Makurazaki City

A rock 42 m high towers offshore.

Tategami Rock, city symbol

01 ／ Michino Camphor Factory Ruins

Early Showa camphor-making was steamdistillation, as the ruins show.

In Sakurayama-kamicho stand the ruins of a camphor factory that operated in the early Showa era. A furnace, kettles and a cooling tank remain, showing that camphor was extracted by steam distillation. The work needed much water, which came by a stone culvert from a reservoir of about 500 square meters and turned a waterwheel before flowing to the tanks. The city designated the ruins a cultural property in 2021.

Operated in early Showa
Steam distillation
Reservoir of about 500 sq m
2021: city-designated

02 ／ Kago Gold Mine and the Oyamatsumi Shrine Mask

The mine's reputed discoverer is recordedas offering a mask he carved at 84.

At Oyamatsumi Shrine in Kanayama-cho, Makurazaki, is a mask recorded as carved and offered in July 1686, at the age of 84, by the man said to have discovered the Kago Gold Mine. Together with a drum donated by 63 people in 1692, it is a city-designated cultural property.

Jokyo 3 (1686)
Age 84
Drum of Genroku 5 (1692)
1998: city-designated

03 ／ Nanmeikan

A main hall modeled on a ship's anchorstands in a park on a low hill.

The Makurazaki Cultural Center Nanmeikan is a large wooden facility on a low hill in Katahirayama Park. As a town that grew around the fishing industry, its main hall was designed with a ship's anchor as its motif, and the outdoor plaza has wave-shaped benches. It was built with a 1987 Forestry Agency model wooden facility program.

Anchor motif
Wave-shaped benches
1987 Forestry Agency program

Living here

Nearly pentagonal, at the Satsuma Peninsula's southern end.

about 20,000 people

The city's official site says Makurazaki lies at the southern end of the Satsuma Peninsula, facing the East China Sea, in a nearly pentagonal shape. The city is 12 km east to west and 10 km north to south, with mountains running east and west from Mt. Kurata in the north, a central plain along the Kadowatari River basin, and a coastline centered on Makurazaki Port. The gateway is Makurazaki Station on the JR Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line.

People living here: 20,033people
Area: 74.78km²
Households: 9,455households
Rent (average for rentals): 31,483yen
Healthcare: 8 hospitals ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Makurazaki City in Japan31.273°N 130.297°E

Territory of Makurazaki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.7km

南さつま市, 南九州市

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

Makurazaki City isthis kind of town.

01Tategami Rock is the symbol of Makurazaki, a rock 42 m high that towers offshore; the city writes that it is also called the Candle Rock at the winter solstice, when it lines up with the beautiful sunset
02Bonito flake making is recorded as passing from Kishu to Makurazaki with Mori Yahei in 1707, and is said to have started there around then
03Miyako no Nishiki was moved from the Nagano mine to the Kago Gold Mine in 1705 and is said to have written his autobiographical novel Sute Obune there while in exile; it is a city-designated cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Makurazaki City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗