Umi Town

Umi Town isthis kind of town.

1. 01Yufuta no Mori (湯蓋の森) and Kinukake no Mori (衣掛の森) are two camphor trees in the grounds of Umi Hachimangu, designated a national natural monument in 1922 (Taisho 11). Kaibara Yoshifuru's Hachiman Hongi (『八幡本紀』) records that Empress Jingu used a birth bath beneath a camphor tree, that later people named it Yufuta no Mori, and that the camphor where she hung the birth robe is called Kinukake no Mori.
2. 02Umi Hachimangu is said to be where Empress Jingu gave birth to Emperor Ojin; the Ubuyu-no-mizu (産湯の水) birth-bath water, the Koyasu-no-ki (子安の木) tree and Enagaura (胞衣ヶ浦) are also part of the prefectural designation. At the Shioji Bishamon Mairi (四王寺毘沙門詣り) on January 3 (a town-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property), visitors borrow coins from the tray before the hall and return double the next year. Onojo Castle Ruins (大野城跡), a national Special Historic Site, spans Umi, Dazaifu and Onojo, and most of its interior lies in Umi.
3. 03A town in Kasuya District, part of the Fukuoka metropolitan area, bordering Onojo and Fukuoka to the west, Shime to the northwest, Sue to the north, Iizuka to the east, and Dazaifu and Chikushino to the south, with forest covering about 60% of its area.