Kai City

Late Muromachi traits show in the eaves.

Yakushi Hall, Kosho-ji Temple

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01 ／ Settlement

With the Shingen Embankment's completion,a settlement of people from nearby villages.

Ryuo Kawara-juku was a settlement along the embankment. To turn the riverbed into fields and have settlers keep up flood defences, people from nearby villages were recruited with an exemption from various duties. By 1565, 50 households had moved in. The Hosaka family documents, five in all and including the Shingen seal document used to recruit settlers, are prefecturally designated.

50 households moved in by 1565
Hosaka family documents (5), prefectural designation
Exemption from various duties

02 ／ Stone torii

The stone torii of a Shida shrinewas built in Oei 4 (1397).

The stone torii is prefecturally designated. Citing the Kai Kokushi, the city explains that a ruined burial mound stood along the Kamanashi River with the Suwa Shrine on it, and says the common name “Funagata Shrine” comes, it is said, from the chamber looking like a boat. Another city page says the shrine’s name comes from a huge rock called “Funa-ishi”.

Built 1397
Prefectural designation (building)
Common name: Funagata Shrine

03 ／ Person

A scholar born in Shinohara has his graveand his handwritten books at one shrine.

Yamagata Daini was a scholar born in Shinohara Village, Koma District (now Shinohara, Kai City), in 1725 (Kyoho 10). He opened a school in Edo, and is said to have taught several thousand students. His grave lies in the grounds of Yamagata Shrine and is a city-designated site; his handwritten books are kept at the same shrine and are prefecturally designated.

Born 1725 in Shinohara Village
Grave: city-designated historic site
Handwritten books: prefectural designation

Living here

The rail gateway is Ryuo Station on the Chuo Main Line.

about 80,000 people

The city’s access guide names Ryuo Station on the Chuo Main Line as its railway station. Shiozaki Station is also in the city. The main city hall is the Ryuo Government Building in Shinohara, with further government buildings in Shikishima and Futaba.

People living here: 75,313people
Area: 71.95km²
Households: 31,039households
Rent (average for rentals): 52,307yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 67 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —18 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.

Kai City in Japan35.661°N 138.516°E

Territory of Kai City

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

19.8km

甲府市, 韮崎市, 北杜市, 南アルプス市, 昭和町

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

Kai City isthis kind of town.

01Kosho-ji Yakushi Hall, in Iwamori, Kai City, is a national Important Cultural Property with a hogyo-zukuri (pyramidal) roof; the city explains that late Muromachi traits show in its eaves and kibana
02Ryuo Kawara-juku was a settlement formed by recruiting settlers from nearby villages as the Shingen Embankment was completed. In Ryuo, the Omiyuki festival parades a portable shrine along the embankment with a stamping motion, the city says
03The stone torii at Shida was built in Oei 4 (1397) and is prefecturally designated. Yamagata Daini’s grave is a city-designated historic site and his handwritten books are prefecturally designated, both at Yamagata Shrine in Shinohara. Ryuo’s Nakamakizuka Tumulus is a prefecturally designated round mound

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗