11240 ／ さってし
Saitama PrefectureAbout 1,000 cherries, and rapeseed below.
Gongendō cherry bank01 ／ Cherry bank
Gongendō-zutsumi (権現堂堤) is the embankment of the Gongendō River, a branch of the Tone. In the Taishō era, 3,000 Somei-yoshino cherry trees were planted along about 6 km of it, but at the end of the war nearly all were cut down for fuel. In 1949 the town mayor and others planted 3,000 saplings along about 1 km of the bank, and about 1,000 of them still bloom today.
02 ／ Post town
Satte-juku (幸手宿) became the sixth post town on the Nikkō Kaidō in 1616, and the Onari-michi, the road the shōguns took to worship at Nikkō, joined it here. Facing the old Nikkō highway, the Kishimoto House main building (岸本家住宅主屋) is a late-Edo house of a family that brewed soy sauce. It won a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and in 2009 became the city's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
03 ／ Rice
Shiromemai (白目米) was chosen by Ushigome Chūzaemon, who governed Miyuki village (now the north of the city) from 1698, and sent to the shogunate, where it was said no other tribute rice came close. It falls over easily and yields only about two-thirds as much as Koshihikari. It vanished during and after the war, but in 1999 the city began growing it again from seed kept by the prefecture.
Living here
The city covers 33.93 km², 8.8 km east to west and 7.6 km north to south. The difference between its highest and lowest points is only 11.2 m, and the city says bicycles glide right along. Its station is Satte on the Tobu Nikko Line: about 40 minutes to Kita-Senju and about 90 to Shibuya, with some trains running through to both without a change.
−4.7% since 2015
58,172 → 50,066
33.92km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.2 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 市公式のシティプロモーション「幸手市ってこんなとこ」の「電車でのアクセス」の図に載っている、幸手駅から乗り換え無しで着く区間の値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
7.9km
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