Ibigawa Town

Mulberry fields became tea, about 300 m.

Kamigare tea fields

Photo by Alpsdake (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Nijo Kampaku Sosei no Izumi

Fleeing the capital, a kampaku is saidto have quenched his thirst at this spring.

蘇生の泉.jpg — Photo by Kent lee (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1353, a publication of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism records, the party escorting Gokogon-in set up a temporary palace below Toki Yoriyasu's Ojima Castle. Nijo Yoshimoto, who followed, is said to have quenched his thirst at a spring near Zuiganji Temple; it is a town-designated historic site. Yoshimoto wrote of the journey in his diary Ojima no Susami.

1353 (Bunwa 2)
Town-designated historic site
Diary Ojima no Susami

02 ／ Ibigawa yana fishing technique

Giant bamboo-and-log baskets line the riverbed,packed with stones to dam the water.

In 2016 the national government selected it as an intangible folk cultural property requiring record-making measures. Baskets called inoko form three weirs, tate, sode and mizutataki, and fish washed up onto a bamboo screen are caught. Descending ayu are the main target; the weir runs from August to mid-October and is dismantled entirely when the season ends.

National selection, March 2, 2016
Three weirs
Runs August to mid-October

03 ／ Yokokuraji three-storied pagoda

The upper stories shrink little,so the pagoda looks stable from below.

The three-storied pagoda of Yokokura-ji Temple, a Prefectural Important Cultural Property since 1989, is a cypress-bark-roofed three-bay pagoda. Its wayo-style tri-bracket system has a touch of karayo on the rear cusped window. The prefecture explains that it appears to date from Kanbun 3 (1663), judging from ink inscriptions and other evidence.

Prefectural Important Cultural Property, 1989
Cypress-bark roof
Appears to date from Kanbun 3 (1663)

Living here

Over nine-tenths of the town is forest.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town formed on January 31, 2005 from the merger of one town and five villages, and lies at the far west of Gifu Prefecture. Its total area is 803.44 km², 7.6% of the prefecture, and the Ibi River flows from northwest to southeast. The gateway is Ibi Station on the Yoro Railway Yoro Line.

People living here: 19,529people
Area: 803.44km²
Households: 7,067households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,526yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-01-31 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

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 10 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Ibigawa Town in Japan35.487°N 136.569°E

Territory of Ibigawa Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

45.1km

Gifu Prefecture: 本巣市, 大野町, 池田町, 垂井町, 関ケ原町
Shiga Prefecture: 米原市, 長浜市
Fukui Prefecture: 南越前町, 大野市, 池田町

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

Ibigawa Town isthis kind of town.

01The Kamigare tea fields lie at an elevation of about 300 m in Kasuga Mutsuai; the town explains that silkworm raising flourished until 1960 and the mulberry fields later became tea fields because tea sold at a high price. Yabukita has also been grown since 1980 and makes up 60% of current production
02The Nijo Kampaku Sosei no Izumi spring is a town-designated historic site in Ojima, and a manuscript of Yoshimoto's travel diary Ojima no Susami is a Prefectural Important Cultural Property. The graves of Toki Yorikiyo and Yoriyasu are a prefectural historic site, and the Ibigawa yana technique is nationally selected as an intangible folk cultural property
03The main hall, pagoda and Nio gate of Yokokura-ji Temple are Prefectural Important Cultural Properties. The Ibi Festival floats are a prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property and the Tanigumi dance an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; the town introduces Tanigumisan Kegon-ji Temple as the 33rd temple of the Saigoku Thirty-three Kannon Pilgrimage

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ibigawa Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗