Yusui Town

Twin arches carry water under a station.

Maruike Yusui culvert

Photo by あじさか (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kurino-cho Hanashobu Natural Southern Limit Zone

As Japanese silver grass spread and iris dwindled,cutting began with the Agency's permission.

Mikazuki Pond, a national Natural Monument, is in Koba. The town's site (updated June 2023) says wild iris has declined as silver grass has spread, so the grass is cut in late June and mid-October with permission from the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Flowering is usually late May to June, peaking in mid-June.

National Natural Monument (designated 1938)
Flowering usually late May to June
Grass cut in late June and mid-October

02 ／ Takenaka Pond and the Tsutsuhano Irrigation Channel

The channel fed by Takenaka Pondhas been kept up by shared community work.

Takenaka Pond's spring yields 93,000 tonnes a day, and the town says its source is thought to lie in the Kirishima mountains because its composition is close to that of Shinyu. The Tsutsuhano irrigation channel it feeds was chosen as one of Japan's 100 Selected Irrigation Channels in fiscal 2005 and still supplies farmland.

93,000 tonnes a day
100 Selected Irrigation Channels (fiscal 2005)
Source thought to lie in the Kirishima mountains

03 ／ Stone Storehouse and Preserved Locomotive at Yoshimatsu Station

A stone storehouse beside Yoshimatsu Stationis on a METI list of modernization heritage.

The list of component heritage sites of a METI modernization industrial heritage group on southern Kyushu's industry, power and freight transport includes, under the Hisatsu Line, the stone storehouse (fuel depot) beside Yoshimatsu Station and the steam locomotive C55 No. 52 preserved in front of it.

Stone storehouse (fuel depot)
Steam locomotive C55 No. 52
Component of a modernization industrial heritage group

Living here

Yoshimatsu and Kurino merged in 2005.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

On 22 March 2005 the towns of Yoshimatsu and Kurino merged to form Yusui. The town has three stations: Kurino, Yoshimatsu and Tsurumaru. The main Kurino town hall is in Koba and the Yoshimatsu town hall is in Nakatsugawa.

People living here: 9,119people
Area: 144.29km²
Households: 4,102households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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 across 1 prefectures.

Yusui Town in Japan31.952°N 130.721°E

Territory of Yusui Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.2km

Kagoshima Prefecture: 霧島市, 伊佐市, さつま町
Miyazaki Prefecture: えびの市

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

Yusui Town isthis kind of town.

01The Maruike Yusui culvert is a twin brick-arch culvert running under Kurino Station, completed in 1903 (Meiji 36). A catalogue by the Kyushu Regional Development Association gives its length as 67.4 m, with two bores each 0.92 m wide and four rings of brick. The Maruike spring upstream was chosen as one of Japan's 100 Famous Waters in 1985 and yields about 60,000 tonnes a day.
02Mikazuki Pond at the foot of Mt. Kurinodake is a national Natural Monument for its wild iris. The Koda terraced rice fields at the foot of Mt. Kunimidake are among Japan's 100 Terraced Rice Fields, and the town says their stonework dates from the mid-Edo period and has a curved profile.
03On the slopes of Mt. Kurinodake is the southern limit of wild Higan cherry, a national Natural Monument. The Takenaka Pond channel is among Japan's 100 Selected Irrigation Channels, and the stone storehouse and preserved locomotive at Yoshimatsu Station are listed as component sites of a METI heritage group.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yusui Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗