Ogose Town

A town where some 20,000 plum trees bloom.

Ogose Bairin

Photo by Ebiebi2 (Public domain)

01 ／ Plum grove

A poet wrote the trip from the capitalwas worth it for these plums.

Ogose's plums are said to date from around 1350, when a Tenmangū shrine (today's Baien Shrine, 梅園神社) was brought here from Dazaifu in Kyushu and plum trees were planted in honour of Sugawara no Michizane. In the Edo period fresh plums were shipped to Edo, and in 1901 the poet Sasaki Nobutsuna visited. Ogose Bairin (越生梅林), one of the three great plum groves of Kantō, has about 1,000 trees on about 2 ha.

Said to date from around 1350
One of Kantō's three great plum groves
About 1,000 trees on about 2 ha

02 ／ Waterfalls

Falls where mountain ascetics trainedstill drop in three places at Kuroyama.

Kuroyama Santaki (黒山三滝) is the name for three falls: the two-tiered Odaki (男滝, 11.2 m) and Medaki (女滝, 4.5 m) on the Santaki River, a tributary of the Oppe River (越辺川), and Tengudaki (天狗滝, 13.6 m) a little downstream. They were opened in the Muromachi period as a training site for Shugendō ascetics and introduced to Edo in the late Edo period. In 1951 the area became Kuroyama Prefectural Natural Park.

Odaki falls 11.2 m
Tengudaki falls 13.6 m
Prefectural Natural Park, 1951

03 ／ Ōta Dōkan

A sprig of yamabuki instead of a raincoat:the village of Dōkan's tale.

Caught in a shower while hawking, the young Ōta Dōkan stopped at a house to borrow a straw raincoat, and a girl silently handed him a sprig of yamabuki (kerria). Only later did he learn the old poem behind it, lamenting that there was not a single raincoat, and he is said to have taken up poetry. The Den-Yamabuki-no-Sato (伝山吹の里), a Prefectural Historic Site, is now a historical park with a water mill and 2,500 kerria plants. Ryūonji (龍穏寺) holds the graves of Dōkan and his father.

Prefectural Historic Site Den-Yamabuki-no-Sato
2,500 kerria plants
Graves of Dōkan and his father at Ryūonji

Living here

Free school lunches; free medical care to 18.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town makes school lunches at elementary and junior high schools free, along with meal costs for children aged 3 and over at nurseries and kindergartens, and covers children's medical costs up to the end of the school year in which they turn 18. Ogose Station is served by the Tobu Ogose Line and the JR Hachikō Line; Ikebukuro is about 65 minutes away with a change to the Tobu Tojo Line at Sakado. About 70% of the town is mountains.

People living here: 11,029people
Area: 40.39km²
Households: 4,587households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Ogose Town in Japan35.965°N 139.294°E

Territory of Ogose Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.9km

毛呂山町, ときがわ町, 飯能市, 鳩山町

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

Ogose Town isthis kind of town.

01Plum trees said to have been planted with a Tenmangū shrine around 1350 bloom by the thousand at Ogose Bairin, counted among Kantō's three great plum groves
02Kuroyama Santaki, once a training site for Muromachi-period ascetics, falls as three waterfalls: Odaki, Medaki and Tengudaki
03The Yamabuki-no-Sato, where Ōta Dōkan's kerria tale is told, and Ryūonji, with the graves of Dōkan and his father, remain in town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ogose Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗