Geisei Village

Sisters wave at Ryoma's statue.

Oryo & Kimie Statue, Kotogahama

Photo by Dokudami (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Asteroid Geisei (小惑星ゲイセイ)

Seki Tsutomu found the asteroidnamed Geisei, at Geisei.

According to the Minor Planet Center, asteroid (2571) Geisei was discovered on October 23, 1981 by Seki Tsutomu (関勉), and is named for the location of the discoverer's observatory. The prefectural Geisei Astronomical Learning Center (芸西天文学習館) was completed in March 1981. The prefectural board of education says the building has been closed since November 2025, while the neighboring observation dome can still be used.

Discovered October 23, 1981 by Seki Tsutomu (Minor Planet Center)
Learning center completed March 1981 (Showa 56)
223 asteroids discovered by Seki (prefecture, 2022)

02 ／ Kotogahama Pine Grove (琴ヶ浜松原)

The pine grove of a beach arcing about 4 kmis a prefecturally designated scenic site.

Kotogahama is a gently curving beach about 4 km long, east to west. In the prefecture's list, Kotogahama Pine Grove is a scenic site designated on May 31, 1952, managed by Geisei Village. An open-air theater overlooks the Pacific, and the village walking guide mentions viewing the sea from a wooden deck and strolling the pine woods.

About 4 km east to west (village walking guide)
Prefectural scenic site, designated May 31, 1952 (prefecture's list)
Open-air theater facing the Pacific (village site)

03 ／ Shiratama Sugar (白玉糖)

Sugar-making, once a domain monopoly,became a village-wide sideline in the Meiji era.

According to the village, the sugar-making behind Shiratama-to (白玉糖) has been carried out since around 1830 (the Tenpo era), when it was entirely a domain monopoly. After the monopoly ended in the Meiji era, it spread across the village as a sideline. Shiratama-to is brown sugar boiled down from sugarcane juice, and the Denshokan (伝承館) holds sugar-making work from mid-November to around the end of December.

Since around 1830, the Tenpo era (village site)
Monopoly lifted in the Meiji era; spread village-wide
Sugar-making work mid-November to late December (Denshokan)

Living here

The greenhouse village boastsa 90% national share in bluestar.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

The village is bounded by the Pacific to the south and mountains to the north, and the Wajiki River (和食川) and its tributary the Hase River (長谷川) form a plain of about 300 ha near the river mouth. The mild climate suits greenhouse horticulture, which raises eggplant, bell peppers and cut flowers. Bluestar (ブルースター) was branded in 2006 (Heisei 18), and the village says it holds a 90% national share, mainly in the bridal trade.

People living here: 3,694people
Area: 39.6km²
Households: 1,511households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Geisei Village in Japan33.527°N 133.809°E

Territory of Geisei Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.8km

香南市, 安芸市

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

Geisei Village isthis kind of town.

01The Oryo and Kimie Sisters Statue stands near the open-air theater at Kotogahama Pine Grove, waving toward a statue of Sakamoto Ryoma. The village walking guide describes the site of the Chiya family, where Kimie married in, as the former estate of the village headman with whom Oryo, Ryoma's wife, stayed.
02Asteroid Geisei takes its name from the location of its discoverer's observatory; the discoverer was Seki Tsutomu. Kotogahama Pine Grove is a prefecturally designated scenic site, and the sugar-making behind Shiratama-to has been carried out since around 1830.
03The Suenobu House (末延家住宅, formerly the Suenobu-do Clinic), a Western-style building that combined a clinic and a residence, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. The village site calls itself one of the leading horticultural villages in Kochi Prefecture, growing eggplant, bell peppers and bluestar.

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Geisei Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗