Miki Town

Tosan-Fuji rises at the heart of town.

Mt. Shirayama

Photo by Aikaleido (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Rare Sugars

The enzyme behind rare sugarswas found in this soil.

In 1991, a microbe found in the soil at Kagawa University's Faculty of Agriculture here was shown to carry an enzyme that turns fructose into rare sugars. By 2002 a production route (Izumoring) was complete, and in 2007 the Miki Rare Sugar Research and Training Center opened. Of the 50-plus rare sugars known in nature, all can now be produced with this technology.

50-plus kinds
Discovered in 1991
Research center opened in 2007

02 ／ Rainbow Falls

When sunlight strikes the spray,a rainbow forms over the pool.

On the Komino River, a tributary of the Koto River, two falls called Odaki and Medaki drop side by side. Named Niji-no-taki ("Rainbow Falls," 虹の滝) because sunlight through the spray forms a rainbow, they were designated a Kagawa Prefecture Natural Monument in 1976. Odaki drops 8 m, Medaki 11 m. Local legend says Kobo Daishi turned a white snake from a pond into the rainbow.

Designated in 1976
Odaki 8 m, Medaki 11 m
Komino district

03 ／ Medical School and Hospital

Kagawa's only medical schoolstands here, in Ikedo.

Kagawa Medical University opened in 1978 and merged with Kagawa University in 2003; its medical school sits in Ikedo, Miki. The teaching hospital grew from 331 beds at its 1983 opening to 613 today, and as the prefecture's only hospital with a medical school, it runs everything from emergency care to robotic surgery.

Founded in 1978
613 beds
Prefecture's only medical school

Living here

The Kotoden Nagao Line runs through town.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

Miki has never merged with another municipality, and borders Takamatsu to the east. Its gateway is Hiragi Station on the Kotoden Nagao Line; the next stop, Nogakubu-mae ("Faculty of Agriculture," 農学部前), serves Kagawa University's agriculture campus. Ikedo is home to Kagawa University Hospital, the prefecture's only hospital with a medical school, supporting regional care.

People living here: 26,878people
Area: 75.78km²
Households: 10,889households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,387yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 18 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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 3 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Miki Town in Japan34.268°N 134.134°E

Territory of Miki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.5km

Kagawa Prefecture: 高松市, さぬき市
Tokushima Prefecture: 美馬市

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

Miki Town isthis kind of town.

01Mt. Shirayama, 203 m high, is one of the Seven Fujis of Sanuki and is also called Tosan-Fuji
02The rare sugars pioneered at Kagawa University's Faculty of Agriculture grew from a 1991 enzyme discovery to the 2007 opening of the Miki Rare Sugar Research and Training Center, into a technology that can now produce all 50-plus rare sugars found in nature
03In the Komino district, Niji-no-taki ("Rainbow Falls") takes its name from the rainbow that forms in its spray; its Odaki and Medaki falls were designated a Kagawa Prefecture Natural Monument in 1976

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗