Nakagawa City

A Shoki canal drops about 20 cm/100 m.

Sakutano Unade, Ichi-no-ide

Photo by Muyo (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Uson-dani Valley

The village said to have kept up "We know nothing"has the place name Uso, nicknamed Uson-dani.

安徳宮.jpg — Photo by C2revenge (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In Antoku district, the place name of the settlement where the elders live is Uso (ウソ), nicknamed Uson-dani (ウソん谷). The city newsletter records a tradition that it comes from villagers keeping up a lie, "We know nothing," to the Genji forces asking where Emperor Antoku had gone. At the shrine Antoku-gu (安徳宮), which enshrines the emperor, the Tenno-sama Gomori event has been held on the Sunday before his death anniversary (April 24).

Place name "Uso" (nickname "Uson-dani")
Tenno-sama Gomori on the Sunday before April 24
Antoku-gu, a shrine enshrining Emperor Antoku

02 ／ Jar Coffin No. 2 at the Antokudai Site

Bracelets of shells from Okinawa and the Nansei Islands:43 lay in one person's jar coffin.

Jar Coffin No. 2 of the Antokudai Site group (安徳台遺跡群) is a Yayoi-period jar-coffin burial. 43 shell bracelets made of Gohoura shell were buried with the person. Gohoura shell is a sea snail found only in the deep waters of Okinawa and the Nansei Islands, and one shell yields only one bracelet. The city says this person is thought to have held great power.

43 shell bracelets
One bracelet per shell
Yayoi-period jar-coffin burial

03 ／ Shoni Kagesuke

The city calls Shoni Kagesuke, who rode throughthe age of the Mongol invasions, a "local hero."

岩戸城説明板＋名簿＋少弐景資公之像.jpg — Photo by C2revenge (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Shoni Kagesuke (少弐景資) was based at Iwato in Naka-Togo (那珂東郷), Chikuzen Province, and a dictionary says he was active as a frontline commander in the Mongol invasions. In 1285 he lost the Iwato battle against his elder brother Tsunesuke (経資) and took his own life. In Yamada stand Iwato Castle Ruins (岩門城跡), 195 m high, and a grave attributed to Kagesuke.

1285: the Iwato battle
Iwato Castle Ruins: 195 m high
A grave attributed to Kagesuke in Yamada

Living here

An oval city, 14.5 km north to south and 6.2 km east to west.

about 50,000 people

The city lies in western Fukuoka Prefecture. Its shape is roughly oval: 14.5 km north to south, 6.2 km east to west, with an area of 74.95 km². Its southern part is ringed on three sides by the Sefuri Mountains, and the Naka River flows north to south through the middle of the city into Hakata Bay. In 1956 the three villages of Antoku, Iwato and Minamihata merged to form Nakagawa Town, which became a city in 2018.

People living here: 50,112people
Area: 74.95km²
Households: 19,078households
Rent (average for rentals): 53,008yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 37 clinics

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

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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Nakagawa City in Japan33.500°N 130.422°E

Territory of Nakagawa City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.0km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 福岡市, 筑紫野市, 大野城市, 春日市
Saga Prefecture: 吉野ヶ里町, 鳥栖市, みやき町, 上峰町

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

Nakagawa City isthis kind of town.

01Sakutano Unade (裂田溝) is a canal about 5.5 km long in total that draws water from the Naka River at Ichi-no-ide (一の井手) and runs through Antoku, Goromaru and Matsuki to Imamitsu. It has been recorded since the Nihon Shoki (日本書紀). Its slope drops about 20 cm every 100 m.
02The Nihon Shoki has a passage in which the digging of the canal was blocked by a huge rock at Todoroki Hill (迹驚岡, now Antokudai), until lightning struck, split the rock and let the water through. The city's booklet presents the granite bedrock found behind Sakuta Shrine as a discovery that supports this account.
03The city also holds the national historic site Antoku Otsuka Tumulus, the Iwato Kagura (岩戸神楽, a prefecturally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property) of Fushimi Shrine, the city-designated historic site Marunokuchi Tumulus Cluster, and the torii of Arahito Shrine inscribed "Shotoku 4."

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nakagawa City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗