Minami-Awaji City

Forty puppet troupes; one is left.

Awaji Ningyoza

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Awaji puppet theatre

Once more than forty troupes.Now a single one.

Awaji ningyo joruri (淡路人形浄瑠璃) is said to have begun in the late Muromachi period, when a puppeteer named Hyakudayu, who served Nishinomiya Shrine, came to the village of Sanjo and taught the handling of puppets. Under the protection of the Hachisuka lords of Tokushima, the island held more than forty troupes in the early eighteenth century. Only Awaji Ningyoza is still working.

Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 4 May 1976
More than forty troupes in the early eighteenth century
Only Awaji Ningyoza still performs

02 ／ Whirlpools

The tide runs at 30 km/h.The whirls reach 30 metres.

In the Naruto strait, on the boundary with Tokushima, the tide turns about every six hours, and whirlpools form as water runs from the higher sea to the lower. In spring, when the range between high and low is greatest, the current reaches 30 kilometres an hour and the whirls 30 metres across. Sightseeing boats leave from Fukura bay and Ibi port.

The tide turns about every six hours
In spring the current reaches 30 km/h
The whirls reach 30 metres across

03 ／ Three crops a year

On the same ground,three crops a year.

On the Mihara plain, along the Mihara river, good land and climate together with skilled farming allow three crops a year from the same ground. Awaji onions, sweet and soft, come from the third largest producing area in Japan after Hokkaido and Saga. Lettuce, Chinese cabbage and cabbage are shipped to Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto the same day.

Three crops a year on the Mihara plain
Onions: third after Hokkaido and Saga
Vegetables shipped to the Kansai cities the same day

Living here

Highway buses run to Riku-no-Minato Seidan.

about 40,000 people

Awaji Island has no railway, and buses to Kobe, Osaka and Shikoku gather at Riku-no-Minato Seidan (陸の港西淡), the transport hub of the city. The figures the city publishes, about 60 minutes to Kobe and 90 to Osaka, are for driving the expressway, so this guide does not give them as journey times. This is the southernmost city in Hyogo; in the Kii channel lies Nushima, about 10 kilometres around, with some 400 people.

People living here: 44,137people
Area: 229.01km²
Households: 17,047households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,792yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 39 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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 1 municipalities.

Minami-Awaji City in Japan34.294°N 134.780°E

Territory of Minami-Awaji City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.3km

洲本市

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

Minami-Awaji City isthis kind of town.

01More than forty puppet troupes in the eighteenth century; only Awaji Ningyoza is left
02In the Naruto strait the tide turns every six hours; whirls reach 30 metres in spring
03The Mihara plain takes three crops a year, and onions rank third in the country

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Minami-Awaji City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗