Ichikikushikino City

Big paper tigers and oxen lined up.

Ichiki Tanabata Odori, Osato

01 ／ Taro Taro Festival

The boat song may not be sungoutside the festival days.

The Taro Taro Festival at Hashimazaki Shrine is a prefecture-designated intangible folk cultural property. In the boat-owners' blessing, model boats from the shrine are rocked as they are carried around the grounds, and a boat song is sung. In the field-plowing blessing, Techo and Taro lead a five-year-old in a straw cape and hat to re-enact plowing, followed by an exchange with an ox.

Prefecture-designated intangible folk cultural property
Boat-owners' blessing and field-plowing blessing
Boat song only on festival days

02 ／ Uggandon no Mori

Through postwar city planning,an inner-god shrine and three big trees remained.

This is a city-designated natural monument in Nakao-cho. Uggan-saa (the inner god) of the Tomishuku family, from the domain era, is enshrined here. Postwar city planning set the plot aside as Uggandon no Mori, leaving the inner-god shrine and three big trees: a muku, an enoki and a tabu.

City-designated natural monument
Nakao-cho
Three big trees: muku, enoki, tabu

03 ／ Nakahara Drainage Ditch

After the Nakahara plateau kept crumbling,the domain built a drainage ditch itself.

This is a city-designated historic site in Nakahara, Osato. The city writes that the Shirasu plateau at Nakahara kept collapsing, harming residents' lives and the Izumi road used for the alternate-attendance journeys, so the ditch was built as a direct domain project and completed in 1852 (Kaei 5).

Completed in 1852 (Kaei 5)
Direct domain project
City-designated historic site

Living here

Three JR Kagoshima Main Line stations in the city.

about 30,000 people

The city has three JR stations, Kushikino, Kamimuragakuenmae and Ichiki, all on the Kagoshima Main Line. The city says it is about 15 minutes by car from Sendai Station and about 30 minutes from Kagoshima city on the Minami-Kyushu Nishimawari Expressway. The gateway is Kushikino Station.

People living here: 27,490people
Area: 112.3km²
Households: 11,974households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,447yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 26 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Ichikikushikino City in Japan31.715°N 130.272°E

Territory of Ichikikushikino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.7km

薩摩川内市, 日置市

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

Ichikikushikino City isthis kind of town.

01The Ichiki Tanabata Odori of Osato is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; the national description records a procession of large papier-mache deer, tigers, oxen and cranes, a main taiko dance and a closing naginata dance, and the city says the taiko dance is now the center of the offering
02Besides the Taro Taro Festival at Hashimazaki Shrine, the prefecture designates the Gaungaun Festival, a spring rice-planting rite in which, the city writes, a figure called Techo mimes plowing with a big forked branch to pray for a good harvest
03Hashima is a city-designated historic site as the place from which fifteen young Satsuma samurai sailed to Europe in 1865, and the city names Terushima as the birthplace of Satsuma ware

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