There is it in the hilly areas of the Abukuma Mountains west slope and is located in the Date-gun southern part, and, in the east, in Iitatemura, Soma-gun / Namiemachi, Futaba-gun / the south, in Nihonmatsu-shi, the west, Iinomachi, the north exist as Date-shi and and I contact southeast about 22km of Fukushima-shi, a main district foothold of the prefecture capital outskirts.
Graceful flower Tsukayama (918m) / 高太石山 (836m) rises, and, like the mountain of north Abukuma ranging in the Soma county line, the slope running in the west from the ridge can open a cultivated area. A catchment area is small, and the development of the vast river is not watched for the hill nature.
As for the tilled soil, there are a lot of slant place cool altitudes types where a lot of, and is more than meters above the sea level 500m to close the valley except that I am gathered up a little in the basin of the Hirose / 口太 / goddess River. As for the ground, the class of the third retainers is examined in paleozoic strata, a part generally, and, as for the bedrock, granodiorite coexists with Old granodiorite partially for new period, and earth is soil / sandy loam.
The main country path (Haramachi - Kawamata Line) required links the Pacific coast to the prefecture capital National highway No. 114 (Fukushima - Namie), and National highway No. 349 (Mito - Shibata) crosses the north and south of the town, and others prefectural road / a town road forms a node of the traffic together. .。
