Nyuzen Town

Lowland cedars that root under snow.

Sugisawa no Sawasugi

Photo by Ruess1 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Sawasugi cedars

Of 130 hectares of cedar woods,only 2.67 hectares were kept.

杉沢の沢スギの池.jpg — Photo by Ruess1 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Sugisawa no Sawasugi (杉沢の沢スギ) is a cedar wood in Yoshiwara (吉原), near the sea at the edge of the Kurobe River alluvial fan. Woods of this kind, called sugisawa, covered about 130 ha at some 40 sites in 1954, but land consolidation turned most of them into rice paddies. The 2.67 ha that was kept became a national Natural Monument in 1973. Branches bent down by heavy snow touch the ground and put out roots there, a rare sight on flat land.

National Natural Monument, 1973
About 130 ha → 2.67 ha
Branches that take root

02 ／ Power station museum

A Taishō-era power station,turned into a museum by the town.

The Nizayama Forest Art Museum (下山芸術の森発電所美術館) is a red-brick hydroelectric power station built in 1926, which the town received from Hokuriku Electric Power and opened as a museum in 1995. The small station used a 23 m drop in the river terraces of the alluvial fan. Contemporary art is shown in a space that keeps one of its three generators and the 3 m-wide mouths of its penstocks. The building is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built 1926
Museum since 1995
Registered Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Jumbo watermelon

Watermelons of 17 to 19 kg,wrapped in woven straw.

The Nyuzen Jumbo Watermelon (入善ジャンボ西瓜) is a long oval, shaped like a rugby ball, and weighs 17 to 19 kg on average. It has been grown in Nyuzen since around 1897. In 2017 it became the first product in Toyama Prefecture registered as a Geographical Indication (GI), with Nyuzen as its only production area. For shipping, each melon is wrapped in sandawara (さん俵), woven rice straw, to protect the heavy fruit. It is harvested from mid-July to early August.

17–19 kg on average
GI registered 2017
Grown only in Nyuzen

Living here

Two stations, and 1.4 million yen for a fourth child.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town has two stations on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway, Nyūzen and Nishi-Nyūzen, and the town office is a 30-minute walk from Nyūzen Station. It borders Kurobe and Asahi, and faces the Sea of Japan along 11.5 km of coast. The town's own childbirth support pays 50,000 yen for a first child, 100,000 yen for a second and 200,000 yen for a third, and 1.4 million yen over seven years for a fourth or later child.

People living here: 23,839people
Area: 71.25km²
Households: 8,699households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,570yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Nyuzen Town in Japan36.934°N 137.502°E

Territory of Nyuzen Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.1km

黒部市, 朝日町

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

Nyuzen Town isthis kind of town.

01At the edge of the Kurobe River alluvial fan, 2.67 ha of the Sugisawa no Sawasugi, a cedar wood rare on flat land, survives as a national Natural Monument
02The town turned a red-brick hydroelectric power station of 1926 into the Nizayama Forest Art Museum
03The Nyuzen Jumbo Watermelon, 17 to 19 kg on average, became Toyama Prefecture's first Geographical Indication (GI) in 2017

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nyuzen Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗