Mitake Town

Finance, cocoons, timber: merchant home.

Shoka Takeya, Mitake post town

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Madonna statue

During road work in 1981,relics of Christian faith were found.

During road work in 1981, relics of Christian faith were found by chance. Many more relics and remains were later found in nearby neighborhoods, including Utozaka, and the local tourist association says this revealed a history of hidden Christians in the area. The Madonna statue at Utozaka was erected in memory of the ancestors and in hope of happiness and peace for people.

Relics found in 1981
Relics and remains in three neighborhoods
A statue for remembrance and peace

02 ／ Former Fushimi Post Office

Beside a lattice-fronted townhouse,a Western-style former post office.

Matsuya Yamada House in the Fushimi post town is a two-story wooden machiya townhouse with a frontage of 15.1 m. The whole ground floor of its front is lattice, and a former post office in a Western-style design, finished in mortar, is attached on the east side. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records its construction as 1897, an extension in 1933, and registration as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.

Registered Tangible Cultural Property, March 29, 2013
Built 1897, extended 1933
Frontage 15.1 m

03 ／ Mimi Shrine awl blinds

As many awls as one's years,woven into a blind and offered.

At Mimi Shrine, on a rocky hill beside the Nakasendo, a carpenter who recovered his hearing is said to have offered an awl. According to the prefectural tourism site, people later began to offer as many awls as their years, woven together like a blind, and the tourist association writes that even now the offered blinds never run out.

As many awls as one's years
Woven together like a blind
Rocky hill beside the Nakasendo

Living here

Two Nakasendo post towns lie within one town.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town had two post towns, Mitake-juku and Fushimi-juku. Its area is 56.69 km² (as of October 1, 2014), 12.4 km east to west and 8.9 km north to south, at an elevation of 97 to 465 m. The gateway is Meitetsu Mitake Station, and the town office is at 1239-1 Mitake.

People living here: 17,516people
Area: 56.69km²
Households: 6,768households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,089yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 10 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

Mitake Town in Japan35.434°N 137.131°E

Territory of Mitake Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.1km

可児市, 八百津町, 瑞浪市, 土岐市, 美濃加茂市

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

Mitake Town isthis kind of town.

01Shoka Takeya is a merchant house on the north side of the Nakasendo in the Mitake post town; its main building is estimated to date from around 1877 (Meiji 10). The town says it handled finance and also cocoons, timber and cotton cloth, and the main building and tea room are designated by the town as tangible cultural properties (1997)
02Matsuya Yamada House in the Fushimi post town is a townhouse with a Western-style former post office on its east side, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2013. Relics of Christian faith were found during road work in 1981, and a Madonna statue stands at Utozaka
03At Mimi Shrine, people offer as many awls as their years, woven together like a blind. Utozaka Ichirizuka, a mile mound, was sold off and demolished in 1908 (Meiji 41), and the present mound was restored in 1973 by local volunteers, the prefectural tourism site writes

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mitake Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗