Tomika Town

A gate housing two of the Four Kings.

Kiyomizu-dera, Nitenmon Gate

Photo by 先従隗始 (CC0)

01 ／ Yuda Chausuyama Kofun

A 39.5 m keyhole-shaped tomb carries onthe Yayoi burial-mound way of building.

The Yuda Funbogun, a group of burial mounds, lies on hills on the left bank of the Kawaura River. Two of them, Hasuno No. 1 and Yuda Chausuyama Kofun, were designated a National Historic Site in 2022. Chausuyama dates to the mid-3rd century, and the town explains that its construction method carries on the tradition of Yayoi-period burial mounds.

National Historic Site, designated Nov. 10, 2022
39.5 m long
Built in the mid-3rd century

02 ／ Hanyuri household register

Village remains found when the town hall was builtdrew notice as possibly part of the 702 register's village.

The household register of Taiho 2 (702) survives in the Shosoin in Nara, with the names, family relations and ages of 1,119 people in 54 households kept almost completely. Hanyuri is thought to correspond to today's Tomika, and the town records that excavations around the town office have confirmed 157 buildings, including pit dwellings.

Register of Taiho 2 (702)
54 households, 1,119 people
157 buildings around the town office

03 ／ Kimura Shoshu

For the library a Kajita-born writer dreamed of,15 cartloads of books were brought in.

Kimura Shoshu, a children's writer, was born in Kajita in 1881 and worked at the publisher Hakubunkan in Tokyo. His autobiography says that as a boy he learned of libraries and dreamed of one in his home village. In November 1913 the Gifu Tsuzoku Library opened in Gifu City. His handwritten manuscript volumes, 102 in all, remain at the town's local museum.

Born 1881 (Meiji 14)
15 cartloads of books
102 volumes of manuscripts

Living here

The town's only rail station is Tomika, on the Nagaragawa Railway.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The town's yearbook gives the route from the Nagoya side as "via Mino-Ota Station on the JR Takayama Main Line, then the Nagaragawa Railway to Tomika Station, about 55 to 70 minutes by rail." The total area is 16.82 km², and the town says it lies a little south of the center of Gifu Prefecture.

People living here: 5,626people
Area: 16.82km²
Households: 1,967households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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 2 municipalities.

Tomika Town in Japan35.485°N 136.980°E

Territory of Tomika Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.7km

美濃加茂市, 関市

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

Tomika Town isthis kind of town.

01Nitenmon at Kiyomizu-dera is a prefecturally designated building named for the two of the Four Heavenly Kings, Jikokuten and Zochoten, enshrined in it; the town says its date of construction is unknown but thought to be no later than the mid-Edo period
02Of the Yuda Funbogun, Yuda Chausuyama Kofun (39.5 m long, mid-3rd century) and Hasuno No. 1 are a National Historic Site; Hanyuri, named in the household register of 702, is thought to be today's Tomika, and remains of an ancient village have been found around the town office
03Kimura Shoshu, born in Kajita, is known as the person who opened the first general-public library in Gifu Prefecture, and 102 volumes of his manuscripts remain at the local museum; the Ta-no-kami Festival at Iwa Shrine is a prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tomika Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗