Hino Town

Wall windows open on festival day.

Sajikimado, Hino Festival window

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Imo-kurabe Festival

East and west districts comparetaro from root to leaf tip.

At this Omi-Nakayama festival, the Higashi-tani and Nishi-tani districts ritually compare the length of the tonoimo, a kind of taro, from root to leaf tip. Young men and boys carry taro decorated on bamboo poles to the Nogamiyama grounds and sit on either side of the Imo-ishi, the taro stone. It is said that if the west wins the harvest will be good, and if the east wins, poor.

First Sunday of September, per the town
Higashi-tani and Nishi-tani districts
Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1991

02 ／ Bessho Takashikozo

Iron gathered around buried roots and twigsand became a mineral like a chikuwa tube.

Takashikozo from Bessho formed when iron dissolved in groundwater attached to plant roots and twigs and settled; the town calls it a mineral like a chikuwa, a fish-paste tube. It comes out of the Ancient Lake Biwa Formation, and the town's plan gives its dense occurrence as the reason for designation. It became a National Natural Monument in 1944.

National Natural Monument, 1944
From the Ancient Lake Biwa Formation
Iron on roots and twigs

03 ／ Hidarimakigaya

A torreya whose seed groovestwist left or right, not straight.

The seeds of an ordinary kaya have straight grooves, but those of the Kumano kaya spiral to the left or the right. The Agency for Cultural Affairs' explanation at the time of designation also notes the seeds are long and large, says the trees were scattered near houses in Kumano, and suggests they were moved from mountains nearby. It became a National Natural Monument in 1922.

National Natural Monument, 1922
Seed grooves spiral left or right
Perhaps moved from the mountains

Living here

One railway station: Hino, on the Ohmi Railway.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Hino is a town in Gamo District, and Hino Station on the Ohmi Railway Main Line is its only railway station. The town says that from Hino Station, the Ohmi Railway Bus Hachi line, the town bus and the reservation-based shared ride service Choisoko Hino reach the town office.

People living here: 20,964people
Area: 117.6km²
Households: 7,932households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,073yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 14 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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 2 municipalities.

Hino Town in Japan35.018°N 136.246°E

Territory of Hino 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

12.5km

甲賀市, 東近江市

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

Hino Town isthis kind of town.

01The sajikimado is a window opened on the day of the Hino Festival, the spring festival of Umamioka Watamuki Shrine, set in the garden walls of houses facing the street the procession and floats pass; inside it a viewing platform is built in the front garden and covered with red felt and bamboo blinds. The town adds that it is now also opened during the Sajikimado Art and Hina Doll Festival periods
02The Omi-Nakayama Imo-kurabe Festival is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that what is compared is rare even by nationwide standards. The town has five National Natural Monuments; at Kaigakedani, the town writes, Honshakunage rhododendrons, which normally grow at altitude, grow in clusters at low elevation, which is rare even nationwide
03The Hino Festival is designated a prefectural intangible folk cultural property as Hino Hikiyama Festival, and the town says 16 festival floats survive, the most in the prefecture. The eve is held on May 2 and the main festival on May 3 each year

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hino Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗