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13308 ／おくたままち

Tokyo 西多摩郡

Okutama Town

The trunk forks into nine limbs ~5 m up.

Japanese Cypress at Kurasawa

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kazuma Cutting

With the cutting finished in the Genroku years,the town writes, ties with the east grew close.

This Town-designated historic site lies on the old road above the Shiromaru tunnel, on the ridge between Shiromaru and Hikawa. The town explains that only once the cutting was completed in the Genroku years did ties with the eastern side become close, and that it was opened to avoid a hard mountain crossing.

Town historic site (1977)
Completed in the Genroku years
Old road above Shiromaru Tunnel

02 ／ Four Falls of Unazawa

The four falls of Unazawa Valley are formedby Triassic-to-Jurassic chert.

Mitsugama, Nejire, Odaki and Fudo falls in Unazawa Valley are a Tokyo-designated Place of Scenic Beauty. Mitsugama Fall is a three-step cascade with a drop of 18.3 m, and the metropolis records that all the falls are formed in chert layers from the Triassic to the Jurassic.

Tokyo-designated scenic beauty (2000)
Mitsugama Fall drop 18.3 m
Triassic-to-Jurassic chert

03 ／ Kotanba Kumano Shrine stage

A stage spans the shrine's stone steps;from below it looks two storeys.

The stage was built to straddle the stone steps of the approach to the precinct, and also serves as a gate to the shrine. Built against a stone wall in the kakezukuri style, it looks two-storeyed from below and like a single-storey stage from the precinct. It is a Tokyo-designated tangible folk cultural property.

Tokyo-designated tangible folk cultural property (1975)
12.7 m wide, 5.5 m deep
Built against a stone wall

Okutama 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

Five JR Ome Line stations in town; the office is by Okutama Station.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

Five JR Ome Line stations lie within the town, and the town's relocation site says trains run about once every 30 to 45 minutes. Okutama Town Office is a one-minute walk from Okutama Station. The town covers 225.53 km², equal to a tenth of Tokyo, and all of it lies within Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park.

People living here: 4,750people
Area: 225.53km²
Households: 1,984households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 7 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 8 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Okutama Town in Japan35.810°N 139.096°E

Territory of Okutama Town

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

North to south

17.7km

Tokyo: Hinohara Village, Ome City, Akiruno City
Saitama Prefecture: Chichibu City, Hanno City
Yamanashi Prefecture: Tabayama Village, Kosuge Village, Uenohara City

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

Okutama Town isthis kind of town.

01The Tokyo-designated natural monument Kurasawa no Hinoki in Nippara (designated 1987) has a chest-height girth of 6.3 m and a height of 34 m, its trunk dividing into nine limbs about 5 m up
02Kazuma Cutting, a town historic site, the Four Falls of Unazawa, a Tokyo-designated Place of Scenic Beauty, and the stage of Kotanba Kumano Shrine, a Tokyo-designated tangible folk cultural property, are listed among the town's cultural properties
03Beside Okuhikawa Shrine stands the Hikawa Sanbon-sugi cedar, a Tokyo-designated natural monument, and the town lists the Kashima Odori of Ogochi and the mountain-village tools of Ogochi as national important folk cultural properties

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Okutama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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