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25425 ／あいしょうちょう

Shiga Prefecture 愛知郡

Aisho Town

Upturned eaves on a late-Kamakura gate.

Toyomitsu Shrine, Flag Deity

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Burial mounds

One cluster of mounds,two kinds of stone chamber.

The Kamigano burial mound cluster, on the right bank of the Uso River, once had 102 mounds, and ten are preserved in the park. Its stone chambers are of two kinds: the usual side-entrance type, and a stepped type thought to show the influence of continental culture. At a ruined temple site in the town, a wooden tablet was found with characters including Hata written over and over.

102 mounds once
Two chamber types
Tablet with Hata and other characters

02 ／ Thousand Jizō

Along the path to the main hall,a thousand Jizō statues stand.

From the main gate of Kongōrin-ji to the main hall is about 500 m. Along that approach stand 1,000 Jizō statues, with 900 more beside it, set up by people from across the country who had formed ties with the temple, each with their own wishes. Every year on 9 August, lanterns are lit at the Thousand Jizō festival. The temple also holds Important Cultural Property Buddhist statues, such as the seated Jie Daishi.

1,000 on the approach
900 beside it
Every 9 August

03 ／ Shidare Canal

A merchant born in an Aisho villagehelped build a canal in Aichi.

Nishizawa Shinzo was born in 1844 into a hemp-cloth wholesaler's family in a village in what is now Aisho. The Shidare Canal is an irrigation canal that carries water from the Yahagi River to about 1,600 ha in Toyota, Chiryu and Miyoshi. In 1887 the Mikawa Canal Office was opened, and Shinzo became its chairman. A study, however, notes that the canal was not built by one person alone.

Born 1844
About 1,600 ha
Canal office, 1887

Living here

From a Nakasendō post town to the foothills of the Suzuka range.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town was formed in 2006 by the merger of Hatasho and Echigawa, in Echi District. It includes Echigawa-juku, a post town that prospered on the Nakasendō in the Edo period, and it stretches to the foothills of the Suzuka mountains. Echigawa Station on the Ohmi Railway is the only station in the town, and there is no JR station. It is the gateway.

People living here: 20,893people
Area: 37.97km²
Households: 7,841households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,348yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 11 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.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Aisho Town in Japan35.169°N 136.212°E

Territory of Aisho Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

6.9km

東近江市, 豊郷町, 多賀町, 彦根市, 甲良町

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

Aisho Town isthis kind of town.

01Toyomitsu Shrine is known as the Flag Deity; it has a late-Kamakura Important Cultural Property gate, and tradition says many warriors, beginning with Minamoto no Yoritomo, took bamboo from the shrine grounds for their flagpoles
02The Kamigano burial mound cluster is a prefectural historic site with two kinds of stone chamber, and a ruined temple site in the town yielded a wooden tablet with characters including Hata written over and over
03Rows of Thousand Jizō line the approach to Kongōrin-ji, whose main hall is a National Treasure, and Nishizawa Shinzo, who took part in building the Shidare Canal in Aichi, was born in this town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Aisho Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗