Minamisatsuma City

A stone post holds up the gate's arms.

Ajisaka House, arm-bracket gate

01 ／ Masuyama Canal

Finished in 1768,the canal still waters Masuyama's paddies.

The Masuyama Canal was completed in the Meiwa era (1768). It runs north to south through Kaseda Fumoto from the Atago weir on the Kaseda River, and has watered the paddies of the Masuyama district. The view of crossing a stone bridge over the canal and passing through a samurai gate has, according to the city board of education's outline, not changed in 250 years.

Completed 1768
Bridges of 3-5 stone slabs, or girder bridges
2019: Kaseda Fumoto selected as a preservation district

02 ／ Manose River mouth

At the mouth of the Manose River,a broad tidal flat spreads out.

The national natural monument covering the hamabo colony and tidal-flat organisms at the Manose River mouth was designated on 6 February 2007. According to the prefectural museum, the mouth has a broad tidal flat, and hamabo stands over about 1 km. It is also among Japan's largest habitats of the fiddler crab Austruca lactea.

2007: National Natural Monument
Hamabo colony about 1 km long
Habitat of the fiddler crab Austruca lactea

03 ／ Kakoinohara site

Hearths of slabs set in a boat shapewere found at a hilltop site.

The Kakoinohara site is a multi-period site layered from the Incipient Jomon period to the medieval Omori Castle, and was designated a National Historic Site in 1997. Four stone-lined hearths were found, two of them boat-shaped hearths made of welded-tuff slabs, and the Satsuma volcanic ash that covered the site helped preserve it.

1997: National Historic Site
2 boat-shaped hearths (about 75 cm long)
Smoke-flue pits are thought to be for smoking food

Living here

It lies in the southwest of the Satsuma Peninsula.

about 30,000 people

City Hall stands in Kaseda, in the north, where the Manose River forms a plain. The city was formed in 2005 by merging Kaseda City with the towns of Kasasa, Oura, Bonotsu and Kinpo. There is no railway station in the city; the gateway is the Kaseda bus stop on the local bus line.

People living here: 32,887people
Area: 283.59km²
Households: 14,444households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,294yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 34 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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.

Minamisatsuma City in Japan31.417°N 130.323°E

Territory of Minamisatsuma City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

27.1km

南九州市, 枕崎市, 日置市, 鹿児島市

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

Minamisatsuma City isthis kind of town.

01The gate of the Former Ajisaka House in Kaseda Fumoto is an arm-bracket gate, with a stone back-post behind the main post holding up the arms. It became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.
02The Masuyama Canal, completed in 1768, runs through Kaseda Fumoto. The view of crossing a stone bridge over it and passing through a samurai gate is still at the heart of the old streets.
03At the mouth of the Manose River spread a tidal flat and a hamabo colony, a national natural monument. At the hilltop Kakoinohara site, boat-shaped hearths of the Incipient Jomon period were found.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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