37205 ／ かんおんじし
Kagawa PrefectureA sand coin, said to be drawn overnight.
Zenigata sand drawing01 ／ Hōnen'ike Dam
Built between 1926 and November 1929, this irrigation dam is gravity-type at both ends and a multiple-arch type in the middle, with five arches and six buttresses. It still waters about 500 hectares of farmland, and in 2006 became a national Important Cultural Property.
02 ／ Iriko of Ibuki Island
Ibuki Island, 10km offshore, boils and dries anchovies caught in the Hiuchi Sea right by the fishing grounds, earning it the name "island of iriko." Records of the Ibuki Fisheries Cooperative trace today's boat-owning producers to a lineage begun in 1862 by Kihachi Miyoshi (三好喜八). The catch is sorted by size into ōba, chūba, koba, and kaeri. The island also keeps a dialect said to echo Heian-era speech, and the traces of a debeya (出部屋), a building where women once gathered after childbirth.
03 ／ Takaya Shrine
One of Sanuki Province's 24 shrines listed in the Engishiki, it is also known as Inazumi Shrine. The torii gate at the head shrine, reached by climbing 270 stone steps, has in recent years come to be called the "Torii in the Sky." Below spreads the city of Kan'onji and the Seto Inland Sea.
Living here
On October 11, 2005, the old city of Kan'onji merged with the towns of Ōnohara and Toyohama to form today's city. It faces the Hiuchi Sea to the west and borders Tokushima and Ehime prefectures to the south along the Sanuki Mountains. Kan'onji Station on the JR Yosan Line is the city's main station; no Shinkansen line runs through it.
−3.3% since 2015
62,690 → 57,438
73.9km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.9 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-11 に新設合併（大野原町・豊浜町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
17.0km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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