Kawasaki Town

An old rail line became Sesshū Road.

Sesshū Road, ex-Kamiyamada Line

Photo by Akatsuki-3rd (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Kōrenji's Rinzō and Sutra House, and Its Bodhi Tree

The octagonal rinzō, roughly 3 m high,holds sutras in its drawers.

The rinzō and sutra house (輪蔵附経蔵) of Kōrenji Temple (光蓮寺) is a sutra repository built in the Anei era (late 1770s) by the eighth head priest (智厳). It holds a woodblock-printed set of the complete Buddhist scriptures said to have been published in Ming-dynasty China. The bodhi tree in the grounds is said to have been planted from seeds the priest brought back with the scriptures.

Prefecturally designated Tangible Folk Cultural Property (Jan. 16, 1963)
Complete scriptures: 3,004 volumes
Bodhi tree: prefectural Natural Monument (May 7, 1964)

02 ／ Kawasaki Staff Performance (杖楽)

With staff, sword and sickle,a martial-style rite is offered at the shrine.

The town says the staff performance of the Hachiman shrine (正八幡神社) is given at the Shinkō Festival (神幸祭) each May. The town magazine of June 2013 says that on May 3 and 4, men in white headbands and sashes offer it using a staff, a sword and a sickle. Its origin is traditionally attributed to an offering by Chinzei Hachirō Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝) in the Kamakura period.

Prefecturally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
May 3 and 4 (town magazine, June 2013)
Uses a staff, a sword and a sickle

03 ／ Akasaka Koume

The folk singer who spread Tankō Bushi andKuroda Bushi nationwide was born in this town.

Akasaka Koume (1906–1992) was a folk singer from Kawasaki. The town says she spread Tankō Bushi (炭坑節), Kuroda Bushi (黒田節), Otemoyan (おてもやん) and other songs nationwide and became a leading figure of the postwar folk-song boom. The town's tourist map says she appeared in the first Kōhaku Uta Gassen. She is the model for the town's character Koume-chan (小梅ちゃん).

1906–1992
Appeared on NHK's Kōhaku Uta Gassen 4 times (Town Overview 2020)
Model for the town character Koume-chan

Living here

Around town runs the town's own Fureai Bus.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The JR stations in town are Buzen-Kawasaki and Ikejiri, on the Hitahikosan Line. Nishitetsu Bus's Soeda Line was discontinued at the end of September 2025, and the town reorganized the routes and timetable of its own Fureai Bus (ふれあいバス) in October 2025 as its replacement. The fare is 100 yen per adult ride, and there is no service on Sundays or over the New Year period.

People living here: 15,176people
Area: 36.14km²
Households: 6,921households
Rent (average for rentals): 20,048yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 4 municipalities.

Kawasaki Town in Japan33.600°N 130.815°E

Territory of Kawasaki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.7km

田川市, 添田町, 嘉麻市, 大任町

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

Kawasaki Town isthis kind of town.

01Sesshū Road is a road that the town's tourist map describes as the former Japanese National Railways Kamiyamada Line reborn as a cycling road; the map shows about 2 km. The Kawasaki Town Tourist Station (川崎町観光ステーション) rents out bicycles for 500 yen a day.
02The Fujie-shi Gyorakuen (藤江氏魚楽園) is a garden designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty, said to have been laid out by the Muromachi-period master Sesshū. The Fukuoka prefectural tourism site states that it has been closed since June 21, 2021, for the time being, with no reopening date.
03Toyanbaru Kofun No. 1 (戸山原古墳1号墳) is a round tomb mound of the late 6th to early 7th century, a town-designated Historic Site. At Awashima Shrine (淡島神社), a rice-cake-throwing festival is held every May 3. At the foot of the mountain (戸谷ヶ岳) is an owner-system apple orchard.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kawasaki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗