Nasukarasuyama City

Washi mountains, raised by human power.

Yamaage, Karasuyama

01 ／ Tensai

Dewa Sanzan pilgrims, the gyonin,pray on a platform in a temporary hut.

In the temple grounds a temporary hut is built, and Shinto priests, monks and gyonin, who are people who have made the pilgrimage to Dewa Sanzan, climb to the second-floor platform to pray to the gods and buddhas. Said to have been brought by a priest from Dewa in the Kyoho era, it is a nationally selected intangible folk cultural property.

Said to date from the Kyoho era
National selection No. 360, 1982
Second-floor platform

02 ／ Historic site

Beside the ruins of an ancient office,a small lane the locals call "Shogun Road".

The Chōjagadaira ruins are the remains of a Nara-to-Heian government office (kanga), covering about 220 m north to south and at least 350 m east to west. The Tōsandō road remains on the boundary between the city and Sakura, called "Shogun Road" locally, and is still a straight lane about 2 m wide. The designated area is shared with Sakura.

National Historic Site, 2009
About 220 m by 350 m or more
Shogun Road, about 2 m wide

03 ／ Bridge

Semicircular balconies sit symmetricallyon the piers of this arch bridge.

This deck arch bridge of reinforced concrete with open spandrels, 112.5 m long, crosses the gorge of the Naka River on the Hitachi-Ōta–Nasukarasuyama main local road. The present bridge is the third, completed in 1937. Its semicircular balconies on the piers are its signature, and it was recognized as a JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage in fiscal 2007.

Completed 1937
112.5 m long
JSCE Selected Heritage, FY2007

Living here

The Karasuyama Line ends at the town centre.

about 20,000 people

The JR Karasuyama Line links the city with Takanezawa, and the city describes it as a local line with one train an hour. Arriving at the terminus, Karasuyama Station, puts you in the city centre, from where the city bus and the Nakagawa Town community bus depart. On-demand transport also serves the whole city.

People living here: 24,875people
Area: 174.35km²
Households: 9,186households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,284yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Nasukarasuyama City in Japan36.657°N 140.151°E

Territory of Nasukarasuyama City

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

17.6km

Tochigi Prefecture: 那珂川町, 茂木町, 高根沢町, さくら市, 市貝町
Ibaraki Prefecture: 常陸大宮市

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

Nasukarasuyama City isthis kind of town.

01The Karasuyama Yamaage, in which "mountains" covered with washi are raised by hand at Yakumo Shrine's festival, is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and one of the Yama, Hoko, Yatai float festivals on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list
02The Hanawa Tensai, where pilgrims of Dewa Sanzan climb a platform, is a nationally selected intangible folk cultural property, and the Tosando road remains called "Shogun Road" are part of a National Historic Site with the ruins of an ancient government office
03Sakaibashi, a 1937 bridge over the gorge of the Naka River, has semicircular balconies and is a JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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