Kimotsuki Town

Abalone sealed a hull hole, it's said.

Kaizo Kannon

Photo by 肝付町役場 (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Upper Iwabuchi Tunnel

Over about 10 km, with hard rock in places,a channel was cut in about ten years.

On a waterway west of the Nikaido residence in Shintomi is the Upper Iwabuchi Tunnel. The works, led by the magistrate Shimazu Zusho Hisamichi, opened paddies worth 2,000 koku in Shintomi and Nozaki villages. Begun in 1661 and finished in 1671, they are marked nearby by the stone monument Takayama Shinmizo-ki.

1661-1671
Planned route about 10 km
Paddies worth 2,000 koku

02 ／ Tsukazaki Camphor Tree

A camphor tree, a national Natural Monument,grows on Tsukazaki Tumulus No. 1.

It grows on Tumulus No. 1 (a round mound) of the Tsukazaki Tumulus Group and is a national Natural Monument. Its estimated age is said to be 1,200 to over 1,300 years, with a height of 25 m and a trunk 14 m around. It is regarded as the sacred tree of Tsukazaki Otsuka Shrine, and a boardwalk has protected its roots since 2013.

25 m tall, 14 m trunk
Estimated 1,200 to over 1,300 years
1940: national Natural Monument

03 ／ Nagoshidon

Gods moved into masks receive a sacred danceon the Kishira shore.

The sacred dance of Hirata Shrine is offered on the Kishira shore on August 14 each year. At Nagoshidon, a summer purification festival, the deities are moved into three Sarutahiko masks and a dance is offered to the sea god, praying for the community's good fortune. Only three dances can now be passed on; a straw-rope crossing follows.

August 14 each year
Three masks
3 dances still passed on
Kimotsuki town-designated

Living here

Formed in 2005 by merging Takayama and Uchinoura.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

Kimotsuki was formed on July 1, 2005, when the towns of Takayama and Uchinoura merged. There is no railway station in the town, and the gateway is the town office. The main office is in Shintomi in former Takayama, with a general branch office in Uchinoura and a branch in Kishira.

People living here: 14,227people
Area: 308.04km²
Households: 6,393households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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 4 municipalities.

Kimotsuki Town in Japan31.344°N 130.945°E

Territory of Kimotsuki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

31.5km

鹿屋市, 錦江町, 東串良町, 南大隅町

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

Kimotsuki Town isthis kind of town.

01Kaizo Kannon is a camphor-wood statue recorded by a wooden tag under its base as made in 1681, and is a town-designated cultural property; a tradition says that when it was shipped by sea, an abalone sealed a hole in the hull, and people of the area did not eat abalone until very recently
02At the Yabusame of Shijukusho Shrine, the archer is one second-year junior-high student each year; the Nikaido Residence, said to date from about 1810, is a two-wing house with a staggered, hip-roofed plan and a national Important Cultural Property
03Uchinoura has a space observatory that the town describes as a pioneer of Japan's space development, and five bridges on Route 448 leading to it are named for planets; the Funama tree fern valley is a national Natural Monument as the northern limit of its native range

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kimotsuki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗