Cosmos on the right bank of the Onga River in Mizumaki Town.jpg
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40382 ／ みずまきまち

Fukuoka Prefecture 遠賀郡

Mizumaki Town

The town flower blooms by a river path.

Onga Riverbank Cosmos Garden

Photo by 水だらけのプール (CC0)

01 ／ Kurumagaeshi Rock Cutting (車返の切貫)

On the wall cut through the rock,the characters “Sanjaku Gosun” (三尺五寸) have been found.

A difficult section of the Hori River (堀川), a canal dug in the Edo period, it spans Yoshida-higashi in Mizumaki and Daizen in Yahatanishi Ward, Kitakyushu. From the first to the ninth year of Horeki, a rock face up to 14 m high was cut through over a total length of about 456 m. Characters giving measurements, such as “Sanjaku Gosun” (三尺五寸), have been found on the wall.

  • Prefectural historic site (designated March 29, 2024)
  • Total length about 456 m, width about 6 m, height up to 14 m
  • Dug from the first to the ninth year of Horeki

02 ／ Tateyashiki Site (立屋敷遺跡)

Pottery found on the bed of the Onga Riverbecame the name for early Yayoi pottery.

The signboard along the Onga River embankment is for the Tateyashiki Site, now submerged within the river. A Yayoi-period settlement discovered in 1931 (Showa 6), it is where decorated Yayoi ware was first found in Kyushu; it came to be called “Onga River-style pottery” (遠賀川式土器) and was placed in the early Yayoi period.

  • Discovered in 1931 (Showa 6) (town)
  • Yayoi-period settlement site, early Yayoi
  • Town-designated tangible cultural property, Onga River-style jar (designated November 1, 1995)

03 ／ Origin of the Town's Name (町名の由来)

The town's name is recorded on a shrine'sridgepole tablet as meaning “water that curls.”

八剱神社本殿.jpg
Photo by C2revenge (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The munafuda (棟札, ridgepole tablet) of Ukemochi Shrine (保食神社), enshrined within Yatsurugi Shrine (八劔神社) in Tateyashiki, records: “Mizumaki is a place name, meaning water that curls.” At the start of the village system in 1889 (Meiji 22), the headman's office on Mizumaki-yama (水巻山) became the village office, and the village took the name of where it stood. The town emblem is a figure of Onga River water whirling in a triple comma.

  • “Meaning water that curls” is recorded on the munafuda of Ukemochi Shrine
  • Mizumaki Village in 1889 (Meiji 22), town status in 1940 (Showa 15)
  • The emblem shows Onga River water whirling in a triple comma

Living here

Kitakyushu to the east, the Onga River to the west: a narrow town running north to south.

  • about 30,000 people
  • Rural district town

In northern Fukuoka, the town borders the designated city of Kitakyushu to the east and faces the Onga River to the west. Mizumaki Station on the JR Kagoshima Main Line is about 25 minutes to Kokura Station and about 50 minutes to Hakata Station by semi-rapid train. Higashi-Mizumaki Station on the Chikuho Main Line is about 3 minutes to Orio Station.

People living here
28,114people
19952020

−3% since 2015

31,289 → 28,114

Area
11.01km²

9.95km² of it habitable

2024

Households
12,315households

2.3 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
38,233yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
3 hospitals ／ 23 clinics

9.2 per 10,000 people

2023

Area11.01km²Habitable land9.95km² ／ 90%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—5 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
—
Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Mizumaki Town in Japan33.855°N 130.695°E
TokyoOsakaMizumaki Town
Territory of Mizumaki Town
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.7km

北九州市, 遠賀町, 中間市, 芦屋町

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

Mizumaki Town isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The Onga Riverbank Cosmos Garden (遠賀川河川敷コスモス園) is where cosmos, the town flower, blooms on both sides of a cycling course of about 6 km on the Mizumaki side of the Onga River. It is usually at its best from mid-October to early November, and admission and parking are free.
  2. 02The town has the prefectural natural monument Great Ginkgo of Yatsurugi Shrine (八劔神社の大イチョウ) and the town-designated Onga River-style jar and Statue of a Coal Mine Worker (炭鉱就労者の像); the town records that coal was discovered at the site of the Hori River works. A supplementary reader, Onga Hori River History (遠賀堀川の歴史), by the Kyushu Regional Development Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and others, records that in the Edo period Kuratomi Kichiemon (藏富吉右ヱ門) of Tateyashiki Village devised a way to knock pests off rice in a field where whale oil had been poured. The town also has a municipal library and history museum.
  3. 03In northern Fukuoka, it borders the designated city of Kitakyushu to the east and faces the Onga River to the west, a narrow town running north to south. Its specialty is “Mizumaki no Dekaninniku” (水巻のでかにんにく), jumbo garlic about five times the size of ordinary garlic.

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mizumaki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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