Fuchu Town

Hexagonal wall timbers in an azekura.

Take Shrine's treasure house

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Imadegawa Shimizu (今出川清水)

The spring chosen as a "Hundred Waters" under the nameDeai Shimizu was found to be Imadegawa Shimizu.

In 1985 the spring was chosen for the Environment Agency's "Hundred Waters" list as Deai Shimizu (出合清水). A 2012 survey of old maps showed its correct name to be Imadegawa Shimizu. Under an old rule, the water below the small shrine was for drinking, the next pool for rice and vegetables, and the last for washing clothes.

Chosen for the Hundred Waters list in 1985
Name corrected after a 2012 survey
The Ministry of the Environment lists it as Imadegawa Shimizu

02 ／ Shimo-okada Government Office Site (下岡田官衙遺跡)

Two tile-roofed buildings on foundation stonesare very likely the Aki relay station.

Excavations began in the mid-1950s and have been carried out 11 times. Two tile-roofed buildings on foundation stones from the mid-8th century stand in an L shape facing the ancient Sanyō road. A relay station (umaya, 駅家) supplied horses, meals and lodging to officials on duty. The designated land is private, and the town asks visitors not to enter.

Two tile-roofed buildings (mid-8th century)
Excavated 11 times
Designated a National Historic Site on March 26, 2021

03 ／ Tadokoro Documents (田所文書)

The Tadokoro family, provincial officials of Aki,hand down documents from the Kamakura period.

The site is said to be the Tadokoro family's residence, and the Tadokoro Documents record "one chō of the provincial office residence". The colophon of volume 2 is dated Shōō 2 (1289) and lists private land of tens of chō and retainers scattered around Fuchū. It became a Hiroshima Prefecture Important Cultural Property in 1969.

Prefectural Important Cultural Property, 1969
Volume 2 colophon dated Shōō 2 (1289)
"One chō of the provincial office residence"

Living here

Surrounded on all sides by Hiroshima City.

about 50,000 people
Rural district town

An exclave of Aki District, the town measures 4.18 km east to west and 5.20 km north to south, covering 10.41 km². It kept nearly the same area as Edo-period Fuchū Village and adopted town status in 1937. The town's own site calls it Japan's most populous town or village (2025 census). Its flower, the camellia, was chosen in 1984 because camellias grow wild in shrine and temple grounds and Mt. Kurosasau (呉娑々宇山) has a stand of wild camellias.

People living here: 51,155people
Area: 10.41km²
Households: 21,615households
Rent (average for rentals): 62,768yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 41 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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 1 municipalities.

Fuchu Town in Japan34.393°N 132.505°E

Territory of Fuchu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.2km

広島市

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

Fuchu Town isthis kind of town.

01In Fuchū's Take Shrine (多家神社) stands a treasure house (hōzō, 宝蔵), a prefecturally designated azekura whose walls are built of timbers with hexagonal sections. When the shrine was founded in the Meiji era, the Inari shrine buildings of Hiroshima Castle's third enclosure were moved here, and this is the one that remains as it was.
02Imadegawa Shimizu, the nationally designated Shimo-okada Government Office Site and the prefecturally designated Tadokoro Documents belong to a town said to have been the seat of Aki Province in ancient times.
03An exclave of Aki District surrounded by Hiroshima City, with an area of 10.41 km². Its flower is the camellia, chosen because camellias grow in shrine and temple grounds and wild stands are seen on Mt. Kurosasau (呉娑々宇山).

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fuchu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗