Uenohara City

Streamers and a drum make a room a hall.

Mushono Dainembutsu, Furyu-odori

Photo by Sakaori (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Great tree

A zelkova 8.64 m around at eye level,its main trunk lost at 4.5 m above ground.

A national Natural Monument in the front yard of Uenohara Elementary School. The city's cultural property page gives a height of 28 m, a girth of 8.64 m at eye level and a root girth of 10.21 m, and says the main trunk is gone at a point 4.5 m above the ground.

National Natural Monument
28 m tall
8.64 m at eye level, 10.21 m at the roots

02 ／ Milestone mound

The 21st mound from Nihonbashi:its south side about 12 m across and 5 m high.

The Koizuka milestone mound in Inume is a prefecturally designated historic site. The city writes that the north mound was cut away and the south mound keeps its original form well. The prefecture's guide to the Koshu Kaido calls it the only milestone mound on the Koshu Kaido to keep its appearance from the time, and gives the south mound as about 12 m across and 5 m high.

Prefectural historic site
21 ri from Nihonbashi
South mound about 12 m across, 5 m high

03 ／ Local dish

Small potatoes called seida-imo, after a magistrate,are simmered down sweet and salty.

Seida-imo is a local name for the potato around Uenohara, after Nakai Seidayu, the Koshu magistrate who promoted potato growing in the Edo period, the Agency for Cultural Affairs writes. Tamaji are small potatoes; the city explains that seida no tamaji is a dish of small potatoes left uneaten, simmered down in miso.

100-year Food, certified in fiscal 2024
Named for Nakai Seidayu, an Edo-period Koshu magistrate
Small potatoes simmered in miso

Living here

About 1 hour 20 minutes from Tokyo Station, 20 from Takao.

about 20,000 people

Uenohara Station in town is on the JR Chuo Main Line; the city lists it as the nearest station to the town hall and gives about 1 hour 20 minutes from Tokyo Station and 20 minutes from Takao Station. The JR East timetable has rapid and Chuo Special Rapid services for Tokyo with no change.

People living here: 22,669people
Area: 170.57km²
Households: 9,509households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,751yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 7 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Uenohara City in Japan35.630°N 139.109°E

Territory of Uenohara 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

21.7km

Yamanashi Prefecture: 大月市, 道志村, 都留市, 小菅村
Kanagawa Prefecture: 相模原市
Tokyo: 檜原村, 奥多摩町

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

Uenohara City isthis kind of town.

01Mushono Dainembutsu is a nembutsu rite that has been held at the Mushono meeting hall in Akiyama on the 16th of the first lunar month and on 16 August; it is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list as one of the Furyu-odori
02The great zelkova in the front yard of Uenohara Elementary School is a national Natural Monument; the Koizuka milestone mound in Inume is a prefecturally designated historic site, the 21st mound from Nihonbashi
03Seida-imo is a local name for the potato; the Agency for Cultural Affairs certified the food culture of Uenohara seida-imo, which includes seida no tamaji, small potatoes simmered in miso, as a 100-year Food in fiscal 2024

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Uenohara City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗