Mihara City

At high tide, it is shoulder-deep.

Magai Wareishi Jizo, Sagishima

Photo by Likibp (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Otō (御當) at Kui Inari Shrine

Without touching it, a knife alonecuts a big sea bream into sashimi.

久井稲生神社.jpg — Photo by OS6 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

At the autumn festival, the East and West seats offer a big sea bream and amazake. In the next rite, "Ba no uo" (場の魚), the knife master prepares the fish with knife work alone. It is held close to the form recorded in the 1598 "Inari Otō no Oboe" (稲荷御當之覚), and the state selected it as an intangible folk cultural property needing a record.

Close to the form in a 1598 record
Selected by the state, Dec. 1981
East and West seats offer the sea bream

02 ／ Noji Spring Festival Futon Danjiri (能地春祭のふとんだんじり)

Danjiri decorated with seven futonsparade through Noji's spring festival.

At the spring festival of the local shrine (常磐神社) in Noji, Saizaki, each neighborhood from 1-chome to 4-chome escorts a "futon danjiri" (ふとんだんじり) decorated with seven futons on top. Two made-up, dressed-up boys ride in it and beat drums. Noji was a port where many ebune (家船), fishers' houseboats, moored.

Hiroshima Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property (1995)
Two boys ride and beat drums
A port where many houseboats moored

03 ／ Keitekishu (啓迪集)

A colophon in the medical text saysDosan gave it to Takakage's physician.

Keitekishu (啓迪集), by Manase Dosan, runs to eight volumes and covers medicine as a whole. His own colophon shows he gave it in 1583 to Mizuno Shorinken, physician to Kobayakawa Takakage. No printed edition exists; the Mihara City Board of Education now holds it.

Eight volumes
Given to Takakage's physician in 1583
Hiroshima Prefecture Important Cultural Property (1955)

Living here

Islands to the south, hills of the Sera plateau to the north.

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

The city faces the Seto Inland Sea, with islands such as Sagishima (佐木島) offshore. Plains spread along the Nuta River, and the north is hilly flatland forming part of the Sera plateau. The city describes its south as warm and dry for the prefecture. Mihara Station is a Shinkansen stop, and the tourism association says the port is about a five-minute walk from it.

People living here: 90,573people
Area: 471.51km²
Households: 39,091households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,944yen
Healthcare: 9 hospitals ／ 62 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-22 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —22 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Mihara City in Japan34.397°N 133.079°E

to OsakaSanyo Shinkansen87min

Travel times follow JR西日本「JRおでかけネット」の区間時刻表『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）を読み、あわせて今日この URL を開き直して、ひかり681号の新大阪・新神戸・岡山・三原の欄が同じことを確かめた。三原駅の『発』の時刻で数えた（JRの表は停車駅の発だけを載せる） (checked 2026-09-29). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Mihara City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

30.9km

尾道市, 東広島市, 世羅町, 竹原市

Mihara City isthis kind of town.

01On the shore of Sagishima (佐木島) in Mihara stands the Magai Wareishi Jizo (磨崖和霊石地蔵), carved into granite; an inscription copied onto another stone dates it to 1300. At high tide, water reaches the statue's shoulders.
02At Kui Inari Shrine, the old form of the Otō (御當) has been held at the autumn festival, with a big sea bream cut by knife alone. In Noji, Saizaki, there is a spring festival with danjiri decorated with seven futons, at a port where many houseboats once moored.
03There are also the stone walls of the keep base and boat-entry turret of Mihara Castle, said to have been built by Kobayakawa Takakage, the Momoyama-period gate of Sokoji Temple (宗光寺山門), and the national natural monuments Nutanishi's Ehime iris habitat, the Amphioxus habitat and Kui's rock sea.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mihara City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗