Oshino Village

This pond wells up 2.2 m³ a second.

Wakuike Pond, Oshino Hakkai

Photo by 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Statues

Three statues inscribed with the year 1315are enshrined at Sengen Shrine in Shibokusa.

The base of each statue bears an inscription such as "Showa 4, tenth month, 23rd day", showing that the Buddhist sculptor Shoson made them in 1315. The Agency for Cultural Affairs, which lists the three as an Important Cultural Property, calls them the oldest surviving example of statues for a Sengen shrine. They are enshrined in a main hall inside a cover building that doubles as the worship hall; the main hall is prefecture-designated.

Inscribed 1315
Important Cultural Property, 2005
Main hall prefecture-designated, 2019

02 ／ Uchino canal

Water from Lake Yamanakawas brought to Uchino's fields by tunnel.

Uchino relied on Lake Yamanaka for part of its farm and household water. According to a 2010 paper by Fumihiro Yoneyama, the Uchino canal then drew water directly from the lake through a tunnel. A fall in the lake level reduced the flow, and the water-rights association set up the post of water watcher, who reports the flow at the intake to its officers.

Taken from Lake Yamanaka by tunnel
Water watcher reports intake flow

03 ／ Waterfall

Water from Oshino Hakkai and a Katsura tributaryfalls in two streams over lava.

The village's guide describes a two-stream waterfall fed by Oshino Hakkai and a tributary of the Katsura River, with a drop of about 10 metres. The rock it falls over is all lava from eruptions of Mount Fuji. It is also described in the Kai Kokushi, and it seems to have been called Kane-ga-fuchi, a deep pool, in the past.

Drop of about 10 metres
Two-stream waterfall
Described in the Kai Kokushi

Living here

No station; 129 minutes by express bus from Shinjuku.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the village. The express bus from Shinjuku takes 129 minutes to the Oshino Village Office stop, and 137 minutes in the other direction (Fujikyu Bus timetable). At 936 m above sea level, the village is made up of two districts, Uchino and Shibokusa.

People living here: 9,237people
Area: 25.05km²
Households: 3,489households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Oshino Village in Japan35.460°N 138.848°E

to ShinjukuHighway bus129min

Travel times follow 富士急バスの公式ページ「新宿駅～富士急ハイランド・河口湖駅・富士山駅・山中湖方面の高速バス」（https://bus.fujikyu.co.jp/highway/fujisan/shinjuku-kawaguchiko/ ・Last-Modified 2026-10-08）に埋め込まれた時刻表の下り（バスタ新宿→山中湖方面）。バスタ新宿（南口）発 08:15→忍野村役場前 10:24（1151便・京王）、09:15→11:24（1153便・富士急）、10:15→12:24（1157便）、12:15→14:24（1159便）、17:15→19:24（1165便）、19:15→21:24（1167便）の6便がすべて129分。上り（山中湖平野・旭日丘発→バスタ新宿）は忍野村役場前 07:38→09:55（1154便）、09:38→11:55（1156便）の2便とも137分 (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Oshino Village

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

5.5km

山中湖村, 富士吉田市, 都留市

Oshino Village isthis kind of town.

01By the village's table, Wakuike Pond, one of the eight ponds of Oshino Hakkai, covers 152 square metres and is 4 metres deep, with a flow of 2.2 cubic metres per second; the ponds are a national natural monument and a component of the Mount Fuji World Heritage property
02Sengen Shrine in Shibokusa enshrines three statues inscribed with the year 1315, an Important Cultural Property, and Uchino's fields relied on a canal that brought Lake Yamanaka water by tunnel
03The village says the whole village was once Lake Utsu and that springs remained after Lake Oshino dried up; Kaneyama Falls, fed by Oshino Hakkai, drops about 10 metres

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Oshino Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗