Sugisawa Weir

The Umeda River, which uses the forest of Miho citizens as the headwater, has been an important water resource in areas where rice cultivation has been active since the Edo period.
In order to draw water to the paddy fields, it was necessary to block the river, and some "weirs" were created. "Sugisawa Weir" is one of them, and you can imagine that it was wooden in the Edo period, but valuable concrete was completed in the early Showa era, contributing to rice cultivation in the Sugisawa area.
Since the 1965 era, houses began to gradually build near Tando, and the role of weirs was lost due to the disappearance of paddy fields, but even today, the flow from Tando on the west side is still Otakibashi. It is poured into the weir and retains its old-fashioned appearance.
Sugisawa Weir was registered in Historic buildings in Yokohama in 1999 as the civil engineering industry remain, a valuable historical and cultural asset for the landscape.

▲Sugisawa Weir

Near 1427-3, Mihocho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi