Miyoshi City

Recorded: a vow to build a temple.

Teramachi-haiji, Mitani-dera?

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Ino Mononokeroku (稲生物怪録)

A boy is said to have endured30 days of strange events, in Miyoshi.

A ghost story set in Miyoshi in Kan'en 2 (1749). Ino Budayu (1734–1803), a real Hiroshima domain samurai, is said to have lived through it as the boy Heitaro. Four related picture scrolls and manuscripts are city-designated Important Cultural Properties.

Set in Miyoshi, Kan'en 2 (1749)
Strange events said to last 30 days
Four related scrolls and manuscripts are city-designated Important Cultural Properties

02 ／ Yadani Kofun (矢谷古墳)

From a nearby grave cameglass beads made in the Roman Empire.

Yadani Kofun in Higashisakaya is a burial mound shaped like two four-cornered projecting mounds (yotsusumi-toshutsu-gata funkyubo) joined together, 18.5 m long. Eleven burial facilities were found. From a nearby grave of the same period came three small glass beads made in the Roman Empire.

18.5 m long
11 burial facilities
Three Roman Empire glass beads from a nearby grave
National Historic Site (designated 1979)

03 ／ Miyoshi Cormorant Fishing (三次の鵜飼)

A hand rope of about 7 mhandles six or seven cormorants.

It takes place on summer nights at Tokaichi Shinsui Park on the Umaarai River (馬洗川). Two people ride each boat, the cormorant handler and the steersman, and the handler, in eboshi hat and straw skirt, works the hand rope. In 2015 the prefecture designated the "Miyoshi cormorant fishing folk technique" an Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Hand rope about 7 m
Handler and steersman ride each boat
Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 2015)

Living here

Where three rivers meet, a sea of fog forms in the basin.

about 50,000 people

The city covers 778.18 km² (city website). The tourism association says the basin, ringed by mountains where three rivers join, produces a "sea of fog" from autumn to early spring. Joseidaki (常清滝) in Sakugi falls in three tiers, 126 m in all. Three lines of kagura are handed down: Iwami, Bingo and Hiba Kojin.

People living here: 50,681people
Area: 778.18km²
Households: 21,377households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,321yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 52 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-04-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —24 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.

Miyoshi City in Japan34.806°N 132.852°E

to OsakaHighway bus286min

Travel times follow JRバス中国（中国JRバス）公式「路線詳細大阪⇔三次・浜田・益田浜田道エクスプレス」（https://www.chugoku-jrbus.co.jp/express/detail/0475/ ・2026-09-29 に開いて確認）の時刻表。浜田道エクスプレス101号：大阪駅JR高速バスターミナル 9:20発 → 三次駅 14:06着（→ 千代田インター 14:52 → 大朝インター 15:06 → … → 浜田駅 15:55 → 益田駅前 16:50）。9:20→14:06＝4時間46分＝286分。大阪駅から三次駅まで乗り換えなし（昼行・指定席・予約必要・JRバス中国の単独運行） (checked 2026-09-29). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Miyoshi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

44.3km

Hiroshima Prefecture: 庄原市, 安芸高田市, 世羅町, 東広島市, 府中市
Shimane Prefecture: 飯南町, 邑南町, 美郷町

Miyoshi City isthis kind of town.

01The Teramachi-haiji ruins (寺町廃寺跡) in Mukaieda are what remains of an ancient provincial temple thought to have been built in the late Asuka period and to have lasted into the Heian period, presumed to be the Mitani-dera (三谷寺) recorded in the Nihon Ryoiki (日本霊異記). That book records that a district chief of Mitani in Bingo vowed before leaving for war to build a temple, returned home, and built Mitani-dera.
02Miyoshi, the setting of the Ino Mononokeroku, has Yadani Kofun, a mound shaped like two four-cornered projecting mounds joined together, and Miyoshi cormorant fishing, a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
03There are also Unpekikyo (運甓居), the residence of the Miyoshi magistrate Rai Kyohei, named after a calligraphy he hung there, Joseidaki in Sakugi, and kagura in three lines, Iwami, Bingo and Hiba Kojin, each district holding a small piece of history.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miyoshi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗