Higashikushira Town

In the chamber lay a boat-shaped coffin.

Tojin Otsuka Kofun, Tojin tombs

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Round tombs of Tojin

From the ditch floor of Tomb 19,7 stem cups and 5 bowls came out.

Even the small round tombs that make up most of the cluster can have a ditch around them. At Tomb 19, a ditch with an outer diameter of about 20m was found. Red pigment was also detected near the cups and bowls from its southwest floor, and they may have been offerings or ritual objects.

Tomb 19 ditch: outer diameter about 20m
7 stem cups and 5 bowls unearthed
Red pigment also detected

02 ／ Lupin on Kashiwabara Coast

Once a green manure,lupin has bloomed again on the coast.

Lupin, the town flower, was grown along the coast as green manure until around 1965. Pine planting and chemical fertilizer made it vanish for a time, but efforts led by the town's chamber of commerce brought it back, and it blooms in April. Black pine woods continue behind the shore.

Grown as green manure until around 1965
Japanese name Noborifuji; blooms in April
Pine woods: windbreak, tide and sand-drift protection

03 ／ Sand dune of Tomb 1

The base of Tomb 1's mound seemsto be carved out of a sand dune.

The tomb cluster stands on the Otsuka sandbar, an old dune belt formed before the late Jomon period. A survey the town reported in 2024 found the lower mound was cut from sand layers, and the tomb is thought to have looked two-toned when built. Layers of volcanic ash, murasaki-kora and ao-kora (the latter from Mount Kaimon), lie on the sandbar.

Otsuka sandbar formed 5,700 to 5,500 years ago
Murasaki-kora: ash from 874
Ao-kora: ash from the late 7th century

Living here

The town office is about 1 hr 20 min by car from Kagoshima Airport.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The town has never merged with another, and became a town in October 1932. There is no railway station in town; the town's official guide lists the airport shuttle bus, Kagoshima Kotsu local buses, and the direct bus between Kagoshima-Chuo Station and Kanoya. It tells readers to check times with the Kanoya office of Kagoshima Kotsu.

People living here: 6,237people
Area: 27.85km²
Households: 2,772households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 8 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 3 municipalities.

Higashikushira Town in Japan31.386°N 130.973°E

Territory of Higashikushira Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.7km

鹿屋市, 肝付町, 大崎町

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

Higashikushira Town isthis kind of town.

01Tojin Otsuka Kofun is Tomb 1 of the Tojin tomb cluster. Its stone chamber at the rear of the mound was painted red inside and held a boat-shaped stone coffin and a suit of armor called tanko (Kagoshima Prefectural Board of Education).
02The Tojin tomb cluster stands on a sand dune near the mouth of the Kimotsuki River and became a National Historic Site in 1934. At Tomb 19, 7 stem cups and 5 bowls came out of the ditch floor.
03Lupin, the town flower of Kashiwabara Coast, was grown as green manure until around 1965. The lower mound of Tomb 1 seems to be carved from sand layers, and layers of volcanic ash lie there.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Higashikushira Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗