Oyabe City

A school tower mixing Yasuda and Oxford.

Märchen architecture

Photo by Ttaakkaco (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kurikara Pass

Yoshinaka prayed for victory at the shrine below,and the Taira set up camp on the pass.

In the Battle of Kurikara in 1183, Kiso Yoshinaka is said to have prayed for victory at Hanyu Gokoku Hachimangu (埴生護国八幡宮) at the foot of the pass, and a copy of his prayer is kept at the shrine. Sarugababa (猿ヶ馬場), where the Taira commander Taira no Koremori set up his headquarters, lies on the Oyabe side of the prefectural border. The shrine buildings, donated by the Maeda family, are an Important Cultural Property, and in a shrine rite young men in armor walk around the veranda seven and a half times.

Battle of Kurikara, 1183
Shrine buildings are an Important Cultural Property
Seven and a half laps of the veranda

02 ／ Potholes

Pebbles spun by the waterdrilled round holes in the riverbed.

At Miyajima Gorge (宮島峡) on the Konashi River (子撫川), the Ichi-no-taki falls, about 3 m high, drop across the full width of the river, and some 20 m downstream about 20 round holes, large and small, line the rock riverbed. They are potholes (甌穴, oketsu), carved as pebbles caught in small hollows were spun by the current and ground away the rock. As a rare geological feature, they were designated a prefectural natural monument together with the falls in 1965.

About 20 potholes
Some 20 m below the falls
Prefectural natural monument, 1965

03 ／ Yotaka lanterns

Giant rice-festival lanternsclash one against one.

On the first Friday and Saturday of June, large, medium and small lanterns from 11 neighborhood associations parade through the streets of Tsuzawa (津沢). At the end, the giant lanterns are rammed into each other one against one, each side smashing the other's hanging ornaments. It began as a rice festival praying for a good harvest on Yasungoto (ヤスンゴト), June 10 and 11, and the city believes it is the oldest of the town-center rice festivals in the Tonami region.

First Friday and Saturday of June
11 neighborhood associations
City intangible folk cultural property

Living here

From Isurugi Station: Kanazawa in about 23 minutes, Toyama in about 33.

about 30,000 people

The city's only railway station is Isurugi Station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and the tourism association says Kanazawa Station is about 23 minutes away and Toyama Station about 33 minutes. The Hokuriku Shinkansen stops at Shin-Takaoka Station in neighboring Takaoka. The city supports people moving in with home-purchase grants and a vacant house and land bank.

People living here: 28,983people
Area: 134.07km²
Households: 9,726households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,160yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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.

Oyabe City in Japan36.675°N 136.869°E

Territory of Oyabe City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.5km

Toyama Prefecture: 南砺市, 高岡市, 砺波市
Ishikawa Prefecture: 津幡町, 金沢市

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

Oyabe City isthis kind of town.

01Schools and community halls modeled on Yasuda Hall, the Palace of Versailles, Tokyo Station and other famous buildings, known as Märchen architecture (メルヘン建築), stand across the city
02On the Etchu side of Kurikara Pass are Sarugababa, where the Taira set up headquarters, and Hanyu Gokoku Hachimangu, where Kiso Yoshinaka prayed for victory
03About 20 potholes carved by pebbles line the riverbed at Miyajima Gorge, and in June the giant lanterns of Tsuzawa clash one against one

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

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