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22325 / かんなみちょう

Shizuoka Prefecture 田方郡

Kannami Town

Dairy cows, on top of a shifted earth.

Tanna Fault

Photo by Batholith (Public domain)

01 / Fault

An earthquake's shiftis still there: 2.6 metres.

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Photo by Σ64 (CC BY 3.0)

The Tanna Fault, which moved in the 1930 North Izu earthquake, is a national Natural Monument. At Tanna Fault Park (丹那断層公園) the fault cuts across stone walls and a waterway, and the horizontal offset of about 2.6 m can be seen as it was left. It is an active fault that moves roughly every 700 to 1,000 years.

  • 1930 North Izu earthquake
  • About 2.6 m of lateral offset
  • National Natural Monument

02 / Milk

Cows in the basinsince the early Meiji era.

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Photo by Batholith (Public domain)

In the Tanna Basin (丹那盆地), ringed by the Hakone hills, dairy farming began in the early Meiji era, and by then farmers were already peddling butter. Tanna milk (丹那牛乳) is a school-lunch staple across eastern Shizuoka. There is not a single traffic light in the basin.

  • Dairy since the early Meiji era
  • A school-lunch staple in eastern Shizuoka
  • No traffic lights in the basin

03 / Pass

A pass that once looked outover ten provinces.

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Photo by 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Jukkoku Pass (十国峠) takes its name from the ten old provinces, among them Izu, Suruga, Kai, Sagami and Awa, that could be seen from here. It stands 770 m high, a cable car climbs to the top, and on clear days you may see as far as the Bōsō Peninsula. It became a Registered Monument in 2016.

  • 770 m high
  • Registered Monument
  • Cable car

Living here

13 minutes from Mishima on the Sunzu Line.

  • about 40,000 people
  • Rural district town

From Mishima Station the Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line takes 13 minutes to Izu-Nitta Station. The town's Kannami Station on the JR Tōkaidō Line sits between Atami and Mishima, both Shinkansen stops. The town runs a hot-spring facility, Yu-topia Kannami (湯~トピアかんなみ).

People living here
36,794people
19952020

−2.3% since 2015

37,375 → 36,794

Area
65.16km²

29.42km² of it habitable

2024

Households
14,780households

2.5 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
56,889yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
3 hospitals / 24 clinics

7.3 per 10,000 people

2023

Area65.16km²Habitable land29.42km² / 45%
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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Kannami Town in Japan35.089°N 138.953°E
OsakaKannami Town
Izu-Nitta Station
伊豆仁田駅2023
  • to MishimaIzuhakone Railway Sunzu Line13min

Travel times follow 静岡県の移住・定住サイト「ゆとりすと静岡」の函南町のページ(問い合わせ先は函南町企画財政課)に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kannami Town
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.5km

Shizuoka Prefecture
三島市, 伊豆の国市, 熱海市, 沼津市
Kanagawa Prefecture
湯河原町, 箱根町

Kannami Town isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The Tanna Fault, shifted 2.6 m by the 1930 earthquake, is still there to see
  2. 02Cows have been kept in the Tanna Basin since the early Meiji era, and Tanna milk is a school-lunch staple
  3. 03Jukkoku Pass, from which ten old provinces were said to be visible

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.