Iizuka City

Cut stones ring the hill for about 2 km

Kakenouma Kōgoishi

Photo by 川崎宏一 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ The Water Gate of Kakenouma Kōgoishi (鹿毛馬神籠石)

Under the rampart closing the valley mouth,two drainage culverts were built.

The valley mouth was closed with an earthen rampart about 60 m long and 9 m wide, and drainage culverts (underground channels) were built beneath it. Both culverts measure about 18 m in total length. Posts were found inside the rampart at intervals of about 3 m; they may also have stood above it as a fence.

2 culverts (about 18 m each)
Rampart about 60 m long, 9 m wide
Posts inside the rampart at about 3 m intervals

02 ／ Former Garden of Ito Den'emon (旧伊藤傳右エ門氏庭園)

In the garden pond seen from the main room,two stone fountains stand.

The garden of the main residence built by the coal-mine operator Ito Den'emon (伊藤傳右エ門) is a national Place of Scenic Beauty. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records that it was completed around his marriage to Yanagiwara Akiko (柳原燁子, Byakuren). It has a large artificial hill and a pond with stone fountains of distinctive design, and can be viewed from the main room and strolled around.

National Place of Scenic Beauty (Sept. 21, 2011)
2 stone fountains and a stone arched bridge
Main house: National Important Cultural Property (Dec. 23, 2020)

03 ／ Stone Reaping Knives of the Tateiwa Site (立岩遺跡)

From stone at a mountain foot about 5 kmnorthwest of the site, rice-harvest tools were made.

Stone reaping-knife (sekihōchō, 石庖丁) production at the Tateiwa Site began at the end of the early Yayoi period and peaked in the latter half of the middle Yayoi period. The stone came from the foot of Mt. Kasagiyama (笠置山), about 5 km northwest of the site, and is a diabase tuff of a pale azuki-bean red. The city's pamphlet records that knives of the "Tateiwa brand" spread across northern Kyushu, centered on the Fukuoka, Saga and Asakura areas.

Production began at the end of the early Yayoi
Stone source about 5 km to the northwest
Peak in the latter half of the middle Yayoi

Living here

In the middle of Fukuoka Prefecture, ringed by mountains and rivers.

about 130,000 people

Iizuka lies near the middle of Fukuoka Prefecture, with the Onga River plain to the north and south, Mt. Sekinoyama (関の山) to the east and the Sangun Mountains to the west. The city describes it as within commuting distance of both Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, the two designated cities. It is also a place that the ancient Dazaifu official road and the Edo-period Nagasaki Road passed through.

People living here: 126,364people
Area: 213.96km²
Households: 55,762households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,833yen
Healthcare: 12 hospitals ／ 131 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-26 に新設合併（筑穂町・穂波町・庄内町・頴田町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —26 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 13 municipalities.

Iizuka City in Japan33.647°N 130.691°E

Territory of Iizuka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.5km

桂川町, 嘉麻市, 宮若市, 篠栗町, 小竹町, 田川市, 筑紫野市, 筑前町, 福智町, 宇美町, 糸田町, 直方市, 須恵町

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

Iizuka City isthis kind of town.

01Kakenouma Kōgoishi is a site where rows of stones shaped like cut stone were laid around the outside of a horseshoe-shaped hill; it is thought to have been built around the 7th century. The stones run about 2 km, and it is a national Historic Site.
02The Former Garden of Ito Den'emon is a national Place of Scenic Beauty, and the main house and gatehouse of the Former Ito Residence are National Important Cultural Properties. The finds from the Hotta jar-burial group at the Tateiwa Site are National Important Cultural Properties, kept at the Iizuka City Museum of History.
03Kaho Theater is a two-story wooden playhouse that opened in 1931 (Showa 6), a nationally registered tangible cultural property. The city also has Uchino-juku, a post town on the Nagasaki Road, and the Chikuho Coalfield Sites (Shakano Coal Mine ruins), a national Historic Site.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iizuka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗