Kasuga City

A mound named for the equinox sunrise.

Hihaizuka, the sun-worship mound

Photo by STA3816 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kasuga's Muko-oshi, at the Sacred Pond

The night before Coming of Age Day, newlyweds arecelebrated and barrels fought over in the pond.

Kasuga's Muko-oshi (春日の婿押し) at Kasuga Shrine, also called the Wakamizu Festival, celebrates couples married in the previous year, led by the Sanki Kumiai, a group of shrine parishioners aged 45 or under. The climax, the barrel scramble (樽せり), takes place in the pond (神池) in front of the shrine; whoever gets a piece of a broken barrel offers it at the household altar.

National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated Heisei 7)
Night before Coming of Age Day
Sanki Kumiai of parishioners aged 45 or under

02 ／ Sukuokamoto Site: the King's Tomb Capstone

On what is regarded as the Na kingdom's royal tomb,a four-tonne stone once lay.

The Sukuokamoto Site (須玖岡本遺跡) is a National Historic Site in an area regarded as the centre of the Na kingdom (奴国). The capstone of the jar-coffin tomb (the royal tomb) found in 1899 (Meiji 32) is 3.3 m long, 1.8 m wide and weighs 4 tonnes; it was moved to its present spot in Heisei 10.

3.3 m long, 1.8 m wide, 4 tonnes
Found in 1899 (Meiji 32)
National Historic Site (designated Showa 61)

03 ／ Shirozu Pond: the Water-Sharing Agreement

After the pond was raised in 1664, three villagesagreed how to share the extra water.

Shirozu Pond (白水池) is the city's symbol and is now Shirozu-oike Park (白水大池公園). In 1664 (Kanbun 4), after Takesue Shinbei, the village head of Suku, led the raising of the pond, three villages agreed how to share the extra water under the Fukuoka domain's construction magistrate.

Agreement of 1664 (Kanbun 4)
Suku, Kami-Shirozu and Shimo-Shirozu villages
Copy of the agreement is a city-designated tangible cultural property (Reiwa 4)

Living here

The smallest city in Fukuoka Prefecture by area.

about 110,000 people

Its area is 14.15 km², a rounded diamond 4 km east to west and 5.34 km north to south. It borders Fukuoka City on the south and is a residential city within 10 km of central Fukuoka. The city writes that its population density of 7,846 people/km² (2020 census) is the highest among municipalities in Kyushu and Okinawa.

People living here: 111,023people
Area: 14.15km²
Households: 46,442households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,601yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 86 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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

Surrounded by 3 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Kasuga City in Japan33.533°N 130.470°E

Territory of Kasuga City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.6km

大野城市, 福岡市, 那珂川市

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

Kasuga City isthis kind of town.

01Hihaizuka Tumulus (日拝塚古墳) is a keyhole-shaped tomb built in the 6th century and a National Historic Site. The city explains that its mound axis runs nearly east-west and that at the equinox the sun rising from Mount Onechi (大根地山), about 16 km to the east, can be worshipped, so it came to be called Hihaizuka.
02The Sakamoto district of the Sukuokamoto Site yielded many bronze casting moulds and is also called the Na kingdom's state-run workshop. The 25 medium-width bronze dagger-axes found at Ogura Shin-ike pond in 1967 are an Important Cultural Property.
03At Sumiyoshi Shrine in Ogura, a rite in which children strike the previous year's new brides on the bottom with a stick (嫁ごの尻たたき), and a festival that offers half-cooked food and ox-tongue rice cakes (牛の舌餅), are handed down; both appear in the city's "Kasuga Traditional Events".

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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