Haga Town

Past the torii, a main hall from 1770.

Ubagai Shrine

Photo by Miyuki Meinaka (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Water channel

Admitted to the irrigation association,they began digging in 1706.

Short of water, the farmers of Higashimizunuma asked their lord in 1690 for a share of the Itado irrigation channel, and were refused. After continued negotiation they were admitted to the Itado irrigation association in 1706, and work on the channel began. The headman Okada Sozan put in his own money, and in 1806, the channel's 100th anniversary, his great-grandson raised a monument.

Asked for a share of water, 1690
Channel work began, 1706
Monument raised, 1806

02 ／ Memorial towers

Memorial towers for the tenth shogun, Ieharu,stand on a terrace above the Gogyo River.

On the terrace east of the Gogyo River, at the site of Hannya-ji Temple (founded 820), stand a memorial tower to Tokugawa Ieharu (424 cm tall) and one to Tayasu Munetake (313 cm), facing south. Ieharu's adopted daughter Tane, Munetake's daughter, had them built, and both bear the hollyhock crest. A memorial tablet records Ieharu's last wish, entrusting prayers to Tane.

Ieharu's tower: 424 cm
Munetake's tower: 313 cm
Hannya-ji founded 820

03 ／ Tumulus

On a tumulus like a crawling turtle cub,a shrine stands.

Built at the eastern end of the Hoshakuji plateau between the Gogyo and Kinu rivers, this tumulus looks like a crawling turtle cub, and has long been called Turtle-Cub Hill. It is about 56.3 m long. Gyoji Shrine is enshrined on its summit, and an approach path runs from the narrow waist of the mound to the end of the front section. It is thought to date from the early Kofun period.

About 56.3 m long
Shrine on the summit
Thought to be early Kofun period

Living here

About 40 minutes from Utsunomiya Station East Exit.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

There is no JR station in town. The town directs visitors from the east exit of Utsunomiya Station to the Haga Industrial Park Management Center stop in town, about 40 minutes, and the town office is about 5 km from there. From the transit center, a 5-minute walk away, visitors continue by on-demand taxi or similar. The on-demand taxi Fureai Taxi Hibari requires prior registration. Children's medical care is free from birth until the end of the school year in which they turn 18.

People living here: 14,961people
Area: 70.16km²
Households: 5,230households
Rent (average for rentals): —
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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Haga Town in Japan36.548°N 140.058°E

Haga Industrial Park Management Center Stop — 芳賀町工業団地管理センター前停留場2023

to UtsunomiyaUtsunomiya Light Rail39min

Travel times follow 町公式「交通・アクセス」（総務課。2026-04-02 更新）の『【LRT宇都宮駅東口停留場】→ LRT／芳賀町工業団地管理センター前停留場（約40分）』と、宇都宮ライトレール公式の停留場別時刻表（宇都宮駅東口・芳賀町工業団地管理センター前。『2026年4月1日改正』）を突き合わせた。公式の時刻表の下り（芳賀方面）で、宇都宮駅東口の各発車に対し管理センター前の通過時刻が平日は38分後・土日祝は39分後に揃う（平日73本が38分、土日祝71本が39分） (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Haga 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

14.1km

高根沢町, 市貝町, 宇都宮市, 真岡市

Haga Town isthis kind of town.

01In the town's centre, Ubagai Shrine has a main hall built in 1770 and designated by the prefecture; the place name Ubagai, written with characters meaning 'grandmother' and 'well', is said to come from the sacred spring water used for the birth bath of Shodo, the priest who opened Nikko, as the tradition is handed down (tourist association)
02At Karoke reservoir in Higashimizunuma, work to bring in water from the Kinu River began in 1706, and the 100-year monument was raised by the great-grandson of the headman Okada Sozan
03The town has memorial towers to the tenth shogun Ieharu at the Hannya-ji site, a shrine on the summit of a tumulus shaped like a turtle cub, and designated cultural properties such as a painting of a temple school (1827) and a temple gong inscribed in 1388

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Haga Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗