Izumi City

School gate, once a lord's lodging gate.

Izumi Okariya Gate, school gate

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tatebaba in Izumi Fumoto

River-stone walls and hedges lineboth sides of the Izumi Fumoto streets.

Izumi Fumoto was selected as a nationally Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 1995 (Heisei 7). The city says that, about 400 years ago, the hills were leveled over some 30 years and walls of river stones were built, according to tradition. Tatebaba is a street in this district. The city adds that the other fumoto in the domain are said to have followed Izumi's.

About 44 hectares
Selected as a preservation district in 1995
About 30 years of leveling (city)

02 ／ Arasaki Shinchi Stone Reclamation Facilities

At the mouth of the Euchi River,a stone sluice gate was built to stop the tide.

Arasaki Shinchi was a land reclamation carried out by the Satsuma domain at Izumi. The Shimazu Sluice Gate site is the remains of a stone sluice gate that stopped the tide at the mouth of the Euchi River. A university research report says the work ran from 1857 to 1866 and opened about 198 hectares. The facilities are three sites: two sluice gate sites and a river embankment.

Completed 1866
About 198 hectares (research report)
JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage (FY2023)

03 ／ Noma Checkpoint Site

The site of a checkpoint guarding Satsuma's northis a city-designated historic site.

The Noma Checkpoint site is designated a city historic site together with an old well. The city says its predecessor, the Hiramatsu guardpost, is said to have been set up around the Battle of Sekigahara, and that the domain tightened its controls there as a guard on Satsuma's northern edge.

Around the Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
City-designated historic site

Living here

235 minutes at the fastest, Shin-Osaka to Izumi.

about 50,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

Izumi Station is a Kyushu Shinkansen station in Izumi. In JR West's timetable (October 2026), Sakura 743 leaves Shin-Osaka at 6:50 and leaves Izumi at 10:45.

People living here: 51,994people
Area: 329.98km²
Households: 22,796households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,662yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 41 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-13 に新設合併（野田町・高尾野町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —17 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Izumi City in Japan32.090°N 130.353°E

to OsakaSanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen235min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表『東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/1796 。ページの日付は2026年10月7日〈水〉。保存：$SP/kagoshima-izumi/jr1796.html、読む道具：$SP/kagoshima-prep/jr-timetable-parse.py）。『新大阪発』の行と『出水発』の行を機械で突き合わせると、新大阪から出水へ乗り換えなしで停まる列車は『さくら』の7本：743号（新大阪6:50発→出水10:45発＝235分）・745号（8:00→11:55＝235分）・749号（9:20→13:19＝239分）・753号（11:20→15:19＝239分）・761号（15:23→19:18＝235分）・763号（16:23→20:22＝239分）・765号（17:20→21:22＝242分）。最短は743号・745号・761号の235分（『発』で数えた値）。列車ページで『運転日毎日運転』『新大阪発』『出水着・発』を確かめた：https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/316081?date=20261007 （さくら743号鹿児島中央行・毎日運転・新大阪 06:50 発・出水 10:44 着 10:45 発）と https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/316181?date=20261007 （さくら761号・毎日運転・新大阪 15:23 発・出水 19:17 着 19:18 発）。『運転日注意』の欄は7本とも空 (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Izumi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.9km

Kagoshima Prefecture: 阿久根市, さつま町, 伊佐市, 薩摩川内市
Kumamoto Prefecture: 水俣市

Izumi City isthis kind of town.

01The Izumi Okariya Gate is a prefecturally designated Tangible Cultural Property (structure). The city says the site of today's Izumi Elementary School, across Kariya Baba street, was the okariya, a lodging for the lord on his tours of the region, and that the present school gate is its gate. It is said that in the early Edo period Shimazu Yoshihiro, hoping to retire in Izumi, had a gate from Chosa moved here.
02Izumi Fumoto was certified in 2019 as part of the Japan Heritage story "Satsuma Samurai Towns: Walking the Fumoto Samurai Residences." The residences open to visitors are the Takezoe and Saisho houses.
03"The cranes of Kagoshima Prefecture and their arrival grounds," which include the Izumi plain, are a national Special Natural Monument. In fiscal 2023 the Arasaki Shinchi stone reclamation facilities were chosen as a JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Izumi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗