Miyama City

Over 900 camphors grow atop a levee.

Shinfunagoya Camphor Forest

01 ／ Kowakamai

Oe, in Setaka, keeps42 scripts of the dance.

A medieval performing art that flourished in the Muromachi period, its lineage is passed down in Oe. It is said that in the 10th year of Tensho (1582), someone of a Kyoto lineage came down to Chikugo and taught it. On January 20, on the stage of the Tenman shrine, the taifu (lead), shite and waki share the chanting among the three of them, with a small hand drum accompanying.

National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated May 4, 1976)
Keeps 42 script manuscripts (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Performed on January 20 on the Tenman shrine stage

02 ／ Zoyama Kogoishi

From the lookout of the park on the mountain ringed by stone rows,the Chikugo Plain lies in full view.

Considered an ancient mountain fortress built around the mid-7th century. Of its estimated 2.9 km total length, a horseshoe of stone rows runs about 1.5 km. The valleys on the west slope originally held four water gates, and those of Kayumochi-dani and Nagatani remain as they were. From the park's lookout, the Chikugo Plain and the Ariake Sea can be seen in one sweep.

National historic site (designated November 14, 1953)
Estimated 2.9 km long; stone rows run about 1.5 km in a horseshoe (city)
Four water gates originally (city)

03 ／ Senko hanabi

Takei's fireworks-making is said to have begunwith Tachibana Muneshige's offering.

Fireworks-making in Takei is said to have begun in 1592, when Tachibana Muneshige, back from the Korean campaign, offered fireworks at Takei Hachimangu shrine. Senko hanabi (sparklers) come in two kinds, the straw-made subete botan and the paper-made nagate botan; the city records that only the preservation society makes subete botan in Japan. It was designated a prefectural folk technique in March 2026.

Fukuoka Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property (folk technique; designated March 27, 2026)
Said to have begun with an offering of fireworks in 1592 (city)
The name subete botan is confirmed in texts from the early Edo period (city)

Living here

The city tree is the camphor, chosen with residents' views in mind.

about 40,000 people

The city was born on January 29, 2007 (Heisei 19), when Setaka, Yamakawa and Takata merged. Taking public comments into account, it chose the cherry blossom as its flower and the camphor (kusu) as its tree (established January 13, 2010). Its specialty products include mandarin oranges, strawberries, eggplants, celery, Ariake nori and sake.

People living here: 35,861people
Area: 105.21km²
Households: 13,060households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,792yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 31 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Miyama City in Japan33.152°N 130.475°E

Territory of Miyama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.5km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 大牟田市, 柳川市, 八女市, 筑後市
Kumamoto Prefecture: 和水町, 南関町

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

Miyama City isthis kind of town.

01The Camphor Forest of Shinfunagoya (新舟小屋のクスノキ林) is a grove of camphor trees on the levee along the left bank of the Yabe River, a national natural monument. They were planted on a levee built in the Tachibana domain era (around 1695), and those over 1 m in trunk diameter number more than 150.
02The nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property Kowakamai is, in the city's words, a dance handed down only in Miyama, unique in Japan. The Ishigamiyama Tumulus, a national historic site, holds an armored stone figure that is a national Important Cultural Property; there are also the Kiyomizudera main hall garden (a national place of scenic beauty), its prefecturally designated three-storied pagoda, the prefectural intangible folk cultural properties Donkyankyan and Shinkai Noh, and the prefectural tangible folk cultural property of the giant figures and lanterns of Kamijo Yasaka Shrine.
03A city in southern Fukuoka Prefecture facing the Ariake Sea, born on January 29, 2007 from the merger of Setaka, Yamakawa and Takata.

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