Koge Town

Leaves and birds cut in a tomb passage.

Anagahayama Kofun

Photo by MChew (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Matsuoyama Mountain Worship Materials

Mountain-entry pestles, divination rods,and medicine-bag woodblocks remain.

Mount Matsuo (471 m above sea level) is counted as one of the Buzen Six Peaks (豊前六峰), and Ioji Temple (医王寺) is said to have been founded there in 728 (Jinki 5). The prefecturally designated materials include the Hio and Suio masks (火王面・水王面) and a battle-axe thought to have been used in the Matsue (松会) rites, a pestle for entering the peaks, divination counting rods, and woodblocks for medicine bags; the town owns them.

Elevation 471 m (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property (16 items added, February 18, 1971)
At its peak, 13 branch temples and 36 lodgings (Muromachi period; Agency for Cultural Affairs)

02 ／ Tobaru Mountain Fortress Site

The reuse of an ancient fortress's cut stonesis confirmed in a castle wall 5 km away.

On an isolated hill, rows of cut granite with an L-shaped notch at the top, along with earthen ramparts, were confirmed in a 1998 survey. The line of stones is estimated at about 1.7 km, and the fortress is thought to date to the late 7th century. It has been confirmed that these cut stones were reused in the walls of Nakatsu Castle, 5 km away.

National historic site (designated March 2, 2005)
Line of stones estimated at about 1.7 km (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Relative height about 70 m; about 0.8 km north-south by 0.6 km east-west

03 ／ Tomoeda Tile Kiln Site

A kiln dug tunnel-like into a rock slopesupplied tiles to Tarumi-haiji (垂水廃寺).

This climbing kiln uses a hillside: the natural rock layer was hollowed out like a tunnel, the floor was made into a flight of a dozen or so steps, and a smoke vent was set at the back. The designation text says many Nara-period tile fragments remain nearby. The tiles fired here were supplied to Tarumi-haiji.

National historic site (designated October 12, 1922)
Floor of a dozen or so steps (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Nara-period climbing kiln (town)

Living here

At Fukuoka's eastern edge, daily life shares a sphere with Nakatsu.

about 7,000 people
Rural district town

The town borders Nakatsu across the Yamakuni River to the east, Buzen to the west and Yoshitomi to the north. There is no railway station in the town; a Chikujo-Tobu shared taxi links JR Nakatsu Station with Koge Town Office, and in the town's timetable every trip takes 11 minutes. The town was formed in 2005 by the merger of Shin-Yoshitomi Village and Ohira Village.

People living here: 7,251people
Area: 62.44km²
Households: 2,797households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 3 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Koge Town in Japan33.578°N 131.164°E

Territory of Koge Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.7km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 豊前市, 吉富町
Oita Prefecture: 中津市

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

Koge Town isthis kind of town.

01Anagahayama Kofun, a nationally designated historic site in Shimo-Tobaru, is a round tomb whose stone chamber opens to the south. On the west wall of the passage leading to the chamber, leaves, birds and weapons are cut in lines.
02The town has three other nationally designated historic sites. The Dainose government office site is the remains of what is thought to be the administrative center of an ancient district office in Buzen Province, from the Nara period to the early Heian period, and it adjoins the Michi-no-Eki Shin-Yoshitomi roadside station. At the Otabi-sho (御旅所) of Sansha Shrine on Mount Matsuo, the prefecturally designated Otaue rice-planting festival has been held every April. Three kagura groups (Tomoeda, Tobaru and Naritsune) are also active.
03A town at the eastern edge of Fukuoka Prefecture, bordering Nakatsu in Oita Prefecture across the Yamakuni River. Shin-Yoshitomi Village and Ohira Village merged in 2005.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Koge Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗