46490 ／ きんこうちょう
Kagoshima Prefecture 肝属郡A riverbed runs flat as paving for 2 km.
Hanaze Pavement, Hanaze River01 ／ Torihama Tunnel
The Torihama plain lacked water, and the Kinko town cultural property map records that a weir was built on the Kamikawa River and a channel cut through bedrock. Narrow culverts (tunnels), 120 cm high and wide, were made in several places, and 18 cho of paddies came to be. It is a town-designated historic site.
02 ／ Ohnejime Telegraph Station Site
According to the cultural property map, the Ohama Telegraph Station was established at Ohama, Nejime, in August 1896 (Meiji 29). A submarine cable on a fixed military telegraph line was laid to Taiwan during the Sino-Japanese War, and in 1903 the station moved to Shiromoto and was renamed the Ohnejime Telegraph Station. It is a town-designated historic site.
03 ／ Kamikawa Ootaki Falls
The town writes that clear water flowing out of the Hangeseki Gorge threads between sheer cliffs to form Kamikawa Ootaki Falls, 25 m high and 30 m wide. It lies in a mountain fold of the Kunimi range on the Osumi Peninsula, which keeps its primeval forest.
Living here
Kinko has no railway; Kagoshima Kotsu local buses run from Kanoya to Ohnejime. In the timetable revised on October 1, 2026, which the town publishes, the fastest bus from Kanoya reaches Ohnejime in 39 minutes.
−12.4% since 2015
10,015 → 6,944
40.95km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
15.8 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
20.9km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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