Otawara City

A 2.14 m tengu mask sits in a hall.

Great tengu mask, Horin-ji

Photo by 光丸山 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Stone monument

A stone sits on top of the inscribed stone,like a hat.

The Nasu no Kuni no Miyatsuko Stele, the sacred object of Kasaishi Shrine, is a granite monument with an inscription of 152 characters in 8 lines of 19. It records, among other things, that Nasu no Atai Ide was given the post of district head in 689 and died in 700, and that his successor Oshimaro and others raised the stele to remember him.

National Treasure (designated 1952)
Inscription: 152 characters, 8 lines of 19
About 148 cm tall above the base

02 ／ Burial mounds

Finds were copied in drawings,boxed in pine, and buried again.

20090421下侍塚古墳.jpg — Photo by BehBeh at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Samuraizuka Kofun are mounds with a square front and a square rear on a terrace on the right bank of the Naka River: Kami-samuraizuka is 114.0 m long, Shimo-samuraizuka 84.0 m. In Genroku 5 (1692), on Tokugawa Mitsukuni's orders, they were excavated; the mirrors and tubular beads found were drawn by an artist, put in pine-board boxes, and buried again in the tombs.

Excavated in Genroku 5 (1692)
Kami-samuraizuka: 114.0 m long
Shimo-samuraizuka: 84.0 m long

03 ／ Monument

A mirage of marching soldiers was written downby a monk, and later carved in stone.

In the tenth month of Bunka 9 (1812), a mirage appeared over Nasuno of a company of soldiers marching with swords on their shoulders and spears raised. A monk from Koshu passing through wrote it down. Locals called a mirage "horo," and the monument at Yudono Shrine is what was later carved in stone.

Mirage appeared in October 1812
City-designated historic site
In the grounds of Yudono Shrine

Living here

Yuzukami Village and Kurobane Town joined the city.

about 70,000 people

Otawara absorbed Yuzukami Village and Kurobane Town on October 1, 2005. Its railway station is Nozaki, on the JR Utsunomiya Line. Local trains toward Utsunomiya run about twice an hour in the daytime, and there is no train from here to the Tokyo area without a change.

People living here: 72,087people
Area: 354.36km²
Households: 29,792households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,292yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 51 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に編入合併（湯津上村・黒羽町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 7 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Otawara City in Japan36.871°N 140.016°E

Territory of Otawara 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

20.0km

Tochigi Prefecture: 那須塩原市, 那珂川町, 那須町, 矢板市, さくら市
Ibaraki Prefecture: 大子町
Fukushima Prefecture: 棚倉町

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

Otawara City isthis kind of town.

01In the Tengu Hall of Komarusan Horin-ji sits a great tengu mask 2.14 m tall and weighing 1 ton, said to have been dedicated in 1880
02In Yuzukami are the National Treasure Nasu no Kuni no Miyatsuko Stele, with a stone set on top like a hat, and the Samuraizuka Kofun that Mitsukuni had dug in search of the stele's subject
03A monument at Yudono Shrine in Chikasono tells of the 1812 mirage of marching soldiers over Nasuno

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

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