Matsuno Town

Valleys for paddies, ridges for homes.

Okuuchi Terraces, Farm Landscape

Photo by Indiana jo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Meguro Yamagata Materials (目黒山形関係資料)

To settle a mountain-boundary dispute,a model of the land was made.

Made in 1665 (Kanbun 5) during the shogunate's ruling on a mountain-boundary dispute between Meguro Village of Yoshida Domain and a village of Uwajima Domain, this wooden model splits into six parts and is scaled at about 1:5,900. With its base map and documents it is a national Important Cultural Property. Visits to the Meguro Furusato-kan need a reservation.

National Important Cultural Property (designated June 8, 2007)
Scale about 1:5,900; splits into six parts
Agency for Cultural Affairs: no other case of a model and base map surviving together

02 ／ Kagomori Castle Ruins (河後森城跡)

Round holes cut into the bedrock,thought to be post holes, are found in numbers.

A hilltop castle site on the Iyo-Tosa border, on an isolated ridge above the Hiromi River. Excavation, begun in fiscal 1991, has found many round holes cut into the bedrock of the enclosures, thought to be post holes for buildings, gates and earthen walls. A tradition says its keep was moved to Uwajima Castle.

National Historic Site (designated September 11, 1997)
Main enclosure: 171m above sea level, 88m above the foot (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Excavation since fiscal 1991

03 ／ Senjojiki at Nametoko Gorge (滑床渓谷)

A bed of single slabs of rock spreads out,part of how Nametoko got its name.

A mountain stream flowing down from the Onigajo range (鬼ヶ城山系) in the upper Shimanto River basin. Smooth slabs of bedrock cover the whole streambed, and their resemblance to a great hall gave Senjojiki (千畳敷) its name. Literati once held haiku gatherings and banquets here, it is said. The Nametoko Recreation Forest around it spans Uwajima, Kihoku and Matsuno.

Yukiwa Falls (雪輪の滝): one of Japan's 100 Best Waterfalls (Forestry Agency)
Nametoko Water Source Forest: one of the Hundred Water Source Forests
Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park

Living here

Forest spreads through the mountainsalong the Kochi border.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

Matsuno lies in southwest Ehime, a mountain town on the Kochi border, and 84% of its land is forest. In Kitauwa District, it runs a memorial hall for the haiku poet Shiba Fukio in his converted birthplace, one minute on foot from Matsumaru Station on the Yodo Line.

People living here: 3,674people
Area: 98.45km²
Households: 1,603households
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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Matsuno Town in Japan33.227°N 132.711°E

Territory of Matsuno Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.8km

Ehime Prefecture: 鬼北町, 宇和島市
Kochi Prefecture: 四万十市, 四万十町

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

Matsuno Town isthis kind of town.

01The Okuuchi terraces and farm landscape is the landscape of four hamlets, including terraces formed from the mid-Edo period on, and is a national Important Cultural Landscape. Old documents confirm that valleys were used as paddies, ridges as house plots and the land around them as fields.
02The Meguro Yamagata materials, a wooden relief model made in 1665 during a ruling on a mountain-boundary dispute, with related materials, are a national Important Cultural Property. Kagomori Castle Ruins, a mountain castle site on the Iyo-Tosa border, is a national Historic Site.
03Senjojiki in Nametoko Gorge is a place where smooth slabs of bedrock spread across the streambed. The town has a memorial hall in the converted birthplace of Shiba Fukio and a Haiku Path of 17 poem monuments, and in Nobeno the remains of a canal said to have been planned in the Kamakura period.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Matsuno Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗