Yoshimi Town

219 tombs cut into one hillside.

Yoshimi Hyakuana

Photo by 京浜にけ at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Yoshimi Hyakuana

At the end of the Kofun period,they dug graves into the hill.

Yoshimi Hyakuana (吉見百穴, "Hundred Holes of Yoshimi") is a group of cave tombs dug into a hillside of soft tuffaceous sandstone between the late 6th and late 7th centuries. 219 tombs can still be counted, and the site became a National Historic Site in 1923. Inside the holes grows luminous moss (hikarigoke), extremely rare on the Kantō Plain; its habitat is a National Natural Monument.

219 cave tombs
National Historic Site, 1923
Luminous moss habitat: National Natural Monument

02 ／ Strawberries

Number one in the prefecturefor strawberries.

Strawberry growing in Yoshimi began in the Shōwa 30s (1955–64), and the town now grows more than anywhere else in Saitama. The town mascot, the roadside station and the nickname of the civic hall all take their names from the strawberry. Michi-no-Eki Ichigo no Sato Yoshimi (道の駅いちごの里よしみ) draws more than a million visitors a year, and strawberry picking runs from January to May.

Largest harvest in the prefecture
Grown since the Shōwa 30s
Over a million visitors a year to the roadside station

03 ／ Yoshimi Kannon

Once a year,to the Kannon at 2 a.m.

Iwadonosan Anraku-ji (岩殿山安楽寺) is temple No. 11 of the Bandō 33 Kannon pilgrimage and has long been known as Yoshimi Kannon. Its three-storey pagoda, built in the Kan'ei era, stands about 24.3 m tall. At the Yakuyoke Asa-Kannon (厄除け朝観音) on 18 June each year, stalls line the long approach from around 2 a.m., selling the traditional yakuyoke dango (luck-warding dumplings).

Bandō pilgrimage temple No. 11
Pagoda about 24.3 m tall
Yakuyoke Asa-Kannon on 18 June

Living here

No station: buses from Higashi-Matsuyama and Kōnosu.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in town. For the town office, take a Kawagoe Kankō bus from Higashi-Matsuyama Station on the Tobu Tojo Line or Kōnosu Station on the JR Takasaki Line, get off at Kubota (久保田) and walk about 5 minutes. From Kōnosu Station the bus takes about 15 minutes to the Ichigo no Sato Yoshimi roadside station. By car, the town office is about 15 minutes from Higashi-Matsuyama IC on the Kan-Etsu Expressway. The town covers 38.64 km².

People living here: 18,192people
Area: 38.64km²
Households: 6,864households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,880yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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 5 municipalities.

Yoshimi Town in Japan36.040°N 139.454°E

Territory of Yoshimi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.1km

東松山市, 鴻巣市, 熊谷市, 川島町, 北本市

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

Yoshimi Town isthis kind of town.

01At Yoshimi Hyakuana, 219 cave tombs dug into a hillside at the end of the Kofun period survive, with luminous moss growing inside
02Strawberries, grown since the Shōwa 30s, are the biggest crop in the prefecture, and the Ichigo no Sato Yoshimi roadside station draws over a million visitors a year
03At Yoshimi Kannon, Bandō pilgrimage temple No. 11, the approach fills with stalls from around 2 a.m. for the Yakuyoke Asa-Kannon on 18 June

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yoshimi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗