Manno Town

A rain-praying dance, inscribed by UNESCO.

Ayako Dance of Samon

Photo by Mannoieasystem (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Manno Pond

The court's own envoy couldn't fix it —Kūkai finished it in under 3 months.

Manno Pond breached in 818, and even the court's own pond-building envoy could not repair it. In 821, on the governor's recommendation, the monk Kūkai took charge, and people flocked to help. Using engineering he had learned in Tang China, he completed the huge pond in under three months. Every June, its "yurunuki" sluice-opening still sends water to the fields, and in 2016 the pond was named a World Heritage Irrigation Structure.

02 ／ Sunflowers

A million sunflowers bloom,and their seeds become oil.

From late June to mid-July, about a million sunflowers bloom across town, centered on the Nakayama and Hoyama fields. A sunflower festival is held in July, and the town also produces "Manno Sunflower Oil" from its sunflowers for cooking. The Hoyama field is a 5-minute walk from JR Shioiri Station.

03 ／ Mount Daisen

At 1,042.71m, a shrine tothe rain god sits at the summit.

Mount Daisen (Daisenzan), which the town calls the second-highest peak of the Sanuki Mountains, is crowned by Daisen Shrine, revered as a god of rain-praying and safe childbirth. On the Sunday closest to the 14th day of the sixth lunar month, local children perform the Daisen Nenbutsu Dance there.

Living here

The only trains here are JR Dosan Line locals.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Manno was formed in 2006 by the merger of Kotonami, Manno, and Chunan towns (琴南町・満濃町・仲南町). It borders the Marugame Plain to the north and the Sanuki Mountains and Tokushima Prefecture to the south, with about 900 irrigation ponds dotting its western hills. The only trains are local JR Dosan Line services — no shinkansen or limited express stops here. The town's gateway is Shioiri Station.

People living here: 17,401people
Area: 194.45km²
Households: 6,531households
Rent (average for rentals): 33,176yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 14 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Manno Town in Japan34.192°N 133.841°E

Territory of Manno Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.0km

Kagawa Prefecture: 綾川町, 三豊市, 丸亀市, 琴平町, 高松市, 善通寺市
Tokushima Prefecture: 三好市, 東みよし町, 美馬市

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

Manno Town isthis kind of town.

01The Ayako Dance of Samon (佐文の綾子踊), a rain-praying dance performed every other year, has been handed down since the Edo period, and in 2022 was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list as part of "Furyu-odori" — the first such inscription in Shikoku.
02Manno Pond was rebuilt in just under three months in 821 by the monk Kūkai, serving as chief engineer, and was named a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2016. In summer, about a million sunflowers bloom in the Nakayama and Hoyama fields, their seeds pressed into cooking oil.
03At the summit of Mount Daisen (1,042.71m) in the south stands Daisen Shrine, where local children perform the Daisen Nenbutsu Dance on the lunar sixth month. The town is also home to the Sanuki Mannō National Government Park and the Manno Astronomical Observatory.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Manno Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗