Ukiha City

Three gables in a row face the front.

Hirakawa Residence, kudo-zukuri

01 ／ Mezurashizuka Kofun

On the rear wall are painted a gondola-shaped boatand toads said to live on the moon.

One of the four tombs of the Yakata Kofun Group (屋形古墳群). It seems to have been destroyed long ago, leaving only the rear wall bearing the painting and the base stones. On the rear wall, red and blue pigments depict quivers, concentric circles, a gondola-shaped boat and two toads, with dots used heavily. Under the city's Reiwa 8 (FY2026) schedule, it is opened to visitors four times a year, by reservation.

National historic site (Yakata Kofun Group; designated March 31, 1953)
Rear wall about 2.5 m wide and 1 m high (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Open on the third Saturday of June, September, December and March (FY2026; reservation required)

02 ／ Igura no Yakata

A branch of a landowner who made a fortune in wax refining:the family engaged in banking lived here.

Igura no Yakata (居蔵の館) is a representative igura-style house (居蔵家), highly finished even among the earthen-walled storehouse-style (土蔵造り) buildings that make up the Yoshii townscape. It was built in the late Meiji era and rebuilt in the early Taisho era. Chikugo-Yoshii prospered as a post station on the Bungo Kaido road (豊後街道) and through the financial activities of influential merchants known as Yoshii-gane (吉井銀).

Built in the late Meiji era, rebuilt in the early Taisho era
Chikugo-Yoshii is a nationally selected preservation district (December 10, 1996; 20.7 ha)
Free to visit; closed Mondays (10:00 to 16:30)

03 ／ Open-Air Circular Theater

Designed with the slope as seating and the flat ground as stage,it was built by the people of Yamaharu Village.

It stands on a slope northwest of Michi-no-Eki Ukiha (道の駅うきは) in Yamakita, in the former Ukiha town (浮羽町). Completed on October 16, 1925 (Taisho 14). The people of Yamaharu Village built it under the direction of the Wakabakai (嫩葉会), which the city describes as "Japan's first farmers' theater company." Long buried in soil, it was restored in 2017 (Heisei 29).

Completed on October 16, 1925 (Taisho 14)
Excavated in 2015, restored in 2017
100th anniversary of construction in 2025 (city)

Living here

Paddies on the plain, orchards at the foothills, terraced fields in the mountains.

about 30,000 people

In the southeast of Fukuoka Prefecture, the city borders Asakura to the north, Kurume to the west, Yame and Hita (Oita Prefecture) to the south, and Hita to the east. The Mino Mountains rise to the south and the Chikugo River flows along the north; about 70 percent of the city's area is forest and farmland. The city's symbol tree is the persimmon.

People living here: 27,981people
Area: 117.46km²
Households: 10,128households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,255yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 29 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 across 1 prefectures.

Ukiha City in Japan33.347°N 130.755°E

Territory of Ukiha City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.3km

Fukuoka Prefecture: 八女市, 久留米市, 朝倉市
Oita Prefecture: 日田市

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

Ukiha City isthis kind of town.

01The Hirakawa Residence (平川家住宅) in Tagomori, in the former Ukiha town (浮羽町), is a farmhouse in the kudo-zukuri (くど造り) style, with a U-shaped roof (凹字形). Its main house and barn were designated Important Cultural Properties in 1971. The thatched main house has three gables lined up across its front, it is still used as a residence, and the inside can be visited with advance reservation.
02The city has the nationally designated Yakata Kofun Group and the Chikugo-Yoshii district, a nationally selected Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The Kusumori Kawakita Residence (楠森河北家住宅) is a nationally registered tangible cultural property, and the city records its kabeyui (壁結), the repair of the bamboo fence around the estate, as a custom lasting over 300 years. The Tsuzura terraced rice fields are among the 100 Selected Terraced Rice Fields of Japan, with a spider lily (higanbana) viewing event every year, and the Oishi Weir (大石堰) was opened in the Edo period at the initiative of five village heads and still waters the paddies downstream.
03In the southeast of Fukuoka Prefecture, the city was formed in 2005 (Heisei 17) by the merger of the former Ukiha town (浮羽町) and the former Yoshii town (吉井町). In the orchard zone of the foothills grow persimmons, which the city calls a nationally leading product of the area.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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