Takehara City

A stage-built hall, in view across town.

Fumeikaku, Saihoji Temple

Photo by As6022014 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ The Korean Bell of Shorenji Temple (照蓮寺の高麗鐘)

The bell bearing an inscription of 963is among Japan's oldest Goryeo bells.

The bronze bell of Shorenji Temple was made on the Korean peninsula in the Goryeo period. Its relief inscription shows it was cast in the 4th year of Junpung (963), and it is among the oldest Goryeo bells in Japan. The inscription suggests it once stood at Seowon in Yeongam County, South Jeolla.

Inscription of the 4th year of Junpung (963)
Among the oldest Goryeo bells in Japan
Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Takehara Shoin (竹原書院)

A private school for merchants' sonsis now the city library.

In 1793 Rai Shunsui and others opened Takehara Shoin (竹原書院), a private school for the sons of merchant families. It burned down in 1813 and was not rebuilt; in 1910 local citizens took it up again as library work, and today it is the Takehara Shoin Municipal Library.

Opened as a private school in 1793
Destroyed by fire in 1813
Continued as library work in 1910

03 ／ Tadanoumi Gion Festival Mikoshi Ritual (忠海町祇園祭みこし行事)

Stuffed monkeys on the happi coats:take one, and a year without illness.

At the festival of the Gion shrine within Tadanoumi Hachiman Shrine (忠海開発八幡神社), men who turn 20 that year serve as the mikoshi bearers. They wear stuffed monkeys of various sizes on the backs of their happi coats, and whoever takes one is said to stay healthy for a year. The distinctive way of turning the mikoshi is a Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Men turning 20 that year bear the mikoshi
Taking a stuffed monkey: a year of good health
Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property (1984)

Living here

Boats leave from Takehara Port and Tadanoumi Port to the islands.

about 20,000 people

From Takehara Port, ferries run to Osakikamijima and Osakishimojima; from Tadanoumi Port, to Okunoshima (大久野島) and Omishima. In the Edo period it was a port where Kitamae-bune ships bought salt from the irihama salt pans, and the Takehara district is an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings and a component of the Japan Heritage "Kitamae-bune Ports of Call and Shipowners' Villages." The Shunpukan Rai House and the Fukkokan Rai House are Important Cultural Properties, both closed to visitors.

People living here: 23,993people
Area: 118.23km²
Households: 10,682households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,628yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 2 municipalities.

Takehara City in Japan34.342°N 132.907°E

Territory of Takehara City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.9km

東広島市, 三原市

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

Takehara City isthis kind of town.

01Fumeikaku at Saihoji Temple in Takehara is a stage-built hall put up in 1758. Said to imitate Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, it can be seen from anywhere in town and matters to the townscape.
02Takehara flourished in the Edo period on salt made in irihama salt pans, and it was a port where Kitamae-bune ships bought salt. The Takehara district was selected in 1982 as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and in 2019 the city was added as a Japan Heritage municipality for the Kitamae-bune story.
03The sea within 1,500 m of Shirahana Rock at the southern tip of Abashima Island (阿波島) is the National Natural Monument "Sunameri Kujira Kaiyu Kaimen" (finless porpoise waters). The city also has Okunoshima, the Taketsuru Sake Brewery, and the Yusaka Onsen hot springs along the Kamo River.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takehara City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗