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Ogasawara Village

One stone built the mound and museum.

Ross stone, native to Hahajima

Photo by タクナワン (CC0)

01 ／ Hahajima Meguro

The Hahajima Meguro, a Special Natural Monument,is seen around Hahajima's settlement.

Hahajima Meguro in Ogasawara Village — Photo by Tomohide shimura (CC BY-SA 4.0)

A national Special Natural Monument (designated March 15, 1977). The village's Hahajima guide presents it as a bird met on the trail up the mountain, and the Tokyo Islands portal as one seen around the settlement.

National Special Natural Monument (March 15, 1977)
Met on the mountain trail
Seen around the settlement

02 ／ Ogiike on Minamijima | Drowned karst

Ogiike is recorded as a sandy dolinejoined to the open sea by a natural bridge.

Cultural Heritage Online records that in the middle of Minamijima, a doline linked to the open sea by a natural bridge called Ogiike holds a beach. Fossils of a land snail that went extinct 1,000-2,000 years ago are common in the dunes.

National Natural Monument (March 28, 2008)
Uninhabited island, about 1.5 km by 400 m
Fossils of a snail extinct 1,000-2,000 years ago

03 ／ Nihoe Monument, Ogiura

Eight of 30 settlers from Hachijojima were children.Their brush-offering monument is in Ogiura.

In 1862, 8 of the 30 farmers who migrated from Hachijojima were children, and shogunate official Hara Matakichi taught them penmanship. A monument for used brushes was raised that winter and stands in the Ogasawara Shrine grounds.

1862 (Bunkyu 2)
8 of 30 migrants were children
Village-designated Tangible Cultural Property (July 2010)

Ogasawara 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 February 2014)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

From Takeshiba Pier to Chichijima, 24 hours by ship.

about 3,000 people

The village website says the regular liner Ogasawara-Maru takes 24 hours from Takeshiba Pier to Futami Port on Chichijima. Hahajima lies about 50 km south of Chichijima, 2 hours from Futami Port on the Hahajima-Maru. Population is 2,457 (as of September 1, 2026; Chichijima 2,061, Hahajima 396).

People living here: 2,929people
Area: 113.04km²
Households: 1,469households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Ogasawara Village in Japan27.094°N 142.192°E

Territory of Ogasawara Village

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

North to south

390.0km

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

Ogasawara Village isthis kind of town.

01Hahajima's insect mound (August 1935) and its base are made of Ross stone, which the island yields. The local museum built of Hahajima's Ross stone is called the Ross Kinenkan
02At Miyukinohama on Hahajima, fossils of large foraminifera called nummulites can be seen. On Chichijima's Okumura stands a monument for drifters raised in 1862
03The village website puts "World Natural Heritage Ogasawara Islands" first in its sightseeing guide. The islands are said to have been discovered in 1593 by Ogasawara Sadayori, great-grandson of the lord of Fukashi Castle in Shinano

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ogasawara Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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