Chikushino City

A 1930 signboard already called it rare.

Yamae-shuku West Kamaeguchi

01 ／ Hokonoki

A late-Edo village headman's drawings of a jar-coffin tombshow a grave that no longer remains on site.

Hokonoki (鉾之記) is a document written in 1857 (Ansei 4) by Kashima Kuheiji, headman of Futsukaichi Village, with coloured drawings of a Yayoi-period jar-coffin tomb and a bronze sword and mirror. The tomb does not remain on site. In 2022 local high school students found the original, and in March 2026 the city designated it a cultural property.

Record of 1857 (Ansei 4)
Original found in 2022
City tangible cultural property, March 2026

02 ／ Former Kyushu Railway Kiyama Triple Bridge

Under the brick triple arch, a river flows throughthe centre and roads run on both sides.

The Former Kyushu Railway Kiyama Triple Bridge (旧九州鉄道城山三連橋梁) is a brick triple-arch bridge 24.5 m long and 4.7 m wide, built for Kyushu's first railway line, which opened in 1889 (Meiji 22). A new line in 1920 (Taisho 9) closed the old section, and the bridge is now used as a city road bridge.

24.5 m long, 4.7 m wide
Built when the line opened in 1889 (Meiji 22)
Nationally registered tangible cultural property (1997)

03 ／ Buzoji Engi

A five-scroll picture story of the temple's originsincludes a tale of a daughter taken to a hot spring.

武蔵寺縁起.jpg — Photo by Edo-period artist (Public domain)

The Buzoji Engi (武蔵寺縁起), handed down at Buzoji (武蔵寺) temple, is painted in colour on paper in five hanging scrolls. The second tells how Toramaro carved a Yakushi Nyorai statue after a dream, which began the temple; the third tells of his daughter Ruriko taken to a hot spring. Thought to date from the mid-Edo period, it is a Fukuoka Prefecture Tangible Cultural Property.

Five hanging scrolls
Thought to date from the mid-Edo period (first half of the 18th century)
Fukuoka Prefecture Tangible Cultural Property

Living here

15.6 km east to west, 14.1 km north to south.The city's shape resembles a butterfly with spread wings.

about 100,000 people

The city's own site says its shape resembles a butterfly with spread wings. A watershed lies on the central plain: the Mikasa (御笠川) and Naka (那珂川) river systems flow north to Hakata Bay, and the Homan (宝満川) river system flows south to the Ariake Sea.

People living here: 103,311people
Area: 87.73km²
Households: 41,861households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,738yen
Healthcare: 9 hospitals ／ 76 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —12 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 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Chikushino City in Japan33.487°N 130.526°E

Territory of Chikushino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.1km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 太宰府市, 筑前町, 飯塚市, 小郡市, 那珂川市, 大野城市, 宇美町
Saga Prefecture: 基山町, 鳥栖市

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

Chikushino City isthis kind of town.

01Yamae-shuku West Kamaeguchi (山家宿西構口) is a prefecturally designated historic site: a kamaeguchi (構口) was the gate wall at a post town's entrance, and here it survives on both sides of the road, earthen walls roofed with tiles atop stone walls. Of the 27 post towns in Chikuzen, traces of a kamaeguchi remain at three: Aoyagi (青柳), Koyanose (木屋瀬) and Yamae (山家).
02A signboard that Fukuoka Prefecture put up in front of the West Kamaeguchi in 1930 (Showa 5) says the relic of the gate is very rare, and the city says it was already unusual even then. In Haruda (原田), Goroyama Tumulus (五郎山古墳) is a national historic site with a wall painting of people, animals, boats and houses.
03In Okada (岡田), an ancient official road about 9 m wide was found over about 360 m, and in 2024 it became a city historic site. The gruel divination at Chikushi Shrine (筑紫神社) is a city intangible folk cultural property, and Ashiki-yama Castle Site (阿志岐山城跡), a national historic site, is on private land and cannot be visited.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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