「急行・・・『北千住』から約40分」（着く駅は東武動物公園） (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Miyashiro Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.7km

杉戸町, 白岡市, 春日部市, 久喜市

Miyashiro Town isthis kind of town.

01Shinshūkan, designed by Team Zoo for the town's 25th anniversary, began with complaints and is now a source of local pride
02Atarashii Mura turned concrete banks back into earthen channels and restored the hottsuke-da paddies
03The town's name takes one character each from Himemiya and Konoshiro shrines, the chief shrines of the two merged villages

See the town as it is now.

X@miyashiro_machi ↗

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miyashiro Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗