Asakura City

Asakura City isthis kind of town.

1. 01The Asakura water-lifting wheels (朝倉の揚水車群) draw water up from the Horikawa irrigation channel (堀川用水) to higher paddies; seven wheels, the triple wheel at Hishino (菱野) and the double wheels at Mishima (三島) and Hisashige (久重), still water farmland today. An opening ceremony is held each year on June 17 at Mizu Shrine (水神社) at Yamada Weir, and once the water arrives the wheels start turning and run until late September. Together with part of the Horikawa channel they are a national historic site, and local craftsmen rebuild the wheels every five years.
2. 02The nationally designated Hiratsuka-Kawazoe Site (平塚川添遺跡) is a settlement of the Yayoi period surrounded by multiple moats, opened as a site park in 2001. Kakurega-no-mori (隠家森), a national natural monument, is a giant camphor tree said to get its name from a legend that people unable to pass the Asakura barrier hid there. The Meotoishi Revetment (女男石護岸施設), a prefectural historic site, is flood-control works from the early Akizuki domain, and the Suga Shrine community granary, a prefectural folk cultural property, is a grain store set up in 1822 (Bunsei 5) to prepare the former Amagi townspeople for famine.
3. 03In the middle of Fukuoka Prefecture, the city was formed by the merger of Amagi, Haki and Asakura in 2006. Almost the whole of the former Akizuki castle town is a national Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and there is also Harazuru Onsen, which the city introduces as having the largest spring output in the prefecture.