Yaita City

House re-dated by its repair report.

Arai Family Residence

Photo by BehBeh (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Western house

A Western-style house built in Odawaramoved to the Yamagata farm in 1924.

A Western-style house built in 1909 in the grounds of Koki-an, the Odawara villa known as Yamagata Aritomo's late-life retreat, was moved in 1924 by his eldest son Isaburo to its present site on the Yamagata farm. It was designed by Ito Chuta. The exterior is plain, while the interior, above all the staircase and the second-floor sitting room, is richly decorated.

Built at Koki-an, 1909
Moved to present site, 1924
Designed by Ito Chuta

02 ／ Lantern

An iron lantern the city's board of educationrecords as one of a pair offered to Nikko Toshogu.

The iron lantern at Kibata Shrine is recorded by the Yaita City Board of Education as one of a pair that Matsudaira Tosa-no-kami Tadayoshi offered to Nikko Toshogu in 1617 (Genna 3). Why it was moved to Kibata Shrine is not known. The shrine's main hall and tower gate are National Important Cultural Properties.

One of a pair
Offered in 1617 (Genna 3)
City-designated Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Old residence

Road works are said to have run straighttoward a red flag on the Yaita house's cedar.

Yaita Takeshi's old residence keeps a nagaya-mon gatehouse, a main house and two storehouses built in the Edo period, and is a city historic site. The city relates that the new national road (the former National Route 4) was built in a straight line toward a red flag tied to a huge cedar at the Yaita house, partly on Katsu Kaishu's orders.

City-designated historic site
Gatehouse, main house, two storehouses
New road, now the former Route 4

Living here

Two Utsunomiya Line stations, a loop bus downtown.

about 30,000 people

Yaita Station and Kataoka Station on the JR Utsunomiya Line (Tohoku Main Line) are both in the city. Since October 2021 public transport has been reorganised into reservation-based demand transport and the Central Loop Route, which circles the central urban area. The loop route needs no registration or reservation and is open to people from outside the city.

People living here: 31,165people
Area: 170.46km²
Households: 12,012households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,450yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 18 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 4 municipalities.

Yaita City in Japan36.807°N 139.924°E

Territory of Yaita 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

22.3km

塩谷町, 那須塩原市, さくら市, 大田原市

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

Yaita City isthis kind of town.

01The main house and gate of the Arai family, who served as village headmen, are Important Cultural Properties; the house was once thought to date from just after a fire, but a report on its 1984 repairs places it in the late 18th century
02A Western-style house built at Koki-an in Odawara in 1909 was moved in 1924 to the Yamagata farm and is now the prefecturally designated Yamagata Aritomo Kinenkan
03The city's board of education records the Kibata Shrine iron lantern as one of a pair offered to Nikko Toshogu, and the city's digital museum relates the red-flag cedar story of the Yaita Takeshi residence

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yaita City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗