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06302 ／なかやままち

Yamagata Prefecture 東村山郡

Nakayama Town

An east-facing hall, said to be rare.

Okamura Kannon Hall

Photo by Suz-b (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Mansion cluster

Black board fences around branch-family homesform a single streetscape.

The Former Kashiwakura Residence is a national Important Cultural Property, with a site of about 2,300 tsubo and buildings of about 360 tsubo. The town tourism association says successive heads took the same hereditary name and founded more than ten branch families. Their homes stand around it, and the black board fences enclosing each plot form one streetscape.

Site about 2,300 tsubo, buildings about 360 tsubo
More than ten branch families
National Important Cultural Property (building)

02 ／ Folk materials

951 items gather around the Kannon hall,including 205 mirrors and 389 prayer tablets.

The Iwaya Juhachiya Kannon Folk Belief Materials are a national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. Cultural Heritage Online describes them as a collection of items tied to the work of the female mediums called Onakama, together with offerings that believers made to the Kannon. The breakdown includes 205 mirrors, 389 prayer tablets and 22 azusa bows.

951 items
205 mirrors, 389 prayer tablets
Designated May 22, 1984

03 ／ Pot-Hanging Pine

The pine where boatmen and merchants hung a potcame to be called the Pot-Hanging Pine.

The town tourism association says the port of Nagasaki is regarded as the terminus of Mogami River shipping. Boatmen and merchants waiting for cargo boiled dried cod from their boats with taro from the town, which it presents as the start of imoni gatherings. They hung the pot from a pine branch on the riverbank, giving the Pot-Hanging Pine its name; the present tree is the fifth.

Port said to be the end of river shipping
Dried cod and local taro
Present pine is the fifth

Nakayama 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 2021)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

Home of the Aterazawa Line, the smallest town by area in the prefecture.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town describes Nakayama as the smallest municipality by area in Yamagata Prefecture. The Mogami River runs through its north, and National Route 112 and the JR Aterazawa Line run north to south through its center. The town's stations on the line are Uzen-Nagasaki and Uzen-Kanezawa.

People living here: 10,746people
Area: 31.15km²
Households: 3,515households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Nakayama Town in Japan38.333°N 140.283°E

Territory of Nakayama Town

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

North to south

5.9km

Sagae City, Yamanobe Town, Yamagata City, Oe Town, Tendo City

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

Nakayama Town isthis kind of town.

01Okamura Kannon Hall is the 14th of the Mogami Thirty-Three Kannon; the prefecture's tourism site says an east-facing Kannon hall is said to be quite rare, and the town lists the building as town-designated
02The Former Kashiwakura Residence is ringed by black board fences around its branch families' homes, and with the 951 Iwaya Juhachiya Kannon materials it makes up the town's two national designations
03The Pot-Hanging Pine is where boatmen waiting at the reputed river terminus of Nagasaki hung a pot, which the town tourism association presents as the start of imoni gatherings

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nakayama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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