Sue Town

Peridotite boulders pile up in a park.

Sarayama Park, rock garden

Photo by 水だらけのプール (CC0)

01 ／ Ganryo Shukuba (眼療宿場)

The Ganmoku Ryojicho records patientswho came from as far as Matsumae.

The Oka (Takaba) and Tahara ophthalmologist families of Sue were taken on as physicians of the Fukuoka Domain in the Edo period. According to the Ganmoku Ryojicho (眼目療治帳), the treatment register, over 1,000 people a year came for treatment. Farmers ran inns for the patients, giving the area the look of a post town. Tahara is said to have been counted among Japan's four great ophthalmology houses.

Prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (designated October 5, 2005)
Over 1,000 people a year came for treatment (town)
Tahara Yozen residence site: town-designated historic site (May 1, 1992)

02 ／ Fukuoka Domain Porcelain Kiln Site (福岡藩磁器御用窯跡)

A kiln begun privatelylater became the domain's own.

Sue-yaki (須恵焼) porcelain was first fired in 1764 and continued for about 140 years, until the kiln closed around 1902. A person attached to the domain's commissioner of temples and shrines began it privately, and the Sue Sarayama Yakusho (須恵皿山役所), the domain's kiln office, was later set up. The Meiji-period kinsabi sometsuke (金錆染付) wares are said to have no parallel elsewhere. The kiln site is a prefectural historic site.

Prefectural historic site (designated March 1, 1980)
About 140 years, from 1764 to around 1902 (town)
Eight Sue-yaki pieces are town-designated tangible cultural properties

03 ／ Moribo Shrine (守母神社)

A borrowed doll goes back a year laterwith a new one beside it.

Moribo Shrine in Sue is enshrined as a god of child-minding and of stopping babies' night crying, from the sad tale of a wet nurse at the fall of Takatorii Castle (高鳥居城). At the grand festival each April, people visit with their children, receive a talisman and borrow a doll. A year later they offer the borrowed doll and a newly bought one, praying for the child's healthy growth.

Town-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated September 1, 1980)
Grand festival held every April
Dolls are borrowed, then offered a year later

Living here

Mountains lie to the east and north, and the town has three JR stations.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

About 10 km east of Fukuoka, the town has Mt. Wakasugi (若杉山) and Mt. Takejo (岳城山) on its eastern and northern sides. It has three JR stations and the Sue Smart Interchange on the Kyushu Expressway, and in recent years development as a bedroom community of Fukuoka has advanced from the northwest to the southwest.

People living here: 28,628people
Area: 16.31km²
Households: 10,942households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,706yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Sue Town in Japan33.587°N 130.507°E

Territory of Sue Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.4km

宇美町, 篠栗町, 粕屋町, 志免町, 飯塚市

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

Sue Town isthis kind of town.

01Sarayama Park (皿山公園) is a town park spreading at the foot of Mt. Wakasugi, where 30,000 azaleas bloom in spring. It has a rock garden of piled peridotite, and the town's account of how the Kuga Memorial Hall (久我記念館) came to be says the material of the Christian-era "sheep-shaped stone tablet" (羊型石版) was peridotite from Sue.
02The town's history and folklore museum in the park (opened in 1973) holds materials on the eye-patient inns, the Oka and Tahara ophthalmologists, Sue-yaki and coal mining. There are also the prefecturally designated Shocho 2 (1325) Sanskrit-character stone tablet at Kensho-ji temple in Saya (建正寺), the Gion Yamakasa festival of Kamisue Suga Shrine (上須恵須賀神社), and Shinbara Park (新原公園), where a coal-mining monument remains.
03A town in Kasuya District, about 10 km east of Fukuoka. It has three JR stations.

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