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13220 ／ひがしやまとし

Higashiyamato City

Hall repairs turned up a ridge tablet.

Imokubo's guardian shrine

01 ／ Former Yoshioka residence

A headman's farmhouse, its earth-floor arearemade as a Japanese painter's studio.

A farmhouse built in the mid-Meiji era by Iketani Toemon, who served as village headman. The Japanese-style painter Yoshioka Kenji kept creating here from 1944 until he died in 1990.

Built in the mid-Meiji era
National registered tangible cultural property (2017)
Yoshioka worked here from 1944 to 1990

02 ／ Water deity statue

One of the three Suiten statues in Tokyo,the city says, stands at a temple in Imokubo.

Suiten is one of the twelve guardian deities and is often set by water, as a guard against drowning and a prayer for rain. This statue was set up in the late Edo period and moved to its present site with the temple in 1922.

One of three in Tokyo (city)
Set up in the late Edo period
Moved in 1922
City treasure (designated 1983)

03 ／ Notice-board site

The kosatsuba, where shogunate notices were posted,is said to be the only one left in the city.

In the Edo period, notices from the shogunate and magistrates were written on wooden boards called kosatsu. The city records that the notice-board sites, set in front of headmen's houses, fell out of use in the Meiji era and were torn down; this is the only one in the city.

Tokyo-designated historic site (designated 1922)
Notices of the shogunate and magistrates on wooden boards
The only one left in the city (city)

Higashiyamato City 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 June–November 2019)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

5.3 km east to west, 4.3 km north to south: a city south of the hills.

about 80,000 people

The city lies at the southern edge of the middle of the Sayama Hills, which stretch east to west. The land slopes gently from the north to the center and is mostly flat from the center to the south. City Hall is about a 15-minute walk from Kamikitadai Station on the Tama Monorail.

People living here: 83,901people
Area: 13.42km²
Households: 36,336households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,466yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 53 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —16 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Higashiyamato City in Japan35.745°N 139.427°E

to Seibu-ShinjukuSeibu Shinjuku Line and Haijima Line34min

Travel times follow 西武鉄道の時刻表（Wayback 2026id_ の seibu.ekitan.com 西武新宿238-0・東大和市234-9。2026-10-22取得） (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Higashiyamato City

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

North to south

4.4km

Tokyo: Musashimurayama City, Higashimurayama City, Kodaira City, Tachikawa City
Saitama Prefecture: Tokorozawa City

Higashiyamato City isthis kind of town.

01The main hall of the Imokubo shrine had a ridge tablet of 1466 turn up in dismantling repairs in fiscal 1992-95; it is a Tokyo-designated tangible cultural property, and the city records it as the oldest surviving shrine building in Tokyo
02The former Yoshioka residence in Shimizu is a farmhouse a village headman built in the mid-Meiji era, its earth-floor area remade as the studio of the Japanese painter Yoshioka Kenji; a national registered tangible cultural property
03The temple's Suiten statue is, the city says, one of three in Tokyo; the kosatsuba is a Tokyo-designated historic site that the city records as the only one left in the city

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

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