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06403 ／いいでまち

Yamagata Prefecture 西置賜郡

Iide Town

Homes with woodlots dot the farmland.

Scattered homes in farmland

Photo by 飯豊町観光協会 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Sedge hats

Nakatsugawa, which made sedge hats in the off-season,makes most flower hats for the Hanagasa Festival.

Nakatsugawa is one of the prefecture's heaviest-snow districts. It long made farm sedge hats in the winter off-season and has made flower hats since 1963. A prefectural PR document says about 80% of the flower hats used at the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival (around 2017) are made here, each household doing everything by hand, from growing the sedge to sewing.

About 80% of flower hats (around 2017, prefecture)
Flower hats supplied since 1963
All by hand, from growing sedge to sewing

02 ／ Tunnel channel

A 154 m tunnel through the ridgejoins the western valley and the Shirakawa gorge.

The prefecture's listing describes a tunnel channel cutting through a side ridge at the seventh station (1,500 m) of the Nakatsugawa trailhead on Mt. Iide. Inside it is 1.3 to 1.5 m high and 70 to 82 cm wide. Work to secure irrigation water for the domain began in 1799 and finished after 15 working years, dug from both ends.

Prefectural historic site (1956)
Main tunnel 154 m long
Finished after 15 working years

03 ／ Hall and earthwork

Extend the central axis of an earthen platform,and you reach Nakamura Kannon Hall.

The prefecture's listing describes Tenyoji Kannon Hall (also called Nakamura Kannon Hall) as a three-by-three-bay hall with a pyramidal roof; a tablet dated 1466 shows it was rebuilt in 1414. Beside the entrance to its grounds, the Nakamurahara Dodan, a square enclosure 17 m on a side, is ringed by a dry moat.

Both prefecturally designated (1952)
Pyramidal roof, three by three bays
Square enclosure 17 m on a side

Iide 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 July–September 2019)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

Over 80% of the town's area is forest.

about 7,000 people
Rural district town

The town's relocation site says forest covers more than 80% of the town's 329.41 km². The town's overview says it borders Yonezawa City and Kawanishi Town to the east, Oguni Town to the west, Kitakata City in Fukushima Prefecture to the south and Nagai City to the north. The northeast is farmland fed by the Shirakawa River, and the south is mountains joined to the Iide Mountains.

People living here: 6,613people
Area: 329.41km²
Households: 2,125households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Iide Town in Japan38.046°N 139.988°E

Territory of Iide Town

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

North to south

33.8km

Yamagata Prefecture: Oguni Town, Kawanishi Town, Nagai City, Yonezawa City
Fukushima Prefecture: Kitakata City

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

Iide Town isthis kind of town.

01The scattered-settlement landscape has homes with woodlots dotting the farmland, and the town lists the Hotokeyama observation deck near Tenyoji Kannon Hall as a viewing spot
02Nakatsugawa has made sedge hats in the off-season, and a prefectural PR document says about 80% of the flower hats used at the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival (around 2017) are made here
03The Anazeki of Mt. Iide is a 154 m tunnel channel and a prefectural historic site; Tenyoji Kannon Hall and the Nakamurahara Dodan are also prefectural, with the hall on the Dodan's central axis

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iide Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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