Kitahiroshima Town

Its front faced east, walled in stone.

Kikkawa Motoharu residence ruins

Photo by OS6 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Tarutoko village and Lake Hijiri (樽床集落・聖湖)

Life in a village under the lake is toldby 479 tools and a relocated house.

Tarutoko village lies under Lake Hijiri (聖湖), formed by dam construction. 479 pieces of everyday tools, chiefly gathered in 1957 with some from nearby areas added, and a chūmon-zukuri farmhouse moved from the flooded area are nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties. They are shown at the Geihoku Folk Museum (芸北民俗博物館) on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from May to November.

479 tools and 1 house nationally designated
Tools gathered in 1957
House said to date from the Tenmei era (1781–1789)

02 ／ Ōasa Tengushide Grove (大朝のテングシデ群落)

The twisting of the trunks is a mutationthat has become genetically fixed.

On the lower southeast slope of Mt. Kumaki (熊城山), in secondary forest, grows tengushide (テングシデ), a variety of Japanese hornbeam (inushide). The twisting trunks are not an effect of soil or weather but a mutation-induced trait that has become genetically fixed. No old documents record them, but reverence for the trees and a taboo against harming them are thought to have protected them.

National Natural Monument since 2000
Prefectural Natural Monument since 1937
Habitat at about 650 m

03 ／ Mibu no Hana-taue (壬生の花田植)

Oxen puddle the paddy, and to the beatplanters set seedlings along a rope.

After a parade along the Mibu shopping street, decorated oxen puddle the paddy, and to the beat of big drums, small drums, flutes and hand gongs and to rice-planting songs, the women planters (早乙女) set seedlings along a rope. Showa-era planting often used a frame as a guide, but hana-taue keeps the older rope method (tsuna-ue). It is held every year on the first Sunday of June.

Held every first Sunday of June
Rope planting (tsuna-ue)
National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1976

Living here

In the Geihoku highlands, over 1 m of snow falls in winter.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

A town in 山県郡 covering 646.24 km². In the Geihoku highlands over 1 m of snow lies in winter, and there are three ski areas. Highway buses run to Hiroshima and Hamada.

People living here: 17,763people
Area: 646.2km²
Households: 7,677households
Rent (average for rentals): 29,507yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kitahiroshima Town in Japan34.675°N 132.538°E

Territory of Kitahiroshima Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

26.4km

Hiroshima Prefecture: 安芸太田町, 安芸高田市, 広島市
Shimane Prefecture: 浜田市, 邑南町, 益田市

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

Kitahiroshima Town isthis kind of town.

01Kikkawa Motoharu's residence ruins mark the retirement villa built by Kikkawa Motoharu, second son of Mōri Motonari; its east side is bounded by a stone wall, and in the northwest is a garden of pond, mound and waterfall stones, a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
02Tools and a farmhouse from Tarutoko village, which lies under Lake Hijiri, are kept at the Geihoku Folk Museum, and on the slope of Mt. Kumaki in Ōasa grows a grove of tengushide, a variety of Japanese hornbeam.
03The Mibu no Hana-taue is held every first Sunday of June; at Yasaka Shrine in Ōasa stand two hinoki cypresses called male and female for the shape of their roots, and at the Mantoku-in ruins a steam bath has been reconstructed.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kitahiroshima Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗