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Yashio City

Rained on so often, it's the "muddy lion".

Ōze lion dance

Photo by Ebiebi2 (CC0)

01 ／ Flowering peach

Peach trees in a merchants' gardenbecame the city flower.

中川やしおフラワーパーク.jpg — Photo by Komachan840 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1997 the Yashio Chamber of Commerce and Industry led the opening of the Nakagawa Yashio Flower Park (中川やしおフラワーパーク) on about 13,000 m² of the Naka River's floodplain. In mid-March the flowering peach (hanamomo, 花桃) blooms above a carpet of yellow rapeseed. As the flowering peach festival took root as a spring event, the city drew up its "Peach Blossom Paradise of the Capital Region" plan (首都圏桃源郷づくり構想) in 2013, and in 2014 it added the flowering peach as a city flower.

Opened in 1997
About 13,000 m²
City flower, 2014

02 ／ Vegetables

The turnip hardly anyone growsstayed among the "eight vegetables".

In 2008, with a nod to the "eight" (八) in Yashio's name, the city chose eight vegetables, including komatsuna, edamame and negi leeks, as its specialities. Komatsuna has been grown here since the Shōwa 30s (1955–64) and is the city's main vegetable. When the list was reviewed, some proposed dropping Tennōji turnip (天王寺かぶ), which is now barely planted, but it was kept as part of the area's old food culture.

Eight vegetables chosen in 2008
Komatsuna since 1955–64
Tennōji turnip kept on the list

03 ／ Lion dance and yumibuchi

The "muddy lions" dance,and arrows read the year.

The Ōze lion dance (大瀬の獅子舞), a prefectural designation, shows a family of three lions on their way up Mount Fuji; because it so often rains, it is also called the "muddy lion" (どろんこ獅子). At the Kizone yumibuchi (木曽根の弓ぶち), people shoot at targets to read the year's weather and harvest, and until the war the two sides traded insults in song. In 2026 the yumibuchi, too, became a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Ōze lion dance: prefectural designation
The "muddy lion"
Yumibuchi designated too, 2026

Living here

17 minutes to Akihabara on the Tsukuba Express.

about 90,000 people

Since Yashio Station on the Tsukuba Express opened in August 2005, the city's population has kept growing. Akihabara Station is 17 minutes away at the fastest, and since March 2024 rapid trains also stop here. City Hall is reached by bus from the north exit of Yashio Station. The city borders Misato to the east and Tokyo's Adachi and Katsushika wards to the south.

People living here: 93,363people
Area: 18.02km²
Households: 42,183households
Rent (average for rentals): 67,014yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 45 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Yashio City in Japan35.822°N 139.839°E

to AkihabaraTsukuba Express17min

Travel times follow 市のシティプロモーションのページ「イチオシ！ヤシオシ」に載っている値。首都圏新都市鉄道の2024年3月16日改正（快速が八潮駅に停車）以降のダイヤで、2026-09-24 の経路検索でも合っている (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Yashio City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.5km

Saitama Prefecture: 草加市, 三郷市
Tokyo: 足立区, 葛飾区

Yashio City isthis kind of town.

01The Ōze lion dance, called the "muddy lion", and the Kizone yumibuchi, an archery rite that reads the year ahead, are prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Properties
02The flowering peach of a flower park that local merchants opened on the Naka River floodplain became a city flower in 2014
03It named "Yashio's eight vegetables", such as komatsuna and edamame, and kept Tennōji turnip on the list though few now grow it

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yashio City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗