Nasu Town

A stone, split in two.

Sessho-seki, the Killing Stone

Photo by Miyuki Meinaka (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Pass deity

At a border pass on the old Tosando road,a shrine worshipped as the pass's deity.

Oiwake-no-Myojin (Sumiyoshi Tamatsushima Shrine) is said to have been enshrined in 791 by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, and was worshipped as the deity of a pass on the border of the Tosando road. The town's guide map also records that Sakai-no-Myojin (Tamatsushima Shrine) has long been worshipped as a pass deity.

Said to be enshrined in 791
Pass deity on the Tosando border
Enshrined: Nakatsutsu-no-o and Sotoori-hime

02 ／ Old house

Beside the Seki road, the houseof a rotating village head and post-station agent.

The Mimori family house in Iono stands on the Seki road. It was the home of a village head who served in rotation and also acted as a post-station agent. The thatched, hip-roofed main house dates from 1733 and the gatehouse from 1902, and both buildings are Important Cultural Properties.

Important Cultural Property (designated 1968)
Main house: 1733
Gate: 1902

03 ／ Milestone mounds

Two milestone mounds still standon either side of the old Oshu road.

According to the town's guide map, the Meotoishi ichirizuka dates from around the opening of the Oshu road, late May 1604, and is the 43rd milestone mound counting from Edo's Nihonbashi. Two mounds remain, one on each side of the old Oshu road. The town has more ichirizuka at Itaya and Izumida.

Two mounds on either side of the old Oshu road
43rd from Nihonbashi
Around late May 1604

Living here

About 1 hour 40 minutes by car from Tokyo to Nasu IC.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town gives about 1 hour 40 minutes from Tokyo to Nasu IC on the Tohoku Expressway, and about 25 to 30 minutes from Nasu IC to Ashino and Iono on Route 4 and prefectural roads. By train, take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station, change at Kuroiso Station on the Tohoku Line, and ride about 10 minutes to Kurodahara Station (times are between stations and exclude transfers and waiting).

People living here: 23,956people
Area: 372.34km²
Households: 9,110households
Rent (average for rentals): 10,597yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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 across 1 prefectures.

Nasu Town in Japan37.020°N 140.121°E

Territory of Nasu 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

25.9km

Tochigi Prefecture: 那須塩原市, 大田原市
Fukushima Prefecture: 西郷村, 白河市, 棚倉町

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

Nasu Town isthis kind of town.

01Sessho-seki at Yumoto, a site tied to the legend of the nine-tailed fox, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty as one of the Scenic Places of the Narrow Road to the Deep North. The tourism association records that it split in two in March 2022
02At Iono, the town's guide map records Oiwake-no-Myojin as a shrine worshipped as a pass deity on the Tosando border, said to have been enshrined by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
03Iono has the Mimori family house, an Important Cultural Property that was the home of a rotating village head and post-station agent, and Ashino has the Meotoishi ichirizuka, with two mounds on either side of the old Oshu road

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

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