Information as of 13 August 2026
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Moving to Maebashi City
The prefectural capital of Gunma and a core city. A population of 326,000, 2 tertiary emergency hospitals in the city, free school meals, and free medical care for children through the high-school years. From Tokyo it is 1 hour 6 minutes, changing to the Shinkansen at Takasaki. Within the city there is a 1,700-metre difference in height, from the city hall at 107 m to Mount Akagi at over 1,800 m, so a winter morning looks different from one Maebashi address to another. Here we work through it in order, from the houses currently for sale to what actually differs between the southern foot of Mount Akagi and the plain.
Roadside stations: Green Flower Bokujo, Ogo, Fujimi, Maebashi Akagi, Akagi-no-Megumi / Hot springs and day baths: Fujimi Onsen, Maebashi Akagi-no-Yu, Maebashi Ekimae Tennen Onsen Yu~Yu, Ainoyama-no-Yu, Rikyu Maebashi-Minami, Shichifuku-no-Yu Maebashi, Maebashi Onsen, Kasukawa Onsen / RV parks: RV Park GUNPAKUmaebashi
Sources: roadside stations from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, list of "michi-no-eki" roadside stations (verified 2026-08-21) / hot springs and day baths from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) (verified 2026-08-20) / RV parks from Japan RV Association, list of certified "Kuruma-tabi" RV parks (verified 2026-08-20). 🔴 Only what is present is shown here — a town without these is not the lesser for it.
Last verified 2026-08-13
CHAPTER 01First, what kind of place Maebashi is
Ogo Town, Miyagi Village and Kasukawa Village were absorbed in 2004, and Fujimi Village in 2009, expanding the city to 311.59km². This is a city you cannot sum up in the single word "Maebashi".
Map of Maebashi City
You can zoom and pan. The marker is Maebashi City Hall (Ote-machi). The further north you go, the further you climb Mount Akagi.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
What should I know first about moving to Maebashi?
Ogo Town, Miyagi Village and Kasukawa Village were absorbed in 2004 and Fujimi Village in 2009, expanding the city to 311.59km². This is a city you cannot sum up in the single word "Maebashi", and the further north you go, the further you climb Mount Akagi.
CHAPTER 02Three areas, three ways of living
In Maebashi, the built-up area of a prefectural capital and the slopes of Mount Akagi live in one city. Under the same "Maebashi City" address, elevations run from 107 m to over 1,800 m. Sorting all 576 homes for sale gives 489 in the centre, 49 on the southern foot of Mount Akagi and 38 in the east (Ogo and Kasukawa), with medians of ¥14,800,000 on the southern foot against ¥18,800,000 in the centre — and the 130-metre difference in elevation changes daily life more than the price does.
| Areas | Rough elevation | Nearest station | Price range / what the place is like |
|---|---|---|---|
| The centre the built-up area and the plain | 72〜203m | Maebashi 78, Shin-Maebashi 78, Gunma-Soja 65 | 489 listings, far the most, ¥2,500,000–¥55,000,000 (median ¥18,800,000) / median elevation 102 m. The city hall, the prefectural office and Maebashi Red Cross Hospital. Having 2 tertiary emergency hospitals in the city is this belt's strength (§7). Built 1935–2025 |
| The southern foot of Mount Akagi the mountain side of Fujimi and Miyagi | 151〜1,344m | Yagihara 14, Shinzokekkan-Center 8, Maebashi 5 | 49 listings, ¥2,800,000–¥47,500,000 (median ¥14,800,000), the cheapest in the city / median elevation 228 m. With a median plot of 357㎡, this belt is far more generous than anywhere else in the city. 31 of the city's 71 landslide hazard zones are in Fujimi-machi alone (§5). For winter, read the table of elevation bands in §6 |
| East (Ogo & Kasukawa) the former Ogo Town and Kasukawa Village | 145〜198m | Ogo 13, Kitahara 7, Egi 6 | 38 listings, ¥3,200,000–¥49,000,000 (median ¥15,400,000) / median elevation 170 m. The Jomo Electric Railway runs through here. The Ogo district's population is almost flat at -0.6% since the merger, while Kasukawa is -16.0% and Miyagi -21.3% |
Where the centre and the southern foot of Mount Akagi lie in relation to each other
The colour of each circle is elevation (darker is higher). ■ = city hall (orange) / stations (green). Position, direction and scale follow Geospatial Information Authority coordinates (elevations also from the Geospatial Information Authority elevation API; the city hall and stations use published figures, and each district uses a representative point as a guide for the belt). You can scroll sideways.
The populations of the 4 former towns and villages are falling much faster than the city as a whole
| District | At the merger | as of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogo (absorbed 2004) | 17,298 | 17,188 | −0.6% |
| Miyagi (absorbed 2004) | 8,795 | 6,918 | −21.3% |
| Kasukawa (absorbed 2004) | 11,756 | 9,870 | −16.0% |
| Fujimi (absorbed 2009) | 22,767 | 21,658 | −4.9% |
| The city as a whole (Census, 2010 → 2025 preliminary) | 340,291 | 324,554 | −4.6% |
How life differs from one area to another
Prices and elevations are the medians of the properties currently for sale (all 576 SUUMO listings).
Suits = people who want to walk to the doctor and the shops / people with business at the prefectural or city office
What to watch = Sunday footfall in the central shopping district has halved in 20 years (§10). Walk the street on a Sunday afternoon to see what the "convenience" consists of
Suits = people who want a large plot cheaply / people who want to see Mount Akagi every day
What to watch = at 300–500 m, sub-zero mornings are the norm, and snow tyres are assumed from December to March (§6). 43.7% of the landslide hazard zones are in Fujimi-machi (§5). Sewerage covers 72.3% of the city — on the southern foot you need to check whether a connection is possible (§8)
Suits = people who want farmland with a railway
What to watch = since the merger the population is -0.6% in Ogo but -16.0% in Kasukawa and -21.3% in Miyagi. Even among the "former towns and villages" the movement is completely different. Look at the district's own figures for the future of its schools and shops
Which part of Maebashi should I live in?
The built-up area of a prefectural capital and the slopes of Mount Akagi live in one city, and under the same address elevations run from 107 m to over 1,800 m. The medians are ¥14,800,000 on the southern foot against ¥18,800,000 in the centre, but the 130-metre difference in elevation changes daily life more than the price does.
CHAPTER 03Trains and cars — how you get around
Getting around Maebashi comes down to one point: "the Shinkansen goes as far as Takasaki". To Tokyo it is 1 hour 6 minutes and ¥4,600 at best, changing at Takasaki. On local trains alone it is 2 hours 15 minutes and ¥2,090. Three ways to choose from, by budget and by time — that is where this city sits.
From Tokyo to Maebashi — 1 hour 6 minutes at best, changing at Takasaki
| How | Time | One way |
|---|---|---|
| Shinkansen + Ryomo Line (from Tokyo) | 1 hr 6 min at best allow 1 hr 15 min–20m | Ticket ¥2,090 + non-reserved express supplement ¥2,510 = ¥4,600. Change at Takasaki |
| Local trains only (from Tokyo) | 2 hr 15 min | ¥2,090 |
| Shonan-Shinjuku Line (from Shinjuku) | 2 hr 18 min | ¥2,090. At some times of day there is a through service with no change |
| Express bus (Busta Shinjuku) | 3 hr 25 min | ¥2,400 (¥2,200 paying online). 2 round trips a day |
| Express bus (Tokyo Station, Yaesu) | 2 hr 45 min | ¥3,000. 1 round trip a day (the early service leaving Maebashi at 2:45) |
| By car (Nerima IC → Maebashi IC) | 58 min normally | 92.1km, ETC ¥2,870 |
This is the actual fastest route. It was worked out by matching every service in the JR East timetable (August 2026 edition, weekdays).
Tokyo dep. 12:16 →[Joetsu / Hokuriku Shinkansen, 48 min]→ Takasaki arr. 13:04 →[5 min to change]→ Takasaki dep. 13:09 →[Ryomo Line, 13 min]→ Maebashi arr. 13:22
1 hour 6 minutes in total, ¥4,600 (ticket ¥2,090 + non-reserved express supplement ¥2,510).
The fastest each leg gets is 46 minutes Tokyo→Takasaki (8:41 dep. → 9:27 arr.) and 13 minutes Takasaki→Maebashi. 96 Shinkansen services stop at Takasaki on a weekday and there are 52 Ryomo Line services from Takasaki to Maebashi, so you can make the connection at any time of day. Allow 5–20 minutes waiting for the change.
On local trains alone it is 2 hours 15 minutes and ¥2,090. From Shinjuku there is also a through service with no change via the Shonan-Shinjuku Line (2 hours 18 minutes, ¥2,090). There are 3 ways to choose from, by budget and by time. The fastest connection was worked out by this site by matching every service in the JR East Joetsu / Hokuriku Shinkansen down timetable and the same, Ryomo Line down timetable (August 2026 edition, weekdays), allowing a minimum of 4 minutes to change. Lines at Maebashi Station from JR East timetable, Maebashi Station / Takasaki Station from the same, Takasaki Station / Maebashi City, access. Fares and journey times are the figures published by route-search sites (operator information). Express buses from Nihon Chuo Bus / expressways from NEXCO East, Dora-Pla / verified 2026-08-12
Where the railways run — 2 lines, JR and the Jomo Electric Railway
Two railways run through the city. The JR Ryomo Line (Shin-Maebashi, Maebashi, Maebashi-Oshima, Komagata) crosses the south of the city from west to east, and the Jomo Electric Railway (from Chuo-Maebashi through Joto, Mitsumata, Katakai, Kamiizumi, Akasaka, Shinzokekkan-Center, Egi, Ogo, Higoshi, Kitahara and Araya) runs east from the centre along the southern skirt of Mount Akagi towards Kiryu. The Jomo Electric Railway terminus is Chuo-Maebashi Station, a separate station from JR Maebashi (the two are linked by a shuttle bus for ¥180). From Shin-Maebashi Station the JR Joetsu Line branches north towards Gunma-Soja and Yagihara (Shibukawa City). The nearest stations in the property list below match the station names on this diagram directly. Position, direction and scale follow actual coordinates (station coordinates from OpenStreetMap). You can scroll sideways.
The towns where people are concentrated are broadly below 300 m (Tokizawa 5,596 people at 181 m, Kogure 4,244 at 303 m, Horikoshi-machi 3,679 at 205 m). Towns above 500 m have small populations (Miyosawa-machi 225 people at 562 m, Kasukawa-machi Nakanosawa 179 at 723 m, Fujimi-machi Akagisan 634 at 779 m). It is not a matter of "the former Fujimi Village, so it is cold" — you have to look town by town. Elevations were measured by taking the coordinates of a representative point for each town from the Geospatial Information Authority address search API and putting them through the same body's elevation API (check: 1,826.6 m against the 1,828 m triangulation point on Mount Kurobi). Populations from Maebashi City, population by town (30 June Reiwa 8) / verified 2026-08-12
✈ Airports
No airport with scheduled passenger services could be found within 100 km in a straight line.
🛣 Expressway junctions
This area has 2 entrances and exits (interchanges and junctions).
Kita-Kanto Expressway = Maebashi-Minami, Komagata
How long does it take from Maebashi to Tokyo?
It comes down to one point: "the Shinkansen goes as far as Takasaki". Changing at Takasaki it is 1 hour 6 minutes and ¥4,600 at best; on local trains alone 2 hours 15 minutes and ¥2,090; by express bus 3 hours 25 minutes and ¥2,400 — 3 ways to choose from, by budget and by time.
CHAPTER 04Homes actually on the market right now
SUUMO carries 576 listings, a deeper market than any area covered so far. All 576 were tallied — from ¥2,500,000 to ¥55,000,000, median ¥17,800,000. 87 (15%) are under ¥10,000,000 and 20 under ¥5,000,000. The median plot is 211 square metres (about 64 tsubo) and the median building 109 square metres. The median year built is 1997, and 136 (24%) were built in 1981 or earlier. The list is ordered cheapest first. Tap one to open its listing page with photographs.
"Nearest the station first" converts everything to minutes — a walk of ◯ min, ◯ min by bus plus ◯ min from the stop, ◯ km by car (reckoned at 30 km/h) — and compares those. Listings with no such information always appear last, whatever the sort.
Egi-machi¥2,500,000The centreElev. approx. 110 m / Land 341 m² (103 tsubo) / Building 80 m² (24 tsubo) / built 1975 / Shinzokekkan-Center Sta. bus 2 min+5 min walk8 photos →
Fujimi-machi Tokizawa¥2,800,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 180 m / Land 156 m² (47 tsubo) / Building 61 m² (18 tsubo) / built 1976 / Chuo-Maebashi Sta. 80 min walk3 photos →
Katsusawa-machi¥3,200,000East (Ogo & Kasukawa)Elev. approx. 170 m / Land 551 m² (167 tsubo) / Building 120 m² (36 tsubo) / built 1973 / Katakai Sta. 53 min walk9 photos →
Ninomiya-machi 494¥3,280,000The centreElev. approx. 100 m / Land 139 m² (42 tsubo) / Building 162 m² (49 tsubo) / built 1970View listing →
Shimonagaiso-machi¥3,400,000The centreElev. approx. 80 m / Land 173 m² (52 tsubo) / Building 93 m² (28 tsubo) / built 1980 / Maebashi-Oshima Sta. 26 min walk9 photos →
Iwagami-machi1¥3,480,000The centreElev. approx. 100 m / Land 44 m² (13 tsubo) / Building 50 m² (15 tsubo) / built 1971 / Chuo-Maebashi Sta. 28 min walk9 photos →
Iwagami-machi1¥3,480,000The centreElev. approx. 100 m / Land 44 m² (13 tsubo) / Building 50 m² (15 tsubo) / built 1971 / Chuo-Maebashi Sta. 28 min walk9 photos →
Miyosawa-machi¥3,500,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 420 m / Land 194 m² (59 tsubo) / Building 33 m² (10 tsubo) / built 2002 / Kitahara Sta., 9.9km10 photos →
Iwagami-machi3¥3,500,000The centreElev. approx. 110 m / Land 94 m² (28 tsubo) / Building 40 m² (12 tsubo) / built 1948 / Maebashi Sta. 42 min walk10 photos →
Mine-machi¥3,500,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 210 m / Land 911 m² (276 tsubo) / Building 156 m² (47 tsubo) / built 1983 / Shinzokekkan-Center Sta. bus 3 min+6 min walk9 photos →
Horikoshi-machi¥3,500,000East (Ogo & Kasukawa)Elev. approx. 160 m / Land 207 m² (63 tsubo) / Building 62 m² (19 tsubo) / built 1977 / Ogo Sta. 24 min walk4 photos →
Fujimi-machi Kogure¥3,800,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 220 m / Land 196 m² (59 tsubo) / Building 71 m² (21 tsubo) / built 1971 / Shinzokekkan-Center Sta. 79 min walk10 photos →
Fujimi-machi Komeno¥3,900,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 230 m / Land 530 m² (160 tsubo) / Building 63 m² (19 tsubo) / built 1998 / Yagihara Sta. 64 min walk4 photos →
Kozakashi-machi¥3,980,000The centreElev. approx. 190 m / Land 414 m² (125 tsubo) / Building 120 m² (36 tsubo) / built 1979 / Kamiizumi Sta. bus 9 min+16 min walk10 photos →
Hanageishi-machi644-27¥4,500,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 250 m / Land 444 m² (134 tsubo) / Building 75 m² (23 tsubo) / built 1988 / Higoshi Sta. 31 min walk9 photos →
Fujimi-machi Ishii¥4,900,000The southern foot of Mount AkagiElev. approx. 360 m / Land 102 m² (31 tsubo) / Building 85 m² (26 tsubo) / built 1982 / Yagihara Sta. 89 min walk1 photos →
The photographs are the images carried on SUUMO. They disappear once a listing ends. Check the real condition of a property on site.
See all 576 on SUUMO → Sources: SUUMO second-hand detached house listings (Maebashi City, Gunma). All 576 retrieved, with the first 16 shown (from ¥2,500,000) / verified 2026-08-19 Elevations are the map coordinates on each SUUMO listing page put through the Geospatial Information Authority elevation API (rounded to 10 m). For an exact elevation see GSI Maps .The city akiya bank — 11 listings
| Listings | 11 in all (central 1 / east 3 / west 1 / south 0 / north 6). The north area = Nankitsu, Haga, Ogo, Miyagi, Kasukawa and Fujimi |
|---|---|
| Sales concluded | 14 in FY Reiwa 3 / 11 in FY 4 / 3 in FY 5 / 4 in FY 6 / 7 in FY 7 |
Akiya bank — 12 listings
All 12 homes for sale registered on the municipal akiya bank (as verified on 17 August 2026). They are ordered cheapest first. For 12 of them the floor area of the building is not published, so the floor-plan button does not appear.
What is the cheapest house you can buy in Maebashi?
SUUMO carries 576 listings, a deeper market than any area covered so far. From ¥2,500,000 to ¥55,000,000, median ¥17,800,000, with 87 (15%) under ¥10,000,000. The median plot is 211 square metres and the median year built 1997.
CHAPTER 05Is the ground safe?
In Maebashi, the kind of risk is completely different between the southern foot of Mount Akagi and the plain.
Is this town inside a national earthquake-preparedness zone?
For each major earthquake, national law designates the areas where preparation is to be advanced. Whether a town is designated tells you directly how the national government views the shaking and tsunami expected there.
| Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area | Not covered (the whole of Gunma Prefecture is outside the scheme) |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area | 🔴 Designated |
| Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area | Not covered (the whole of Gunma Prefecture is outside the scheme) |
| Shaking of intensity 6-lower or above within 30 years | 6.5% (shindo 6-upper or above: 0.3%) At the Maebashi City Hall site. Surface ground AVS30 319 m/s, a sand-and-gravel terrace |
Look up an address on J-SHIS → Designations from the Cabinet Office list of designated municipalities (Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area／Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area／Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area ) / probability and surface ground from theNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, J-SHIS earthquake hazard information API (2024 edition, average case, all earthquakes), queried at the town hall coordinates / verified 2026-08-13
Landslides — 7 in 10 of the 71 zones are in the 4 former towns and villages
2019, Typhoon Hagibis — one typhoon, and the reason for evacuating differed within the city
| Type | Districts covered | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Landslide (level 3) | Naegashima-machi in the Miyagi district (Yunosawa, Shintohara) / Fujimi-machi Akagisan (Minowa, Odo) | 414 households 1,175 people |
| Flood (level 4) | The Tone River basin (all of Iwagami and Shikishima, and elsewhere) | 43,753 households 98,596 people |
| Landslide (level 4) | Fujimi-machi Akagisan (Odo) | 30 households 44 people |
The actual damage was 0 homes flooded above floor level, 0 below floor level, and no casualties, with 23 partially damaged. On the other hand, of the 47 cases of fallen trees, landslips and the like, all 12 cases of earth inflow or deposit were in Miyagi (6), Kasukawa (1) and Fujimi (5). Of the 24 fallen-tree cases, 19 (79%) were in Miyagi (9), Fujimi (4), Kasukawa (3) and Ogo (3).
Maebashi's daily rainfall that day, 233.5mm, was the 3rd highest since records began in 1896.
Source: Maebashi City, report on the response to Typhoon No. 19 of Reiwa 1 (PDF) / verified 2026-08-12
Mount Akagi is an active volcano
| Active volcano? | Yes, it is active. The Maebashi Local Meteorological Observatory writes that "Gunma Prefecture has 5 active volcanoes: Mount Asama, Kusatsu-Shirane, Nikko-Shirane, Mount Akagi and Mount Haruna" |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | The 3 volcanoes under round-the-clock continuous observation in Gunma Prefecture are Mount Asama, Kusatsu-Shirane and Nikko-Shirane. The Japan Meteorological Agency classes Mount Akagi as one where it "carries out planned survey observations" |
| Eruption warning level | Not introduced |
| Most recent recorded eruption | 18 May 1251 (the Japan Meteorological Agency adds that "no ejecta from this eruption have been found") |
When a property catches your eye, open these 3
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Overlay Hazard MapMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Enter an address and it lays flooding, landslides and inland flooding onto one map. Start here.
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Maebashi City flood and landslide hazard mapMaebashi City, revised June Reiwa 8
It covers the Tone, Momonoki, Hirose, Arato and Akagi-Shirakawa rivers. It comes in 2 sheets, north and south. The city explains that the projection assumes "400–600mm of rain falling over 1 to 3 days = a half to a third of Maebashi's annual rainfall".
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List of landslide hazard zonesMaebashi City
It gives the location of all 71. 67 are red zones, so for a property on the southern foot always check at the level of the individual lot.
Open → List (PDF) →
Is the disaster risk high in Maebashi?
The city is designated under the Tokyo Inland Earthquake emergency measures area, but the chance of shindo 6-lower or above in 30 years is 6.5% (6-upper or above 0.3%). That said, the kind of risk is completely different between the southern foot of Mount Akagi and the plain.
CHAPTER 06What summer and winter are like
The figures below are from the Maebashi Local Meteorological Observatory (elevation 112 m). When you look at a house on the southern foot of Mount Akagi, read these figures with the difference in elevation added. What winter looks like in each elevation band is set out immediately below.
The twelve months of temperature, set out as they are
The left end of each bar is the average daily minimum for that month and the right end the average daily maximum (Maebashi, the 30-year average for 1991–2020).
These are the numbers for how summer nights and winter mornings compare with Tokyo
| Days per year | Maebashi | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights minimum 25°C or above | 9.3 days | 17.8 days |
| Days above 35°C maximum 35°C or above | 13.5 days | 4.8 days |
| Days above 30°C maximum 30°C or above | 58.2 days | 52.1 days |
| Frost days minimum below 0°C | 46.2 days | 15.2 days |
| Days below freezing all day maximum below 0°C | 0.0 days | 0.0 days |
For snow, the annual total snowfall is 19cm and the normal for maximum snow depth is 11cm.
Source:Japan Meteorological Agency, normals for Maebashi (by month) /the same, day counts by class (view=a2)／the same, Tokyo (all 30-year averages for 1991–2020) / verified 2026-08-14A useful guide is Numata (390 m), 278 m higher and in the same prefecture. Its January daily low is 4.1°C lower than Maebashi's (−0.5°C → −4.6°C) and its annual mean is 2.9°C lower. The settlements on the southern foot stand at Miyosawa-machi 562 m, Kasukawa-machi Nakanosawa 723 m, Fujimi-machi Akagisan 779 m and Lake Onuma 1,344 m. In other words, there are houses higher still than Numata.
How a winter morning changes with the elevation band
Even within Maebashi City, winter life changes with the height at which the house stands. Temperature, snow, roads and what your car needs are set out by elevation band.
| Elevation band | Winter temperature and snow | Roads, and what your car needs |
|---|---|---|
| 107–200 m city hall 107 m, observatory 112 m. The central built-up area and the plain |
January daily low −0.5°C. The normal for maximum snow depth is 5cm, total snowfall 19cm, and snow falls on 26.1 days a year. When it settles it is a few centimetres, and on most days it melts during the day | Summer tyres get you around most of the time. Only on days when heavy snow is forecast do you prepare for morning ice |
| 300–500 m the mountain side of Ogo, Miyagi and Kasukawa, and upper Fujimi |
Numata, at 390 m in the same prefecture, has a January daily low of −4.6°C (4.1°C lower than Maebashi) and an annual mean 2.9°C lower. Sub-zero mornings become the norm, and the road surface freezes in the shade | In its notice of winter road closures, Gunma Prefecture writes: "at higher elevations there is a risk of snow from October, so please fit winter tyres and carry chains". It is safest to plan on snow tyres from December to March |
| 500–800 m Miyosawa-machi 562 m, Kasukawa-machi Nakanosawa 723 m, Fujimi-machi Akagisan 779 m |
Snow that falls stays in the shade. From this height up you enter the range where snow lies from mid-December to the end of April (the Maebashi Convention and Visitors Bureau's guide) | From this band upwards, Prefectural Route 16, the Ogo-Akagi line, closes for the winter (9.1 km from the Akagi Onsen entrance to Konuma, 10:00 on 16 December to 10:00 on 6 April). Snow tyres plus chains, and plan your routes around Prefectural Route 4 |
| 1,300 m (the mountain top) around Lake Onuma in Fujimi-machi Akagisan, 1,345 m |
10–15°C colder in winter than the Maebashi built-up area (Convention and Visitors Bureau). In its guide to the snow festival, Maebashi City writes that "it can drop to minus 10 to 15 degrees". Lake Onuma freezes over, and ice fishing for pond smelt runs from early January to late March (in 2026 it opens on 15 January) | One measured example is 45cm of snow in the Mount Akagi Visitor Center car park (16 January 2024). That same day, Prefectural Route 4 had been cleared from the old toll gate. The road up to the mountain top in winter is Prefectural Route 4 (the Maebashi-Akagi line), and winter tyres are essential. The city also asks people to fit chains |
How cold is winter in Maebashi?
At the Maebashi Local Meteorological Observatory (elevation 112 m) the January daily low is −0.5°C and the August daily high 31.7°C; annual sunshine of 2,153.7h is more than Tokyo and annual rainfall of 1,247mm is on the low side. When you look at a house on the southern foot of Mount Akagi, read these figures with the difference in elevation added.
CHAPTER 07Shops, hospitals, schools
Hospitals — this is where "because it is the prefectural capital" really holds
| Tertiary emergency care | 2 in the city. Maebashi Red Cross Hospital (Asakura-machi, 555 beds, 24 ICU beds, an advanced critical care centre — one of only 2 Red Cross hospitals in Japan with one, along with Tokushima Red Cross Hospital) and Gunma University Hospital (Showa-machi, 731 beds, a designated advanced treatment hospital and the Gunma Prefecture critical care centre) |
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| Doctor-helicopter | The base hospital for the Gunma Prefecture doctor-helicopter is Maebashi Red Cross Hospital. It flies 8:45–18:00 (or until 30 minutes before sunset), working across borders with Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama and Niigata |
| Medical resources in the city | 20 hospitals with 4,355 beds, 1,638 doctors and 343 general clinics. Secondary emergency care runs on a hospital rota, with 4 hospitals on holidays and 4 at night |
| Nights and holidays | The Maebashi City night and holiday clinic (Asahi-cho, on the ground floor of the Maebashi Medical Center). At night, internal medicine and paediatrics every day from 20:00 to 23:00. On holiday daytimes, internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery and ENT |
Schools — for now, closures and mergers are happening on the central built-up side
| Municipal primary schools | 46 schools (plus 2 branch schools), 14,267 pupils |
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| Municipal lower-secondary schools | 20 schools (plus 1 branch school), 7,368 pupils |
| Upper secondary | 12 in the city. 9 prefectural (Maebashi, Maebashi Girls', Maebashi-Minami, Maebashi-Nishi, Maebashi-Higashi, Seta Agriculture and Forestry, Maebashi Technical, Maebashi Commercial, Maebashi Seiryo) / Maebashi Municipal High / 2 private (Kyoai Gakuen, Maebashi Ikuei). Gunma Prefecture's public high schools take applicants from the whole prefecture as one district |
| Universities | Gunma University (Aramaki = joint education and informatics / Showa = medicine) and 4 other universities in the city, 6,840 students. Gunma National College of Technology is in the city too |
| Mergers and closures | The 5 mergers since Heisei 23 (Mizuki JHS / Haga ES / Momoi ES / Wakaba ES / Meio JHS) were all in the former city area. Not one school in the former Fujimi, Miyagi, Kasukawa or Ogo is among them. That said, the basic policy on school placement applies for FY Reiwa 7–16, with a review planned for FY Reiwa 12 |
How everyday shopping changes from district to district
| District | Food supermarkets | Home centres |
|---|---|---|
| Fujimi | Beisia Maebashi Fujimi Mall (Haranogo, 9:00–20:00) / Torisen Tokizawa (9:00–22:00) | 2 Komeri stores |
| Ogo | Fressay Ogo (9:00–21:00) / Beisia Maebashi Ogo Mall (9:00–20:00) | Cainz Ogo (Higoshi-machi, 9:30–19:00) |
| Miyagi | A-Coop Miyagi (Hanageishi-machi, 10:00–19:30). For a big shop, head to Fressay Ogo or Beisia Maebashi Ogo Mall in the Ogo district | 1 Komeri store |
| Kasukawa | The nearest food supermarkets that can be confirmed on the chains' own store lists are in the neighbouring Ogo district (Fressay Ogo and Beisia Maebashi Ogo Mall) | 1 Komeri store |
For public transport, the 4 former town and village areas are served by demand-responsive buses you book in advance (Fujimi and Haga = Run-Run Bus; Ogo, Miyagi and Kasukawa = Furusato Bus. Both cost ¥300 for an adult and you telephone to book the time you want). On the railway, the Jomo Electric Railway passes through Ogo and Kasukawa, and from the Fujimi district Ogo Station is the nearest. The Jomo Electric Railway terminus is Chuo-Maebashi Station, linked to JR Maebashi Station by a ¥180 shuttle bus. Sources: Beisia / A-Coop Miyagi / Fressay / Cainz Ogo / Maebashi City, location optimisation plan summary (PDF) / Run-Run Bus / Jomo Electric Railway / verified 2026-08-12
What is emergency medical care like in Maebashi?
🔴 There are 2 tertiary emergency hospitals in the city: Maebashi Red Cross Hospital (555 beds; one of only 2 Red Cross hospitals in Japan with an advanced critical care centre, along with Tokushima Red Cross Hospital) and Gunma University Hospital (731 beds). The base hospital for the Gunma Prefecture doctor-helicopter is Maebashi Red Cross Hospital as well.
CHAPTER 08What it costs you every year after you buy
| Water | Two rises in the past 4 years (about 17% on average in April Reiwa 4 and about 4% in April Reiwa 7, about 21.7% in all). The standing charge is ¥970 a month for a 13mm connection (before tax) |
|---|---|
| Water and sewerage | ¥4,620 for 20㎥ over 2 months (13mm connection, including tax) / ¥7,315 for 30㎥ / ¥12,705 for 50㎥ |
| Sewerage | Sewerage reaches 72.3% of the population (95.9% counting all wastewater treatment). About 28% use a combined treatment septic tank or a rural community sewerage scheme. For a property on the southern foot you need to check whether a connection is possible |
| Flat-rate resident tax | The municipal portion is ¥3,000, the standard rate (no addition of the city's own). The addition is Gunma Prefecture's "Gunma green prefectural citizens' tax" of ¥700 |
The relocation support grant is ¥1,000,000 for a household, ¥600,000 for a single person, and ¥500,000 more per child under 18. Applications run from 1 April Reiwa 8 to 5 February Reiwa 9, within a year of moving in, and close when the budget is used up. The ¥500,000 child addition is lower than in many other municipalities (¥1,000,000). Sources: Maebashi City, relocation and settlement support menu / the same, FY Reiwa 8 relocation support grant / verified 2026-08-12
How much is water in Maebashi?
There have been two rises in the past 4 years, about 21.7% in all. Water and sewerage together now come to ¥4,620 for 20㎥ over 2 months (13mm connection, including tax). Sewerage reaches 72.3% of the population, and about 28% use a combined treatment septic tank or a rural community sewerage scheme — for a property on the southern foot you need to check whether a connection is possible.
CHAPTER 09What happens when you want to sell
Maebashi has 576 second-hand detached houses on SUUMO — the largest market of any covered on this site. That is 1 listing per 566 people against a population of 326,194. And in the Reiwa 8 official land price survey Maebashi's land is up 0.1% for residential, 0.4% for commercial and 3.0% for industrial — all three are rising.
| What to look at | Maebashi City in practice |
|---|---|
| Depth of the market | SUUMO 576 plus 11 on the city akiya bank and 12 on the prefectural akiya bank. 1 per 566 people. 87 (15%) are under ¥10,000,000 and 20 under ¥5,000,000 |
| Price band | ¥2,500,000–¥55,000,000, median ¥17,800,000 (all 576). By area the medians are ¥18,800,000 in the centre against ¥14,800,000 on the southern foot of Mount Akagi and ¥15,400,000 in the east |
| Land prices | Residential land averages ¥51,500 per ㎡, up 0.1%. Commercial ¥70,100 per ㎡, up 0.4%. Industrial ¥22,000 per ㎡, up 3.0%. All uses ¥57,000 per ㎡, up 0.4% |
| Where it stands in the prefecture | The Gunma Prefecture average for residential land is ¥37,600 per ㎡, unchanged. Maebashi is at 1.37 times that level and rising faster than the prefectural average. That said, Takasaki is ¥58,300 per ㎡ and up 0.6%, and its commercial land at ¥137,200 per ㎡ is about twice Maebashi's |
| The pool of buyers | 326,194 people, and the first core city in Gunma Prefecture (since 2009). The Census went from 340,291 in 2010 to 324,554 in the 2025 preliminary figures (−4.6%), and the city was outside the list of municipalities at risk of disappearing on both occasions (§10) |
| What to watch | Even with the city as a whole flat, the Miyagi district is −21.3% since the merger and the Kasukawa district −16.0% (§2). What you can sell for is set by that district's population, not by the city average. |
Will the house I buy sell when I want to sell it?
576 on SUUMO — the largest market of any covered on this site, at 1 per 566 people. And land prices are up 0.1% for residential, 0.4% for commercial and 3.0% for industrial — all three rising.
CHAPTER 10Who lives here, and how many
The Census went from 340,291 in 2010 to 324,554 in the 2025 preliminary figures (−4.6%). District by district, Miyagi is −21.3% since the merger and Kasukawa −16.0%, moving quite differently from the city-wide figure. Look at the figures for the district you would live in, not the city average. Sources: Population Strategy Council, Reiwa 6 report (PDF) / Maebashi City, population and households / the same, about core city status / verified 2026-08-12
The information on this site is gathered by an AI that visits primary sources — municipalities, the Japan Meteorological Agency, national statistics — on a regular cycle, and it is updated with a source and a date of verification attached.
Of the 327,659 people living in Maebashi City, 11,686 are foreign residents. That is above the national average (3.26%).
Across Japan, foreign residents make up 3.26% of the total population (4,031,159 of 123,767,642).
34 municipalities in Japan are above 10%.
Source: calculated by this site from the municipality-level tables of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Population, population change and households based on the Basic Resident Register" (as of 1 January Reiwa 8, published 2026-07-29). The ministry's publication page / verified 2026-08-17
Is Maebashi's population falling?
326,194 people (end of June Reiwa 8), with the Census going from 340,291 in 2010 to 324,554 in the 2025 preliminary figures (−4.6%). The city was outside the list of municipalities at risk of disappearing on both occasions, in 2014 and 2024. District by district, though, Miyagi is −21.3% since the merger and Kasukawa −16.0%, moving quite differently.
CHAPTER 11Community life and the year's events
Getting on with the neighbourhood in Maebashi turns on the jichikai, the neighbourhood association. In this city, the head of the jichikai takes on municipal administrative work directly — work closely tied to the area, beginning with delivering the city newsletter.
| Where you live | What community life involves |
|---|---|
| How the jichikai works | From April Showa 42 the city asked "administrative jichi commissioners" to deliver the newsletter and so on, but in April Heisei 25 it reviewed the arrangement and now commissions the head of the jichikai directly. Circulars and deliveries from the city come through the jichikai. |
| Money from the city | The jichikai block grant — a grant for running local affairs, for social participation by older residents, for keeping the environment tidy and for lifelong learning, paid to the jichikai twice a year (end of June and end of October). There is also a grant towards building and maintaining neighbourhood meeting facilities |
| The centre | Bin duty and the circular folder are the main things. Sunday footfall in the built-up area has halved in 20 years (§10), and the shopping street's events are changing shape |
| The southern foot of Mount Akagi and the east | These are long-standing settlements. District festivals such as the Ogo Gion Festival carry on. A population fall of −21.3% in Miyagi and −16.0% in Kasukawa feeds straight into how often the duties come round to you (§2) |
What comes round every year
Maebashi has three great festivals: the Hatsuichi Festival on 9 January (a fixture of the new year, never postponed), the Maebashi Tanabata Festival in July (10–12 July in Reiwa 8), and the Maebashi Festival in October (11–12 October). On top of that, the Maebashi Fireworks Display on 8 August reaches its 70th edition in Reiwa 8.
And apart from the events, one thing always comes: the karakkaze dry wind. From December to March the prevailing wind is fixed at north-northwest, annual sunshine is 2,153.7 hours (227 hours more than Tokyo) and annual rainfall 1,247mm (351mm less than Tokyo). Winter is clear, dry and windy, with sub-zero mornings — that is what a Maebashi winter really is (§6).
Source:Maebashi City, take part in your jichikai／the same, jichikai block grant / events from Maebashi Convention and Visitors Bureau, list of events / climate from the same sources as §6 / verified 2026-08-18What does the jichikai do in Maebashi?
🔴 In this city the head of the jichikai takes on municipal administrative work directly. The arrangement was reviewed in April Heisei 25, and the head of the jichikai is now commissioned directly, so circulars and deliveries from the city come through the jichikai. The city pays a jichikai block grant twice a year.
CHAPTER 12Things nearby that move land prices
What tells on land in Maebashi is its relationship with Takasaki, the expressways, and elevation.
1. Having Takasaki next door
| City | Average, residential land | Average, commercial land / year-on-year |
|---|---|---|
| Takasaki City | ¥58,300/m² (+0.6%) | ¥137,200/m² (+1.4%) |
| Maebashi City | ¥51,500/m² (+0.1%) | ¥70,100/m² (+0.4%) |
| Isesaki City | ¥33,000/m² (0.0%) | ¥42,000/m² (-0.1%) |
| Gunma Average | ¥37,600/m² (0.0%) | ¥66,800/m² (+0.3%) |
The prefectural office is in Maebashi; the Shinkansen stops at Takasaki. For residential land the gap is 1.13 times, but for commercial land it is 1.96 times — the fact that shopping and changing trains centre on Takasaki shows up directly as the difference in commercial land prices. You change at Takasaki to go up to Tokyo, too (§3). Choosing Maebashi means living in the prefectural capital and using the next city as your front door.
2. Industrial land rising
Maebashi's industrial land is up 3.0%, an order of magnitude above residential (+0.1%) and commercial (+0.4%). Across Gunma Prefecture industrial land is up 2.9% as well. At the point where the Kan-etsu and Kita-Kanto expressways meet, demand from logistics is pushing land prices up. This is the single strongest force holding Maebashi's land prices up, and the reason residential land is holding flat rather than falling.
3. Elevation varying by 1,700 m within one city
The city hall is at 107.6 m and Maebashi Station at 103.9 m. From there, going north — Fujimi-machi Tokizawa 181 m, Hanageishi-machi 285 m, Ishii 350 m, Miyosawa-machi 562 m, Kasukawa-machi Nakanosawa 723 m, Fujimi-machi Akagisan 779 m, Lake Onuma on Mount Akagi 1,344 m, Mount Kurobi 1,828 m (§2). The median elevation of the homes for sale opens up the same way: 102 m in the centre against 228 m on the southern foot of Mount Akagi.
That difference in elevation becomes, directly, the cost of winter living. At 300–500 m mornings are below freezing, and snow tyres go on from December to March. Prefectural Route 16 closes for the winter from 16 December to 6 April (about 3.7 months, §6). Read the median of ¥14,800,000 on the southern foot as being lower by exactly that winter.
4. Footfall in the central shopping district halving
Pedestrian counts over 8 hours on a Sunday at 12 points in the central shopping district went from 25,628 in Heisei 16 to 11,951 in Reiwa 5 (−53.4%) (§10; the method changed partway through). What is holding commercial land at +0.4% is not bustle in the town centre but the city's function as the prefectural capital. If the centre is on your list, walk that street on a Sunday afternoon before you decide.
Sources: land prices from[Official land prices] (Reiwa 8) Table of average prices and year-on-year change by prefecture, municipality and land use (compiled by the Land Information Center from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official land price survey, 27 April Reiwa 8) / the prefectural overview from Reiwa 8 official land price results (Gunma Prefecture) / elevation, winter closures and climate as in §2 and §6, footfall as in §10 / verified 2026-08-18What decides land prices in Maebashi?
Having Takasaki next door. The prefectural office is in Maebashi; the Shinkansen stops at Takasaki. For residential land the gap is 1.13 times, but for commercial land it is 1.96 times (Takasaki ¥137,200 per ㎡ against Maebashi ¥70,100 per ㎡) — the fact that shopping and changing trains centre on Takasaki shows up directly.
CHAPTER 13What this place makes
What a place earns its living from shows up both at your dinner table and in your work once you live there. The amount raised through the hometown tax scheme is a rough measure of how many products a place has that people all over Japan choose.
762nd of the 1,788 municipalities in Japan, and 15th within Gunma Prefecture
We have not yet been able to describe this place's local specialities
I (an AI) searched the official Maebashi City site and the tourism and product association sites the municipality points to, but could not find an officially published list of local specialities (verified 20 August 2026).
This site is built by checking sources one at a time, so that an AI does not introduce information at odds with the facts. Because I could not find information with a source, nothing is written here yet. This does not mean there are no local specialities — please bear with us.
If you would like this filled in,please tell us the official page . We will put it here with a source and the date it was checked.
You can support a town without living there
Even if a move is still some way off, you can be involved from today through the hometown tax scheme. Your donation goes straight to the municipality, and you choose what it is spent on. A way to give something back to a place you got to know here.
Source:Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Survey on the state of the hometown tax scheme (conducted FY Reiwa 8)", the table of amounts and numbers received (provisional FY Reiwa 7 settlement), tallied by this site. The rank is out of all 1,788 municipalities in that table / verified 2026-08-14What does Maebashi earn its living from?
Furusato nozei receipts came to ¥347,280,000 in FY Reiwa 7 (18,236 donations), 762nd of the 1,788 municipalities in Japan and 15th within Gunma Prefecture.
CHAPTER 14A message from Maebashi City
How the receiving side sees it. Maebashi City builds its relocation and settlement site around "know / live / connect", laying out advice, housing, work, childcare and even taking up farming on a single page. The desk is the Public Relations and Brand Strategy Division, Future Creation Department.
| What the city does | Detail |
|---|---|
| Relocation concierge | A desk for advice on housing and finding work. Online relocation consultations are available too |
| Akiya renovation grant | Within a third of the works cost, up to ¥1,000,000. An amount that assumes you buy an empty house and do it up |
| Akiya use and reuse network | For people looking for an empty detached house in the city, it introduces registered estate agents. This is separate from the akiya bank |
| Work | Job Center Maebashi (a Hello Work desk plus a children's room and a nursing space) / the Start-up Center (incubation offices, challenge shops and a start-up advice desk) |
| A life with farming | The "Ikaiyama Fureai" allotments, 50㎡ × 54 plots, ¥5,400 a year / settlement support for new entrants = for people moving in who take up farming full-time at 60 or under, half the monthly rent of a farmhouse or similar (up to ¥20,000, for up to 2 years) |
| Places for children | 85 after-school clubs (as of April Reiwa 7) / local terakoya (study support for junior high pupils) at 19 venues in the city / 4 sick-child and convalescent-child childcare centres |
| Money | The relocation support grant (¥1,000,000 for a household / ¥600,000 for a single person / ¥500,000 more per child under 18) is set out in §8. Applications run from 1 April Reiwa 8 to 5 February Reiwa 9, within a year of moving in, closing when the budget is used up |
Maebashi City relocation and settlement site →
Does Maebashi welcome people moving in? Is there support?
The city builds its relocation and settlement site around "know / live / connect", and the desk is the Public Relations and Brand Strategy Division, Future Creation Department. The akiya renovation grant covers within a third of the works cost, up to ¥1,000,000. There is also the akiya use and reuse network — a scheme separate from the akiya bank that introduces registered estate agents to people looking for an empty house.
CHAPTER 15A year in Maebashi
Temperatures, and what happens in daily life. A year in Maebashi is set by the karakkaze dry wind and Mount Akagi. Winter is clear, dry and windy, with sub-zero mornings (January daily low −0.5°C, 46.2 frost days). Summer has more hot days than Tokyo (13.5 days above 35°C against Tokyo's 4.8). The temperatures are from the Maebashi Local Meteorological Observatory (elevation 112 m), and for a house on the southern foot you read them with the difference in elevation added (§6).
| Month | Maebashi that month |
|---|---|
| month 1 | −0.5 to 9.1°C. 9 January is the Hatsuichi Festival (never postponed, one of Maebashi's three great festivals). There are 46.2 frost days a year (Tokyo 15.2). Lake Onuma on Mount Akagi freezes over, and ice fishing for pond smelt opens in early January |
| month 2 | 0.0 to 10.0°C. AKAGI WHITE WEEK (31 January and 5 and 7 February in Reiwa 8). The city notes that on the mountain top it can drop to −10 to −15°C |
| month 3 | 3.1 to 13.5°C. The last month of the karakkaze — from December to March the prevailing wind is fixed at north-northwest |
| month 4 | 8.2 to 19.3°C. The Akagi Nanmen Senbonzakura cherry festival (4–19 April in Reiwa 8; one of Japan's 100 best cherry blossom sites). The winter closure of Prefectural Route 16 is lifted on 6 April. At the end of the month comes the Suga-no-Sono wisteria festival |
| month 5 | 13.6 to 24.2°C. The spring rose garden festival (9–31 May, Shikishima Park). The most comfortable time of year |
| month 6 | 18.0 to 26.8°C. Annual rainfall is 1,247mm, 351mm less than Tokyo — the rainy season is relatively light here too |
| month 7 | 22.0 to 30.5°C. The Maebashi Tanabata Festival (10–12 July, one of the three great festivals) and the Ogo Gion Festival (25–26 July). There are 21.8 days of thunder a year, concentrated in July and August |
| month 8 | Daily high 31.7°C, 13.5 days above 35°C (Tokyo 4.8). The record high is 41.0°C (5 August 2025). 1 August, the Mount Akagi lantern festival / 8 August, the Maebashi Fireworks Display (70th edition) / 30 August, the Akagi Onuma and Shirakaba marathon |
| month 9 | 19.3 to 27.3°C. The typhoon month. In Typhoon Hagibis in 2019, the reason for evacuating differed within the same city (§5) |
| month 10 | 13.2 to 21.7°C. The Maebashi Festival (11–12 October, one of the three great festivals) and the autumn rose festa. Mount Akagi turns colour |
| month 11 | 6.9 to 16.4°C. The Gunma Marathon (3 November) and the Otori Festival — the rooster fair, second only to the Hatsuichi in tradition. The karakkaze begins |
| month 12 | 1.9 to 11.5°C. At 10:00 on 16 December, Prefectural Route 16, the Ogo-Akagi line, closes for the winter (until 6 April, about 3.7 months). Total snowfall is 19cm a year and the normal maximum snow depth 11cm — on the plain, when it settles it is a few centimetres |
What is a year in Maebashi like?
The karakkaze and Mount Akagi set the year. Winter is clear, dry and windy, with 46.2 frost days a year. Summer has more hot days than Tokyo, 13.5 above 35°C (Tokyo 4.8). 9 January is the Hatsuichi Festival, and Lake Onuma on Mount Akagi freezes over, with ice fishing for pond smelt opening in early January.
CHAPTER 16The people who run this city
When you are thinking about moving, who is running this town now and where they are taking it is something the people about to live here want to know more than the people already living here. This chapter lines up only what Maebashi City publishes itself, with sources. 🔴 As of 22 August 2026, following the official site, I (an AI) could find 3 of the 6 items below.
| What is published | Published | What you can read |
|---|---|---|
| About the mayor | Profile of Mayor Ogawa | Name, career, greeting |
| Policy address | Could not find one | What they say they will do this year |
| List of council members | Could not find one | Who the members are, and their groupings |
| Council broadcasts and recordings | Could not find one | Whether you can watch the council in session |
| Searchable minutes | Board of Education agenda items and minutes | Whether you can search past debates by wording |
| Master plan | Basic policy and comprehensive plan | How many years ahead this town has decided |
🔴 The names, photographs and social media of individual council members are not carried on this site. We point you to where you can read them.
Once you have moved, when your own turn to decide comes round is something those three will tell you.
🔴 And mayors change. This site always records the date it checked (2026-08-22), and reopens the original page each time to confirm by machine that the name is still there. If you notice something has nonetheless gone out of date, please let us know.
Who runs Maebashi City now?
🔴 I (an AI) could not find the name of the mayor of Maebashi City on the official site (verified 22 August 2026). Writing a guess would be the greater discourtesy, so nothing is written. What this site looks for is six things: an introduction to the head of the municipality, the policy address, the list of assembly members, live broadcasts of the assembly, a search of the minutes, and the comprehensive plan. 🔴 No judgement of good or bad is made here. Only whether something is published or not.
CHAPTER 17Where to go on a day off
What does not show up in the numbers of a house search, but bears directly on how satisfied you are once you live there, is days off. This chapter counts, on the same measure for every area, the places you can go on a day off in Maebashi and the places family and friends can stay when they visit. In this area there are now 8 hot springs and day baths, 3 amusement parks, zoos or aquariums and 4 roadside stations. 🔴 All counts are the numbers registered in the map data (OpenStreetMap) — in reality there may be more.
| What | Number counted, and names |
|---|---|
| ♨ Hot springs and day baths | Fujimi Onsen / Fureaikan, Maebashi Akagi-no-Yu, Maebashi Ekimae Tennen Onsen Yu~Yu, Ainoyama-no-Yu, Rikyu Maebashi-Minami, Shichifuku-no-Yu Maebashi, Maebashi Onsen / Kur-i-Terme, Kasukawa Onsen / Genki Land (8 facilities) |
| 🏯 Castles and castle sites | Not found in the map data |
| 🎡 Amusement parks, zoos and aquariums | Runapark, Rokku indoor pool, Maebashi municipal pool (3 places) |
| 🖼 Museums, galleries and memorial halls | Maebashi City Education Museum, Maebashi City Waterworks Museum, Maebashi City Kasukawa Museum of History and Folklore, Maebashi Literary Museum, Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum, Gunma Local Art Museum, Hagiwara Sakutaro Memorial Museum, the former American Board Missionary Residence and 11 museums in all |
| ⛩ Shrines and temples | 56 shrines and 64 temples. Those with a Wikipedia entry are Santai Shrine, Ogo Shrine, Akagi Shrine, Zensho-ji, Jodo-in, Jisho-in, Zenyo-ji and Hie Shrine |
| 🚗 Roadside stations | Green Flower Bokujo, Ogo, Fujimi, Maebashi Akagi, Akagi-no-Megumi (4 stations) |
| 🐕 Dog runs | Not found in the map data |
| 🛣 Expressway service and parking areas | No expressway service or parking area was found in this area |
Somewhere to stay — for family and friends, and for your own travels
| What | Number counted |
|---|---|
| 🏨 Hotels and ryokan | 12 |
| 🏠 Guesthouses and hostels | 7 |
| ⛺ Campsites and auto-campsites | Akagi Warabe-no-Sato, Akagi Bible Camp, Akagi Bungalow Village Shibata Tent, Akagi Park Campsite (4 places) |
| 🏕 Glamping | Not found among the campsite or hotel names |
| 🚐 RV parks (overnight in your vehicle) | RV Park GUNPAKUmaebashi |
This table is the result of me (an AI) putting the same question to the map data for every area (areas are retrieved in batches, so the verification date on some pages is a day apart). Facilities not registered on the map are not counted. "Not found" does not mean "there are none" — nor that the town is any the lesser for it.
Sources: the counts and names of facilities fromOpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) / RV parks fromJapan RV Association, list of certified "Kuruma-tabi" RV parks / roadside stations fromMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, list of "michi-no-eki" roadside stations/ Verified 2026-08-20Are there places to go on a day off, and places to stay?
Counting from the map data (OpenStreetMap) and the lists kept by the Japan RV Association and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, there are 8 hot springs and day baths, 3 amusement parks, zoos or aquariums, 4 roadside stations and 12 hotels and ryokan. Facilities not on the map are not counted, so in reality there may be more (see §17).
What I (an AI) was able to find on this town's official site
This site reads the official websites of every area it covers against the same 30 items, out of 100, measuring how quickly someone thinking of moving can reach the information they need. What was measured is the official website of Maebashi City, and the total was 56.7 points (measured 20 August 2026).
"Not found" does not mean "there is none." It means I followed the official site and could not find it. Tell us the published page and the next measurement will reflect it.
| Area | Score | What was found |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started with a move | 11 / 20 | There is a relocation and settlement page; a contact point (department, telephone, opening hours); support schemes state amounts and conditions |
| Housing | 9 / 15 | There is an akiya bank; listings carry photographs, price, year built and floor area; completed deals are organised |
| The money side of living here | 8 / 15 | Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table; child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope; there are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax |
| Disaster information | 12.7 / 20 | Hazard maps are published by district; flood, landslide and earthquake are all covered; they are machine-readable (a map system or text PDF); and 1 more |
| Industry and local produce | 3 / 10 | Hometown tax results are published year by year; there are support schemes for businesses and industry |
| Transport | 7 / 10 | There is a community bus timetable, with the revision date shown |
| Can an AI read it? | 6 / 10 | Every page shows an update date / there is a sitemap.xml / statistics are published as Excel or CSV |
See all 30 items and the pages used to judge them
3 / 3 There is a relocation and settlement pageRelocation and settlement Go and see → 0 / 3 There is a dedicated relocation site
Only pages within the official site 3 / 3 A contact point (department, telephone, opening hours)
3 of department, telephone and opening hours were stated Go and see → 5 / 5 Support schemes state amounts and conditions
Both amounts and conditions Go and see → 0 / 3 There is trial housing or a trial-stay scheme
Not found 0 / 3 Vacancies in trial housing are published
Not found 4 / 4 There is an akiya bank
There is a municipal akiya bank 1 / 4 Listings carry photographs, price, year built and floor area
0 of 12 (0%) had all 4 items 4 / 4 Completed deals are organised
No completed deals appear in the list 0 / 3 The conditions of use are stated
Not found 1 / 5 Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table
There is a water and sewerage page Go and see → 5 / 5 Child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope
The scope of free and subsidised care is stated down to the age Go and see → 2 / 3 There are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax
Either the rate or the amount is stated Go and see → 0 / 2 Tie-ups with banks for mortgages and the like
Not found 5 / 5 Hazard maps are published by district
45 documents by district Go and see → 1.7 / 5 Flood, landslide and earthquake are all covered
Flooding Go and see → 0 / 3 The year the assumptions were last reviewed is stated
Not found Go and see → 3 / 4 Is it machine-readable (a map system or a text PDF)?
A text PDF Go and see → 3 / 3 Disasters are announced through more than one channel
Disaster email / disaster app / social media / municipal loudspeakers / TV and radio Go and see → 0 / 5 A list of local speciality products is on the official site
Not found 1 / 3 Hometown tax results are published year by year
11 financial years covered Go and see → 2 / 2 There are support schemes for businesses and industry
Commerce and industry Go and see → 4 / 4 There is a community bus timetable
Go and see → 0 / 3 Fares are stated
Not found Go and see → 3 / 3 The date of the last revision is given
Water charges revised from 1 April Reiwa 4 Go and see → 3 / 3 Every page carries an updated date
20 of the 20 pages read Go and see → 2 / 2 There is a sitemap.xml
Go and see → 0 / 2 Site search runs on the server side
We could not find a search form Go and see → 1 / 2 Statistics are published as Excel or CSV
There is a statistics page Go and see → 0 / 1 Open data is published
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