Fukuyama City

A whole domain began sediment control.

Dōdōgawa no Sunadome

01 ／ Hand-woven Nakatsugi-omote

Joining two rushes in the middlelet even short rushes become tatami facing.

Traditional tatami facing (hikidōshi-omote, 引通表) was woven from one long rush. Nakatsugi-omote (手織中継表) runs two rushes in from both edges and joins them in the middle, using only the evenly thick central part. Hasegawa Shin'emon of Sanna village on the Numakuma Peninsula devised it around the Keichō era.

National Selected Conservation Technique (2023)
Addition to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list decided (December 2025)
Hasegawa Shin'emon (1531–1612)

02 ／ Nunakuma Shrine Noh Stage

An assembling stage from Fushimi Castleis said to have been donated to the shrine.

The assembling stage of Fushimi Castle was reportedly received by Mizuno Katsunari, first lord of Fukuyama, and later donated to Nunakuma Shrine by his successor Katsusada. Fixed in place in 1738, it still keeps traces of its assembling design, such as numbered members and panel-type roof.

Important Cultural Property (designated 1953)
Fixed in place in 1738 (Genbun 3)
Members carry numbers and marks

03 ／ Abuto Kannon

On the cliff at the tip of Abuto Cape,a vermilion Kannon hall stands.

The Kannon hall of Bandai-ji, at the south end of the Numakuma Peninsula, is said to have been built by Mōri Terumoto in the Genki era (1570–1573). Its exterior is red-lacquered, its coffered ceiling bears a richly colored painting of a hundred flowers, and votive plaques called "oppai ema" cover the walls inside.

Important Cultural Property (designated 1956)
Said to date from the Genki era (1570–1573)
Admission 300 yen (junior high school and older)

Living here

From the Shinkansen platform, the castle looms close.

about 460,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Shinkansen stops here

Fukuyama lies at the southeastern tip of Hiroshima Prefecture and covers 517.72 km². Fukuyama Castle can be seen close from the Shinkansen platform, and Tomonoura to the south is a Japan Heritage port town. The city has over 400 rose flowerbeds, and Matsunaga has geta clogs said to have begun with firewood from its salt fields.

People living here: 460,930people
Area: 517.72km²
Households: 193,371households
Rent (average for rentals): 50,930yen
Healthcare: 40 hospitals ／ 344 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2003-02-03 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。2005-02-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。2006-03-01 に編入合併（神辺町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —107 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Fukuyama City in Japan34.486°N 133.362°E

to TokyoTokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen206min
to NagoyaTokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen111min
to OsakaSanyo Shinkansen61min

Travel times follow JR西日本「JRおでかけネット」区間時刻表『東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/1796 ・2026年9月29日〈火〉のダイヤ。本体が保存した表 $SP/jr-shinkansen-down-20260929.json の福山『発』の欄を数え直し、福山に停まる99本のうち東京・名古屋・京都・新大阪から乗り換えなしで着く列車の列車ページを全部開いて、福山の『着』の時刻で数えた）。列車ページの例：のぞみ1号 https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/18511?date=20260929 ・のぞみ101号 https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/314261?date=20260929 ・さくら767号 https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/316121?date=20260929（いずれも『毎日運転』） (checked 2026-09-29). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Fukuyama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

44.7km

Hiroshima Prefecture: 神石高原町, 尾道市, 府中市
Okayama Prefecture: 井原市, 笠岡市

Fukuyama City isthis kind of town.

01The Dōdōgawa sunadome (砂留) are sediment-control works that the Fukuyama domain built in the Edo period on the Dōdō River, which sweeps sediment downstream in heavy rain; they are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. The city's plan says the sunadome built in the Edo period still function.
02On the Numakuma Peninsula the nakatsugi weave of tatami facing was devised; Nunakuma Shrine in Tomo has a Noh stage said to derive from an assembling stage of Fushimi Castle, and a Kannon hall stands at the tip of Abuto Cape.
03In Kannabe survives the diary that Kuzuhara Kōtō, a blind koto master, wrote with wooden type of his own design, and Matsunaga has a communal well from its salt-field days. The city is also known for Fukuyama Castle, Tomonoura and its city of roses.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fukuyama City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗