Kikai Town

Coral hedges, said to block typhoons.

Coral stone walls, Aden

Photo by tsuda (CC BY-SA 2.0)

01 ／ Sueyoshi Shrine Boulder

A boulder that may have fallen from the cliffseems to sit on a pedestal.

The huge coral boulder on the approach to Sueyoshi Shrine in Aden, according to town materials, is far older than the rock beneath it and may have fallen from the 200 m cliff behind. It seems to sit on a base because only the rock under it was left unmelted. It is an object of faith for safe childbirth and children's growth.

200 m cliff behind
Only the base seems left unmelted
Faith for safe birth and children's growth

02 ／ Araki Coast Plant Communities

From wave-sprayed rock to the plateau,bands of vegetation can be seen.

On the Araki coast, communities of dwarf shrubs such as Osteomeles spread from the wave-sprayed zone up to about 5 m above sea level, with shrub woodland above and trees near the plateau. The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that the banded distribution is well seen; it became a national Natural Monument in 2014. The town enacted a nature conservation ordinance in 1973, the earliest in the prefecture.

Dwarf shrub communities up to about 5 m
2014: national Natural Monument
1973: nature conservation ordinance

03 ／ Karimata Spring

Clear water is said to have welled upwhere Tametomo pulled out his arrow.

At Karimata Spring in Onotsu, legend says that Minamoto no Tametomo, on his way to the Ryukyus, shot a karimata arrow from off Kikai Island, landed and pulled it out, and clear water welled up from the mark. The Ministry of the Environment's list of springs records that the legend is handed down.

Onotsu, Kikai
Minamoto no Tametomo legend
Listed in the Ministry of the Environment's spring list

Living here

A flight of about 1 hour 10 minutes from Kagoshima.

about 7,000 people
Rural district town

Kikai has no railway; its gateway is Kikai Airport. The town says a direct flight takes about 1 hour 10 minutes from Kagoshima and about 15 minutes from Amami Oshima.

People living here: 6,629people
Area: 56.82km²
Households: 3,258households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 0 municipalities.

Kikai Town in Japan28.317°N 129.940°E

Territory of Kikai Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.6km

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

Kikai Town isthis kind of town.

01Aden hamlet keeps many stone walls said to have been made of coral as hedges against typhoons, and the town writes that, with no habu snakes on Kikai Island, they are well preserved
02Hyakunodai, in the middle of the island, is an uplifted coral-reef highland of 203 m and about 700 hectares, which the town writes is one of the Ten Views of Amami
03Gusuku site is where a large village stood 400 to 1,200 years ago, and the town writes that almost all the pottery found there had been brought from outside the island

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kikai Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗