Tadotsu Town

This mansion is part of Japan Heritage.

Former Goda residence

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Birthplace of Shikoku's railway

The Sanuki Railway (讃岐鉄道)set off from Tadotsu.

On May 23, 1889, the Sanuki Railway opened a 16.4 km line from Marugame to Kotohira, starting from Tadotsu — said to mark the beginning of railways in Shikoku. JR Shikoku marked the 100th anniversary by preserving an 8620-class steam locomotive's driving wheel by the station, and the locomotive itself north of the station building. The Dosan Line's zero-kilometre post still stands at Tadotsu Station.

Opened 1889, starting point
Marugame-Kotohira, 16.4 km
Dosan Line's zero-kilometre post

02 ／ Sanagishima's dual graves

On Sanagishima's Nagasaki beach,round-stone graves remain.

In the Nagasaki (長崎) hamlet on Sanagishima (佐柳島), round beach stones piled into burial graves called sakibaka or maebaka still stand apart from hillside memorial graves called honbaka — remnants of a dual-grave custom found across the Shiwaku Islands. Nagasaki's graves are a Kagawa Prefecture Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

Dual-grave custom (burial & memorial graves)
Kagawa Prefecture Tangible Folk Cultural Property
Nagasaki hamlet, Sanagishima

03 ／ Takamijima's stone-walled village

On Takamijima's steep slopes,houses stand behind stone walls.

Takamijima (高見島), with little flat land, has houses stacked in terraces up its steep slopes behind dry stone walls. Most date from the Edo period and are said to show the skill of the Shiwaku carpenters (塩飽大工), shipwrights from the Shiwaku Islands. In recent years the island has also hosted works from the Setouchi Triennale art festival.

Edo-period stone-walled houses
Area 2.35 km²
Skill of the Shiwaku carpenters

Living here

The Yosan and Dosan lines part ways at Tadotsu.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Facing the Seto Inland Sea in western Kagawa, the town sits where the JR Yosan and Dosan lines diverge at Tadotsu Station — no shinkansen stops here. Tadotsu, in Nakatado District (仲多度郡), has never merged with a neighbouring municipality. The gateway is Tadotsu Station.

People living here: 22,445people
Area: 24.39km²
Households: 9,770households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,332yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 16 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 3 municipalities.

Tadotsu Town in Japan34.273°N 133.759°E

Territory of Tadotsu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.9km

善通寺市, 丸亀市, 三豊市

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

Tadotsu Town isthis kind of town.

01A port once busy with kitamae-bune (北前船) trading ships, Tadotsu was added in 2019 to the Japan Heritage story "Kitamae-bune Ports and Shipowners' Villages"; merchant mansions such as the former Goda residence (合田家住宅) still stand.
02In 1889 the Sanuki Railway opened from Tadotsu, said to mark the start of railways in Shikoku; the Dosan Line's zero-kilometre post still stands at Tadotsu Station.
03Offshore, Sanagishima keeps a dual-grave custom of separate burial and memorial graves, and Takamijima keeps its stone-walled houses. The town is also home to Doryu-ji (道隆寺), temple 77 of the Shikoku pilgrimage, the birthplace of Shorinji Kempo (少林寺拳法), and the former site of the Tadotsu Domain's residence.

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

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