Himi City

Japan's first excavated cave site.

Ōzakai Cave

Photo by MChew (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Set nets

A net that let the fish escape,fixed by a net owner of Ao.

氷見の鮪漁.jpg — Photo by 鉄道省 (Public domain)

The large net brought from Miyazaki in the late Meiji era let fish slip out once they were in. In the early Taishō era, Ueno Hachirōemon (上野八郎右衛門) of Ao village (阿尾村) narrowed its mouth and added an enclosure where fish circle. Refined further, it became the Etchū-style buri otoshi-ami (越中式鰤落し網), the model for set nets across Japan. In 2021 Himi's set-net fishery became a Japanese Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage System, the only one in Toyama Prefecture.

Ueno-style net, early Taishō
Japanese agricultural heritage, 2021
The only one in the prefecture

02 ／ Prickly water lily

Its leaves grow over 2 m across.In Toyama, it grows only in this lagoon.

The Euryale ferox (オニバス) habitat of Jūnichō-gata lagoon (十二町潟) became Toyama Prefecture's first national natural monument in 1923. This lagoon is the only place in the prefecture where the plant grows. River works and other changes reduced it, and after 1979 it was no longer seen; dredging and cutting of cattails continued, and in 2005 wild plants were confirmed for the first time in 26 years. By 2008 there were 130 plants with leaves over 2 m across.

National natural monument, 1923
Wild again in 2005, after 26 years
130 plants with leaves over 2 m

03 ／ Great ginkgo

12 metres around the trunk,thicker than any other tree in the prefecture.

The ginkgo in the grounds of Jōnichi-ji temple (上日寺) became a national natural monument in 1926. Its trunk measures 12 m around, and the city ranks it first in girth among all trees in Toyama Prefecture. The temple has long been called the "Ginkgo Temple" (銀杏精舎), and people believed that shavings of the chichi (aerial roots) hanging from its branches, boiled and drunk, would bring on a mother's milk. At the end of October it bears as much as 180 litres of nuts.

National natural monument, 1926
12 m around the trunk
About 180 litres of nuts

Living here

Seven fishing ports on a 19.5 km coast.

about 40,000 people

Himi lies at the eastern base of the Noto Peninsula, with a coastline of 19.5 km and seven fishing ports. Through three mergers up to 1954, the whole of Himi District became one city, a rare case in Japan. The gateway is Himi Station on the JR Himi Line, and buses running past the city hall leave from Shin-Takaoka Station on the Shinkansen and from Takaoka Station.

People living here: 43,950people
Area: 230.54km²
Households: 15,759households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,036yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 29 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.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Himi City in Japan36.856°N 136.973°E

Territory of Himi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.9km

Toyama Prefecture: 高岡市
Ishikawa Prefecture: 中能登町, 宝達志水町, 七尾市, 羽咋市

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

Himi City isthis kind of town.

01Ōzakai Cave (大境洞窟), excavated in 1918, holds six layers stacked from the Jōmon period to early modern times
02A net improved by a net owner of Ao grew into the Etchū-style set net, and the set-net fishery became the prefecture's only Japanese agricultural heritage
03It has Euryale ferox, which in Toyama grows only in Jūnichō-gata lagoon, and the thickest tree in the prefecture, the ginkgo of Jōnichi-ji

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Himi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗