Sasaguri Town

A tree standing in water has knees.

Kyudai Forest, Kamata Pond

Photo by そらみみ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Sasaguri Kyudai Forest

Part of a university research forest,17 hectares, was opened and is managed jointly with the town.

At the western edge of Kyushu University's Fukuoka Research Forest, about 17 hectares of woodland around Kamata Pond (蒲田池) are developed and managed jointly by the university and Sasaguri. At the 2010 opening, the university called opening research-forest woodland "the first attempt of its kind in Japan." The bald cypresses at the pond's edge send knee roots above the water.

About 17 ha; the path around the pond is about 2 km (town)
Opened July 18, 2010 (Kyushu University)
Bald cypresses planted when the botanical garden was built, about 30 years before 2008 (town newsletter)

02 ／ Sasaguri Shikoku Pilgrimage (篠栗四国八十八ヶ所霊場)

Sand brought back from the original Shikokuis said to have been laid in the village's sacred sites.

The nun Jinin proposed making 88 pilgrimage sites and died before it was done. Fujiki Tosuke of Sasaguri village carried on her aim, and the sand he brought back from a pilgrimage of the original Shikoku route, laid at 88 sacred sites in the village, is handed down as the beginning. The town describes it as having "a history of 180 years."

Said to be carried on by Fujiki Tosuke after Jinin (tourism association)
The town describes it as having a history of 180 years (town)

03 ／ Cedars of Mt. Wakasugi

A cedar whose trunk splits into fivewas found by DNA analysis to be one individual.

Yamato no Osugi (大和の大杉), on Mt. Wakasugi, has a trunk girth of 16.15 m and was confirmed in Heisei 12 (2000) after local information. It looks like five trunks, but DNA analysis showed one multi-stemmed individual. The Forestry Agency protects 3.74 ha on the mountain's mid-slope as a forest of cedars 200 years old or more.

Trunk girth 16.15 m (town, Forestry Agency)
Protected forest 3.74 ha, trees 200+ years old (Forestry Agency; designated March 31, 1993)

Living here

About 12 km east of central Fukuoka, with about 70% of its area forested.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

It spans about 8 km east to west and about 7 km north to south, ringed by peaks such as Mt. Wakasugi, with the Tatara River flowing east to west through the middle. Flat land opens around the river, and recreation facilities such as walking courses and campsites dot the forest.

People living here: 31,209people
Area: 38.93km²
Households: 12,228households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,875yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 14 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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 5 municipalities.

Sasaguri Town in Japan33.624°N 130.526°E

Territory of Sasaguri Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.8km

飯塚市, 久山町, 須恵町, 宮若市, 粕屋町

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

Sasaguri Town isthis kind of town.

01Sasaguri Kyudai Forest (篠栗九大の森) is a woodland of about 17 hectares, part of Kyushu University's Fukuoka Research Forest, opened to the public and developed and managed jointly by the university and Sasaguri. Bald cypresses stand at the edge of Kamata Pond in its center, and send up aerial roots, introduced as working like a diver's snorkel, above the water like knees.
02Stops on the Sasaguri Shikoku Pilgrimage dot the town, and Mt. Wakasugi has a Forestry Agency protected forest and scenic forest. The name Wakasugi is said to come from cedar branches divided from the Ayasugi of Kashii Shrine (香椎宮) and planted there. At the foot of the mountain, at the lower shrine of Taiso Shrine (太祖神社), Taiso Kagura (太祖神楽), a prefectural intangible folk cultural property, is performed every April and October.
03About 12 km east of central Fukuoka, the town is about 70% forest, with the Tatara River through its center. It also has Gotonotaki Falls (五塔ノ滝), the Komenoyama Observatory (米ノ山展望台) and the Wakasugi Rakuen campsite (若杉楽園キャンプ場).

See the town as it is now.

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

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