Nakama City

The number of planks set the water flow.

Nakama Karato of Horikawa Canal

Photo by そらみみ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Nakama Karato, Horikawa Canal

Work on the Horikawa stopped at Nagamasa's death,and resumed only 130 years later.

Completed in 1762 (Horeki 12) as the intake gate from the Onga River, the karato (sluice gate) regulated the water by the number of long, thin planks set into its groove. The Horikawa canal was begun in 1621 (Genna 7) on the order of Kuroda Nagamasa, but work stopped with his death. Beside the Karato Community Hall stand two camphor trees designated city natural monuments.

Completed in 1762 (Horeki 12) (city)
Prefectural historic site "Horikawa" (former name: the Nakama Karato sluice gate)
The Karato camphor trees are 22 m tall and about 250 to 300 years old (city)

02 ／ Habu Rakan Hyakketsu

Among the Kofun-period burial caves,many hold stone Buddhas.

Around Rakan-yama in Habu Park, about 50 burial caves of the late Kofun period (second half of the 6th century) are scattered; they seem to have been made over some 200 years. The stone Buddhas inside are thought to have been enshrined in later ages, and the caves seem to remain a place of local worship. Excavation showed that the hill was deliberately built up with earth.

Prefectural historic site
About 50 caves scattered (prefectural tourism site)
Late Kofun period, second half of the 6th century (city)
Free entry (prefectural tourism site)

03 ／ Tsukigata Kiyoshi

A surname from Nakasokoino villagebecame the name of a Hokkaido town.

Tsukigata Kiyoshi was born in 1847 (Koka 4), the son of a Fukuoka domain samurai, in Nakasokoino village, Onga District. Appointed the first warden of the Kabato Prison, he gave his surname to Tsukigata in Hokkaido, which came into being as a village on July 1, 1881 (Meiji 14). At the Nakasokoino Community Hall, a statue and a monument are introduced as places linked to him.

Born in 1847 (Koka 4) in Nakasokoino village, Onga District (Tsukigata Town)
Tsukigata was founded as a village on July 1, Meiji 14 (Tsukigata Town)

Living here

The Onga River runs through the middle of the city, splitting it into east and west.

about 40,000 people

In northern Fukuoka, the city borders Kitakyushu, Onga District and Kurate District. The city is divided by the Onga River into what locals call Kawahigashi (east of the river) and Kawanishi (west); Kawahigashi, on the Kitakyushu side, has housing and shops against a hilly backdrop and holds 90 percent of the city's population. Until the early 1960s it prospered as a "coal-mining town".

People living here: 40,362people
Area: 15.96km²
Households: 17,369households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,765yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 32 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Nakama City in Japan33.817°N 130.709°E

Territory of Nakama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.5km

北九州市, 水巻町, 鞍手町, 遠賀町

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

Nakama City isthis kind of town.

01The Nakama Karato of Horikawa Canal (堀川の中間唐戸) is a sluice gate that takes water from the Onga River into the Horikawa canal, regulating the flow by the number of long, thin planks set into its groove. It is a prefectural cultural property and is included in a course of the Nakama Footpath tourism routes.
02Habu Park holds the prefecturally designated Habu Rakan Hyakketsu (垣生羅漢百穴), and a green path on the former Japanese National Railways Katsuki Line site holds some 30 replicas of the world's famous stone statues, the "Museum Without a Roof." The Onga River Water Source Pumping Station, a component of the World Heritage "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution," can be viewed from outside at its viewing space. Nekojo-shi (猫城址) is a castle site from the Muromachi period, fought over by the Aso and Munakata clans, and the Tsukise Hachiman shrine now stands there.
03A city in northern Fukuoka that adopted city status in 1958 (Showa 33). The Onga River runs through its center from north to south, and it borders Kitakyushu, Onga District and Kurate District.

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