Aira City

Once a prefectural gate, now a school's.

Shigetomi School gate

01 ／ Spider fighting

The spiders that foughtare returned to where they were found.

Kajiki's spider fighting is said to have begun when Shimazu Yoshihiro, in camp during the Bunroku-Keicho campaigns, gathered female golden orb spiders and had them fight to cheer his soldiers. Run by the Spider Fighting Preservation Society, founded in 1991, it is held on the third Sunday of June each year, and in 2018 it was registered as a UNESCO Project Future Heritage.

Every year, third Sunday of June
2018: registered as a UNESCO Future Heritage project
Spiders are returned to their habitat

02 ／ Tatsumonji-zaka

The road was built in 1635;the stones were laid 100 years later.

Tatsumonji-zaka is part of the Okuchi road, built in the 12th year of Kanei (1635), with stones laid a hundred years later. The stones were cut from a nearby hill. The slope is said to have run over 1,500 m, and about 500 m survives as it was. It is a National Historic Site.

Built in 1635 (Kanei 12)
Paved with stone 100 years later
About 500 m survives as it was

03 ／ Moriyama House

A casters' house dealing in pots and kettlesstill bears its shop name on the storehouse roof.

The Moriyama family were wealthy merchants of Kajiki who prospered in iron casting from the Edo to the Meiji era, and in the late Edo period they also took part in casting cannon at the Shuseikan. They also made pans for brown sugar making in Amami and Okinawa. The old workshop is said to have been moved from a first-phase Shuseikan building. The main house and storehouse date from 1904.

Main house and storehouse built in 1904
Shop name on the storehouse roof
Registered Tangible Cultural Property

Living here

About 25 minutes from Kagoshima-Chuo to Chosa Station.

about 80,000 people

The station nearest to City Hall is Chosa Station on the Nippo Line, about 25 minutes from Kagoshima-Chuo Station and about a 10-minute walk from City Hall. The city was formed in 2010 by the merger of Kajiki Town, Aira Town and Kamo Town, and is part of the Sakurajima-Kinkowan Geopark.

People living here: 76,348people
Area: 231.25km²
Households: 32,850households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,064yen
Healthcare: 12 hospitals ／ 65 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —24 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.

Aira City in Japan31.728°N 130.628°E

Territory of Aira City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

23.0km

霧島市, 薩摩川内市, 鹿児島市

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

Aira City isthis kind of town.

01The gate of Shigetomi Elementary School is the front gate of the former Kagoshima Prefectural Office, built after the Satsuma Rebellion and moved here in 1926. It is a nationally registered cultural property.
02Kajiki's spider fighting is an event said to have begun when female golden orb spiders were made to fight in camp. Tatsumonji-zaka is a National Historic Site road built in 1635 and paved with stone 100 years later.
03The Moriyama House in Kajiki was home to casters of pots and kettles who also took part in casting cannon at the Shuseikan in the late Edo period.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Aira City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗