China Town

Ages of wind and rain made the cliffs.

Taminamisaki, Yagunyabanta

Photo by Tabibito (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Shinjo Hanakubo Nyatu Tomb

A tomb with a torii-style stone gate and forecourtwas made using a hillside slope.

It is a horizontal-entrance tomb that uses a hillside slope, and the town site writes that its entrance, enclosed by a stone wall, has a torii-style stone gate and a forecourt. It is said to have been made for his wife and children by a castle-town samurai of Kagoshima. With Yononushi's tomb in Wadomari and others, it is a national Historic Site as the Okinoerabu Island Old Tombs.

Feb. 17, 2026: national Historic Site
Torii-style stone gate
Horizontal-entrance tomb with forecourt

02 ／ Jikkyonuho

Before tap water, the spring Ho met allthe hamlet's daily water needs.

Jikkyonuho is a spring whose name means "the river of Serikaku". The Ministry of the Environment writes that before tap water spread in the Showa 30s (1955 to 1964), it was the hamlet's only water source, supplying all its daily water and the paddies downstream. It was chosen as one of Japan's Heisei 100 Famous Waters, and is a town-designated tangible folk cultural property.

Serikaku spring
Heisei 100 Famous Waters
Town-designated tangible folk cultural property

03 ／ Sumiyoshi Kurago

Drawing water from about 30 m undergroundwas hard work for women and children.

Sumiyoshi Kurago is a place where a hole opened in part of a limestone cave, letting people draw groundwater. It was once the Sumiyoshi hamlet's water source, used for drawing water, washing and bathing. A prefectural Natural Monument, it stands beside a relocated thatched nine-pillar granary, which the town site calls very rare.

About 30 m deep
Prefectural Natural Monument
Nine-pillar granary: town-designated

Living here

The town's site says 1 hour 15 minutes by air from Kagoshima.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

China has no railway; the town's gateway is China Port. The town's transport page gives 16 hours 10 minutes by sea and 1 hour 15 minutes by air from Kagoshima (table as of March 1, 2022). Okinoerabu Airport is in Wadomari, not in the town.

People living here: 5,750people
Area: 53.3km²
Households: 2,659households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 1 municipalities.

China Town in Japan27.334°N 128.574°E

Territory of China Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.6km

和泊町

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

China Town isthis kind of town.

01Taminamisaki, called Yagunyabanta, has sheer cliffs 40 to 50 m above the sea that the town site calls magnificent, with strange rocks and fault lines nearby and a walking path
02The Okinoerabu Island Old Tombs became a national Historic Site on Feb. 17, 2026, made up of Shinjo Hanakubo Nyatu, Yaja Gajimaru and Aanimagayatoru tombs in China and Yononushi's tomb in Wadomari
03Sumiyoshi Shell Midden, a settlement site designated a national Historic Site in 2007, is now backfilled; the Kamihirakawa serpent dance, in which a giant serpent hangs from three poles, is a prefectural intangible folk cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

China Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗