Ikeda Town

Round burial mounds dot the foot of Mount Ikeda.

Ganjoji Nishitsukanokoshi Kofun

Photo by Alpsdake (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kamagatani Valley

On a mountain where cutting plants was banned,cherry trees spread.

Kamagatani was a valley that six neighbouring villages used for fuel grass and firewood, fodder and fertiliser grass, and as a water source. Because cutting too much vegetation loosens the ground, people banned it under a rule called kamadome, and the valley's name is said to come from it. Cherry trees spread on the protected mountain, and it is said to have come to be called Kamagatani (valley of haze).

Valley used by six villages
Cutting banned under kamadome
1928: national Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument

02 ／ Jizo of the milk plea

A pilgrim begged for milk; a village headman's wifeis said to have set up six Jizo statues.

In 1823 (Bunsei 6), a pilgrim from a village in Iyo Province, carrying a wish to set up a Jizo statue, fell ill and begged passers-by for milk. The village headman's wife, Mine, the only one who tried to answer, is said to have set up six Jizo statues and a signpost in Yawata. The pedestal inscription names the donor as a man from that Iyo village.

May 1823 (Bunsei 6)
The headman's wife, Mine
Ikeda Town historic site

03 ／ Ichihashi Port site

The Kuise River port that loaded limestonevanished after the railway and the lock.

Around 1892 (Meiji 25), a man who noticed the Kuise River's plentiful water opened this port, and at its peak a cooperative of over 260 boats was formed. Mainly limestone went to Nagoya, Kuwana and elsewhere, but limestone moved to the railway, and when a lock was built on the river in 1938 (Showa 13), navigation became difficult and the port disappeared that year.

Opened c. 1892 (Meiji 25)
Peak: cooperative of over 260 boats
1938 (Showa 13): port disappeared

Living here

At the northern tip of the Nobi Plain, with Mount Ikeda behind.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town lies at the northern tip of the Nobi Plain, with the 924 m Mount Ikeda to its west, and mountains cover a third of the town's area. It covers 38.80 km2 and lies 12 km from Ogaki and 20 km from Gifu City. The Yoro Railway runs through the town, and south of Kita-Ikeno Station there is a free car park for 41 vehicles that town office and community centre visitors can also use.

People living here: 23,360people
Area: 38.8km²
Households: 8,395households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,445yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 9 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 5 municipalities.

Ikeda Town in Japan35.442°N 136.573°E

Territory of Ikeda Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.6km

揖斐川町, 神戸町, 垂井町, 大垣市, 大野町

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

Ikeda Town isthis kind of town.

01The Ganjoji Nishitsukanokoshi Kofun cluster is a group of burial mounds on the alluvial fan between the Otsu and Naka valleys at the eastern foot of Mount Ikeda, thought to have been built from the 6th to the 7th century and designated a historic site of Gifu Prefecture in 1969 (Showa 44); the town says about 9 hectares hold 111 mounds found so far, while the prefecture records 108
02Kamagatani, a national Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument, was a valley where six neighbouring villages gathered grass and firewood; cherry trees are said to have spread after cutting was banned under kamadome. On the Tanigumi Pilgrimage Road, six Jizo statues are said to have been set up by a headman's wife who answered a pilgrim's plea for milk, now a town historic site
03Ichihashi Port, opened around 1892, carried limestone and other goods by Kuise River boat and disappeared in 1938. The town has Mount Ikeda, 924 m high, to its west, and tea fields spread over its eastern slope

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ikeda Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗