Onojo City

Forging tools lie in a foothill tumulus.

Zen'ichida Tumulus Cluster

Photo by 水だらけのプール (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ District boundary stone

On the east face of a pillar set at a district border,it reads "From here east, Mikasa District; west, Naka District."

A relic of the old Hita Kaido road (日田街道), this 117 cm square stone pillar marked the border between Mikasa District and Naka District. Erected in 1817 (Bunka 14), five years after Ino Tadataka surveyed this area, it was badly weathered and moved to the city museum in 2000 (Heisei 12). A marker stone and explanatory board now stand at the original site.

A square stone pillar 117 cm high
Erected in 1817 (Bunka 14)
City-designated Tangible Folk Cultural Property (designated March 18, 1994)

02 ／ Umegashira Kiln Site

A tomb made by reusing a Sue ware kilnheld an iron sword.

Part of the nationally designated Ushikubi Sue Ware Kiln Sites, it lies in Mikaneike Park in Kamiori. After the kiln ceased operation it is thought to have been reused as a tomb, and an iron sword, iron arrowheads and Sue ware were unearthed from inside. The kiln site is about 11.5 m long; a shelter stands over it and it can be viewed freely.

Part of the Ushikubi Sue Ware Kiln Sites, a national historic site (designated February 12, 2009)
The kiln site is about 11.5 m long (city)
The shelter was built in March 2004 (city)

03 ／ Hirano Shrine miyaza

Men holding sakaki leaves in their mouthspound rice cakes with upright pestles in the miyaza.

Hirano Shrine in Ushikubi is said by tradition to have been founded in the Shoryaku era (990-994), and is the oldest shrine in the city. The city's booklet records that its miyaza (ritual guild) is still held over three days in October. Mochi pounding is the most sacred rite: 12 men pound with pestles cut from a shii tree, sakaki leaves held in their mouths.

Said by tradition to have been founded in the Shoryaku era (990-994)
Held over three days in October by 12 members (city booklet, revised March 2021)
Pestles cut from a shii tree; sakaki leaves held in the mouth

Living here

The city's center is only about 1 km wide.

about 100,000 people

Adjoining Fukuoka City to its south, the gourd-shaped city measures about 6 km east to west and 8.5 km north to south. Its flat center takes up 50% of the city's area, where the Ushikubi and Mikasa rivers meet. Greenery remains on Mt. Shioji and Mt. Otogane in the northeast, and on Mt. Ushikubi in the south and southwest.

People living here: 102,085people
Area: 26.89km²
Households: 42,781households
Rent (average for rentals): 59,292yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 70 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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.

Onojo City in Japan33.536°N 130.479°E

Territory of Onojo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.1km

太宰府市, 春日市, 福岡市, 宇美町, 那珂川市, 筑紫野市

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

Onojo City isthis kind of town.

01The Zen'ichida Tumulus Cluster is a 6th-7th century group of about 30 round tombs and 11 pit graves on the western skirt of Mt. Otogane. Smithing tools and other items were unearthed from the stone chamber of Tomb No. 18, showing close ties to people involved in ironworking and exchange with the Korean Peninsula. It is a prefectural historic site (designated 2021), open to the public as Zen'ichida Kofun Park.
02The original district boundary stone was moved in 2000 (Heisei 12) to the city museum (Onojo City Museum, おおのじょうシティミュージアム; nickname Onojo Kokoro-no-Furusato-kan, 大野城心のふるさと館). The city also has the Ushikubi Sue Ware Kiln Sites, a national historic site that includes the Umegashira Kiln Site, and the miyaza of Hirano Shrine in Ushikubi. The Tsutsui Well, of which the Chikuzen-no-kuni Zoku Fudoki (筑前国続風土記) records that "only on the night of the winter solstice does it not well up," is a prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
03A gourd-shaped city adjoining Fukuoka City to the south, it prospered as a crossroads linking Hakata and Dazaifu; its name comes from the ancient mountain fortress Onojo, built in 665 on Mt. Ono (now Mt. Shioji).

See the town as it is now.

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

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