Ichikawamisato Town

A mountain lake was a Fuji water site.

Lake Shibire, Inner Eight Lakes

Photo by さかおり (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Ichinose mulberry

The original mulberry that spread nationwideis said to stand before the Ichinose house.

A prefecture-designated Natural Monument. The town records that a man named Ichinose found a fine individual among mulberry seedlings he had bought and used it as the original stock. The town also records that an Excellence Award was conferred at a sericulture fair in 1916. The prefecture says the “red” and “blue” forms planted in the field in front of the Ichinose house are the originals of what spread across the country.

Prefectural Natural Monument
“Red” and “blue” forms
Excellence Award at a sericulture fair, 1916

02 ／ Tomikuji

To repair the shrine,a lottery was permitted in Bunsei 12.

The town records that the administrator of Uwato Shrine petitioned to hold a tomikuji lottery to pay for repairs, and permission came on the 27th day of the 11th month of Bunsei 12. Tickets did not sell well around Ueno and Ichikawa, so the lottery ran for three years at a shrine in Yamada, Kofu. The box used, with its wooden tags and spear, is said to be kept, and is a town-designated folk material.

Permitted on the 27th of the 11th month, Bunsei 12
Held for 3 years in Kofu
Town-designated folk material

03 ／ Ichikawa Church

A plaster-finished chapel is the focal pointof the street the town calls Past and Present.

A nationally registered tangible cultural property, which the town describes as built in 1897 (Meiji 30). The single-storey wooden building has a pantile roof and one interior room, with a semicircular altar at the front. The town says its plaster-finished exterior is the central presence on the street it calls “Past and Present.”

Built in 1897 (Meiji 30)
Wooden, single-storey, pantile roof
Semicircular altar

Living here

20 minutes from Kofu by limited express Fujikawa.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The limited express Fujikawa stops at Ichikawadaimon Station on the JR Minobu Line. JR Central’s station timetable gives guide times of 20 minutes from Kofu Station to Ichikawadaimon Station and 111 minutes from Ichikawadaimon Station to Shizuoka Station, varying by train.

People living here: 14,700people
Area: 75.18km²
Households: 5,803households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Ichikawamisato Town in Japan35.565°N 138.502°E

to KofuLtd. exp. Fujikawa20min

Travel times follow JR東海の公式の駅時刻表（身延線市川大門駅の発車時刻表と『停車駅のご案内』の所要時間の目安。2026年3月14日改正） (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Ichikawamisato Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

12.8km

身延町, 中央市, 富士川町, 甲府市, 南アルプス市

Ichikawamisato Town isthis kind of town.

01A mountain lake 850 m above sea level and 1.2 km around. The prefectural archaeological center describes the Inner Eight Lakes as eight water sites for purification rites in Fuji worship, and an explanatory text in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s database of tourism resources, prepared by a Yamanashi Prefecture council, says it is the farthest of them from Mount Fuji
02The Ichinose mulberry is a prefecture-designated Natural Monument. Uwato Shrine keeps the box from a lottery permitted in Bunsei 12, a town-designated folk material, and a festival in which a portable shrine crosses the Ashi River has been held there
03Ichikawa Church is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. The town also has Kosho-ji Temple, whose thatched Nio gate is town-designated, a stone shrine on an old mountain pass, and the Toriibara Kitsunezuka tumulus; the town’s website says fireworks at a Shinmei Shrine festival are the origin of today’s Shinmei fireworks

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ichikawamisato Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗