Takahama Town

Once 1.5M a summer; now a Blue Flag.

Wakasa Wada Beach

Photo by Bryanthelion1985 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Batō Kannon

Once in 24 years, once in 33:two hidden horse-headed Kannon are shown.

At the foot of Mt Aoba, Magoji (馬居寺) and Nakayamadera (中山寺) both enshrine as their main image a Batō Kannon, the Kannon who wears a horse's head on top of his own. The two statues, one from the late Heian period and one from the Kamakura period, are both Important Cultural Properties. Batō Kannon is seldom worshipped on his own, but the prefecture notes that many remain around Mt Aoba. Both are hidden images: Magoji shows its statue once every 24 years, Nakayamadera once every 33.

Once every 24 years
Once every 33 years
Two Important Cultural Properties

02 ／ Ginkgo

These two ginkgo treessometimes bear nuts on their leaves.

The two ginkgo trees at Sugimori Shrine (杉森神社) in Rokurodani are both female and about 32 m tall. They are ohatsuki ginkgo (オハツキイチョウ), trees whose nuts can form on the edges of the leaves, which the prefecture describes as well known as evidence that flowers evolved from leaves. They were designated a Natural Monument in 1935.

Both female trees
About 32 m tall
Natural Monument, 1935

03 ／ Wakasa fugu

Tiger puffer caught in set netswere raised in a wire-mesh pen.

Farming of Wakasa fugu (若狭ふぐ) is said to have begun in 1954, when fishermen in Takahama kept tiger puffer that had swum into their set nets in early spring, raising them in a pen made by closing off part of the sea with wire mesh. In 1983 a trial of raising young fish to full size began in the town's Uchiura Bay, and puffer farming spread across the whole of Wakasa Bay.

1954
Uchiura Bay, 1983

Living here

Four stations by the sea; the town hall 3 min on foot.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The JR Obama Line runs along the coast, with four stations in the town: Aonogō, Mitsumatsu, Wakasa-Takahama and Wakasa-Wada. The town hall is a 3-minute walk from Wakasa-Takahama Station. Eight bathing beaches line 8 km of sand, and in the years of the snake and the boar the Takahama Shichinen Matsuri (高浜七年祭) of Sakichi Shrine (佐伎治神社) runs for seven days. On Mt Aoba grows the ōkinreika (オオキンレイカ), a flower recorded nowhere but this mountain.

People living here: 10,326people
Area: 72.4km²
Households: 4,500households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 8 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 3 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Takahama Town in Japan35.488°N 135.546°E

Territory of Takahama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.2km

Fukui Prefecture: おおい町
Kyoto Prefecture: 舞鶴市, 綾部市

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

Takahama Town isthis kind of town.

01A beach town whose sea bathing began when schools from the Kyoto–Osaka–Kobe area started coming in 1913; Wakasa Wada Beach has held the international Blue Flag certification every year since 2016
02At the foot of Mt Aoba, known as Wakasa Fuji, two temples keep hidden Batō Kannon statues that are Important Cultural Properties
03It has ohatsuki ginkgo trees that bear nuts on their leaves, and Wakasa fugu farming began in the net pens of the town's fishermen

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takahama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗