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13402 ／あおがしまむら

Aogashima Village

A peak in a crater has two old craters.

Maruyama, two craters

Photo by Soica2001 (Public domain)

01 ／ Sanpo Port boat ramp

Fishing boats rest on land,lifted out by crane at each departure.

The village says Aogashima (Sanpo) Port is the island's vital sea gateway, and that lighter work continued here until the very end in Japan. Because the fishing boats' berth is on land, a large crane lifts each boat out at every departure.

Fishing boats berthed on land
Lifted by a large crane
Lighter work continued to the end in Japan (village)

02 ／ Hingya, the steam kettle

Hingya, from "edge of fire", cooked andheated homes before electricity.

The village says Ikenosawa has countless steam vents, called hingya in the island dialect, used for heating and cooking before electricity. A nearby geothermal kettle steams eggs, sweet potatoes and nearly anything else.

Name from "edge of fire"
Countless vents in Ikenosawa
The kettle steams almost anything

03 ／ Hingya salt-making

Seawater from the main Kuroshio currentis slowly made into salt by geothermal heat.

The village's specialty guide says hingya salt is made, slowly and over time, from seawater drawn from the main Kuroshio current, using only geothermal heat. A hingya is a vent in the ground where steam rises.

Seawater from the main Kuroshio
Geothermal heat only
Made slowly over time

Aogashima Village from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot November 2020)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

An island reached by boat, south of Hachijojima.

about 1,000 people

The village says Aogashima lies 358 km south of Tokyo and 68 km off Hachijojima, the southernmost of the Izu Islands. The Kuroshio warms the whole island, with temperatures of 10 to 25 degrees C year-round. All its settlements are above 250 m.

People living here: 169people
Area: 5.95km²
Households: 118households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 1 clinic

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

Children waiting for childcare: —0 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 0 municipalities.

Aogashima Village in Japan32.467°N 139.763°E

Territory of Aogashima Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

3.4km

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

Aogashima Village isthis kind of town.

01Maruyama is described by the village as an inner cone with two old craters, large and small. The Japan Meteorological Agency places it as a central cone inside the 1.5-1.7 km Ikenosawa crater
02The grave of Sasaki Jirodayu Korenobu, a village headman, is a Tokyo Metropolitan historic site. Three old documents of the Sasaki headman family are village-designated tangible cultural properties, and his house site keeps a stone wall and large cycads
03Settlements cluster on the gentle slope north of the outer rim, at 250-300 m. The island's highest point, Otombu, is 423 m, with a triangulation point

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

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