Toshima Village

Toshima's office is in Kagoshima city.

Toshima Village Office, Izumicho

Photo by Sakoppi (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tokara Pony

A small chestnut horse, 110-120 cm tall,is kept on Nakanoshima.

The prefectural board of education describes the Tokara Pony as a small chestnut horse 110-120 cm tall, designated a prefectural Natural Monument on September 7, 1953. Down to 32 horses in 1960, it was dispersed around the prefecture, and is still kept on Nakanoshima today.

110-120 cm tall
Prefectural Natural Monument (Sept. 7, 1953)
Down to 32 horses in 1960

02 ／ Boze of Akusekijima

On the last day of Obon, at dusk, Bozein masks of red clay and ink drive off evil.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs explains that on the 16th of the seventh lunar month, Akusekijima's Boze appear at dusk and drive off people's evil spirits. Three young men wear masks daubed with red clay and ink, with biro palm leaves wrapped on their bodies. It is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; the photo is a museum display.

16th of the 7th lunar month
National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (2017)
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2018)

03 ／ Megamiyama, Takarajima

Takarajima's breast-shaped Megamiyama figuresin one theory of the name Tokara.

The village website cites a theory that the name Tokara comes from the Ainu word "tokapu", linked to the breast-shaped Megamiyama on Takarajima, and says nothing is decisive. The mountain has long been revered, and is still said to be a mountain one must not enter.

Rises in northeast Takarajima
Several theories, none decisive
Said to be off-limits

Living here

The island villages are reached by village-run ferry.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

Toshima has no airport; the islands are reached by the village-run Ferry Toshima 2. It leaves Kagoshima Port and calls at each island from Kuchinoshima to Takarajima, as a rule twice a week, on days set by a monthly schedule. The village office is in Kagoshima, with a branch on Nakanoshima.

People living here: 740people
Area: 101.15km²
Households: 426households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 7 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —0 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.

Toshima Village in Japan29.838°N 129.853°E

Territory of Toshima Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

140.2km

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

Toshima Village isthis kind of town.

01Toshima Village Office is in Izumicho, Kagoshima, and moved its office to Kagoshima on April 1, 1956, as the islands' ties with the mainland grew closer
02Tamotoyuri, a lily found only on Kuchinoshima, is a prefectural Natural Monument under conservation. The Watase Line, dividing subtropical and temperate zones, runs between Akusekijima and Kodakarajima
03On Kodakarajima, people and goods were carried by small boat from ships offshore until a port was completed in 1990. Across the village, under the Sankai Ryugaku system since fiscal 1991, children are taken in with foster families

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Toshima Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗