Akune City

A torii, donated in thanks for shochu.

Stone torii, Minamikata Shrine

Photo by Mizushimasea (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kagura of Haru Minamikata Shrine

Danced every eight years at the festival,with a demon mask from the Horeki era.

At Minamikata Shrine (Suwa Shrine) in the Haru district, the kagura is danced at the festival held every eight years. Said to belong to the Izumo style of kagura, it has eight dances, from Chihari to the demon dance. The demon-dance mask dates from the Horeki era (1751-1764), and it is said to "laugh" when the dance peaks.

Festival every 8 years
Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Demon mask from the Horeki era (1751-1764)

02 ／ Goshikihama and Hikarize

Chert washed by the wavesforms a pebble beach of many colors.

Chert exposed on the reef called Hikarize and along the shore is washed by the waves and becomes a pebble beach of chert in many colors. The prefecture has designated Hikarize and Goshikihama a Natural Monument, and radiolarian fossils of the Late Triassic and Middle Jurassic have been reported from the chert of Goshikihama.

Prefectural Natural Monument
Chert pebble beach
Late Triassic and Middle Jurassic radiolarian fossils

03 ／ Matsuki Koan Family House

The house where the Father of Telegraphyspent his childhood stands in Wakimoto.

Matsuki Koan (Terajima Munenori) is a native of Akune whom the city calls the "Father of Electric Telegraphy." The house where he spent his childhood was built in the Tenpo era and is a city-designated historic site, valued for showing the local way of life of its time. In front of the house, Terajima, the island behind his new name, can be seen.

City-designated historic site
Built in the Tenpo era
Wakimoto

Living here

The gateway is Akune Station, on the Hisatsu Orange Railway.

about 20,000 people

The city has four stations on the Hisatsu Orange Railway: Akune, Origuchi, Ushinohama and Satsuma Ohkawa. The tourism site lists the Akune Station building as a sightseeing spot, the Nigiwai Koryukan. The Kyushu Shinkansen stations are in the neighboring cities of Izumi and Satsumasendai.

People living here: 19,270people
Area: 134.28km²
Households: 8,617households
Rent (average for rentals): 30,330yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 2 municipalities.

Akune City in Japan32.014°N 130.193°E

Territory of Akune City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.3km

出水市, 薩摩川内市

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

Akune City isthis kind of town.

01The city writes that the stone torii of Minamikata Shrine in Haru was donated by Origuchi Ihei Shigeyoshi in thanks for a successful shochu brewing; it is a city-designated tangible cultural property
02Ushinohama coast, a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty, looks out toward the Koshikijima islands, and the tourism site writes that a torii on Suzumese was built in 1964 with private funds
03The Hamajincho at the Haru lagoon site is a prefectural Natural Monument, and a Portuguese cannon found at Akune Beach is a prefectural cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Akune City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗