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13305 ／ひのでまち

Tokyo 西多摩郡

Hinode Town

Branches droop all around: a rare sight.

Sajigami Shrine weeping akashide

Photo by Sakaori (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Phoenix dance

A dance in phoenix crowns is calleda "rare tradition" in the national commentary.

The Shimohirai phoenix dance (Hoo no Mai), performed at the festival of Kasuga Shrine, is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (2006). The Agency for Cultural Affairs says four phoenixes, four sasara players and others, ten in all, dance around a large drum in three circles. The town says it is one of 41 Furyu-odori entries.

Designated 15 March 2006, a national property
Four phoenixes, four sasara players, ten in all
One of 41 Furyu-odori entries (2022)

02 ／ Hanyu sotoba

The town records that fir treesgave rise to sotoba making.

The town's Historical and Cultural Basic Plan (March 2011) says sotoba, wooden memorial tablets, developed thanks to a setting rich in native fir woods and the rise of forestry, names the Hanyu family as the home of its origin, and cites a 60% national share. The town's site says sotoba are sold to temples nationwide.

Basic Plan, March 2011
60% national share (Basic Plan's wording)
About 20 makers (as of 2011)

03 ／ Hirai-juku Itabi

Where the Kamakura and Mitake roads meet,a slab marked Kenji 3 stands.

Saiko-ji's itabi, a stone slab, dates to Kenji 3 (1277) and was designated by the town in 1978. The Basic Plan says it is among the oldest picture slabs with a recorded year in the Tama River basin, and that Hirai-juku held six-day markets for firewood, charcoal and textiles in the early modern period.

Kenji 3 (1277)
Town designation, 1 Sept 1978
Six-day markets in early modern Hirai-juku

Hinode Town 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 October–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

No station: take the bus to a stop near the town office.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town has no railway station. Its site directs visitors to take a Nishi Tokyo Bus from the west exit of Fussa Station or from in front of Musashi-Itsukaichi Station to the stop Bunka-no-Mori Iriguchi, near the town office. Mt. Hinode (902 m), source of the town's name, rises to the west, the town says.

People living here: 16,958people
Area: 28.07km²
Households: 6,012households
Rent (average for rentals): 56,680yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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 2 municipalities.

Hinode Town in Japan35.742°N 139.257°E

Territory of Hinode Town

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

North to south

6.4km

Akiruno City, Ome City

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

Hinode Town isthis kind of town.

01The Sajigami Shrine weeping akashide is a natural monument designated on 21 July 1942 in the Agency for Cultural Affairs database. The town's site calls its sight, with branches drooping in every direction, rare and gives the drooping crown as 5 m across
02The Shimohirai Hoo no Mai is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; the town's site says it is said to have come from Kyoto and is performed as a rain dance and also against pestilence. The town records it as one of 41 Furyu-odori entries
03The town's Basic Plan says the sotoba industry, using fir, took root in Hanyu, and Saiko-ji in Hirai-juku has a slab from Kenji 3 (1277). The town has no railway station, and its gateway is a bus stop near the town office

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hinode Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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