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13221 ／きよせし

Kiyose City

Zigzag path, pillars for stations 1-9.

Nakazato no Fujizuka

01 ／ Uchiori

From cocoons and thread that could not be sold,women wove cloth for their families.

From the early Meiji era through the Showa 20s (1945-54), farm women in Kiyose wove cloth and clothing for their own families from waste cocoons and thread left over from contract weaving. Mostly silk and cotton, with stripes and ikat patterns common, 469 pieces were designated a national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 2017.

469 pieces
National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, 2017
Stripes and ikat patterns common

02 ／ Old road

"Left, the Hachioji road; right, the Ome road"is carved on stones at a junction.

On the Shiki Kaido, the zelkova avenue in Nakakiyoto forms a green tunnel from spring to summer, and the city counts it among its Ten Views of Kiyose. Further east, at a three-way junction in Motomachi, nine large and small stones, horse-headed Kannon and Koshin monuments, stand together, with inscriptions that include "left, the Hachioji road; right, the Ome road".

9 stones, large and small
One of the city's Ten Views
Zelkova avenue

03 ／ Old farmhouse

The main house of a family that served asvillage head, moved here from Noshio.

The Former Morita House in Shitajuku is the main house of the Morita family, moved here from Noshio. From a gravestone inscription, the family is thought to have settled in Noshio by the late 16th century, and in the last years of the shogunate it served as village head. The house is thought to date from the middle to early late Edo period. The same district also keeps Fusegi, a Tokyo-designated custom in which straw snakes are put up at the old village boundaries.

Thought to date from the mid to early late Edo period
Village head in the last years of the shogunate
City-designated tangible cultural property

Kiyose 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–October 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

As little as 21 minutes to Ikebukuro.

about 80,000 people
30 min to a city centre

Kiyose Station opened in 1924 on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, and Ikebukuro is as little as 21 minutes away by rapid train. In the southwest of the city, seven hospitals that grew out of tuberculosis sanatoriums still carry on medical care in the district known as the hospital quarter.

People living here: 76,208people
Area: 10.23km²
Households: 35,003households
Rent (average for rentals): 52,738yen
Healthcare: 11 hospitals ／ 45 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Kiyose City in Japan35.786°N 139.526°E

to IkebukuroSeibu Ikebukuro Line21min

Travel times follow 西武鉄道の列車時刻（seibu.ekitan.com の池袋駅〈235-0 d1〉・清瀬駅〈235-14 d1・d2〉の駅の時刻表を Wayback の web.archive.org/web/2026id_/ で取得。2026-10-22 は seibu.ekitan.com がメンテナンスの転送）と、Yahoo!路線情報（transit.yahoo.co.jp）の池袋→清瀬の経路検索（2026-10-23〔金〕・10-24〔土〕）。 (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kiyose City

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

North to south

5.1km

Tokyo: Higashimurayama City, Higashikurume City
Saitama Prefecture: Niiza City, Tokorozawa City

Kiyose City isthis kind of town.

01Nakazato no Fujizuka, a Tokyo-designated tangible folk cultural property built on the edge of a terrace on the right bank of the Yanase River, has stone pillars for stations 1 to 9 along its zigzag path and is the site of a fire festival every September 1
02Uchiori, 469 pieces of cloth and clothing that farm women wove for their families from waste cocoons and leftover thread, is a national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
03The hospital quarter in the southwest of the city is where more than ten tuberculosis sanatoriums stood in the mid-Showa era, and seven hospitals that grew out of them remain

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

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