Hidaka Village

Niyodo's lowest reach, a 191 m bridge.

Nagoya Submersible Bridge

Photo by Localguides tosa (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Ring-Pommel Sword of Omura Shrine, photo shows a replica (小村神社の金銅荘環頭大刀)

Inside the ring of the pommel,two dragons face each other on a National Treasure sword.

The sacred object of Omura Shrine (小村神社) and a National Treasure: the gilt-bronze ring-pommel sword with its mounting and blade (金銅荘環頭大刀拵・大刀身). Inside the ring of the pommel, twin dragons face each other holding a jewel, rendered in openwork. Thought to date to the end of the Kofun period, it is also a heirloom kept hidden deep within the shrine. The public may view it only on November 15, at the autumn festival.

National Treasure (designated 1958)
Thought to date to the end of the Kofun period (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Viewing only at the autumn festival on November 15 (village official site)

02 ／ Matsuoka Residence Sake Warehouses (松岡家住宅の酒蔵群)

The outer walls of the West Sake Warehouseare reinforced concrete with buttresses.

The Matsuoka Residence (松岡家住宅) in Hongo, Hidaka, was a house that doubled as a sake brewery. Twelve of its structures, including the main house and warehouses, became Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2004. The Agency for Cultural Affairs calls the West Warehouse a relic that tells of how sake-warehouse construction developed. The tank room and North Warehouse date to the Taisho era; the West Warehouse to early Showa.

12 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties (registered March 2, 2004)
West Warehouse early Showa; tank room and North Warehouse Taisho (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
North Warehouse is the largest earthen-walled storehouse on the grounds (Agency for Cultural Affairs)

03 ／ Omura Shrine's Toumyou Cedar (小村神社の燈明杉)

From a tradition that it glows before trouble,it is called the "Toumyou-sugi" sacred tree.

The great tree rising behind the shrine buildings is a peony cedar (牡丹杉) said to be over a thousand years old. From a tradition that it glows before an emergency, it is called the Toumyou-sugi (燈明杉). Omura Shrine is said to have been founded in 587, and was placed as the second shrine of Tosa Province, after Tosa Shrine.

Peony cedar said to be over 1,000 years old
Tradition that it glows before an emergency (village official site)
Founded in 587 (village official site)

Living here

16 km from the prefectural capital,about 30 minutes by car.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

The village describes itself as a just-right countryside (ほどよい田舎), 16 km from the prefectural capital and about 30 minutes by car. Three JR Dosan Line stations lie within the village, and the village says to get off at Kusaka Station (日下駅) for the village center.

People living here: 4,812people
Area: 44.85km²
Households: 1,984households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Hidaka Village in Japan33.535°N 133.373°E

Territory of Hidaka Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.2km

いの町, 佐川町, 土佐市, 越知町

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

Hidaka Village isthis kind of town.

01Nagoya Submersible Bridge (名越屋沈下橋) spans the lowest reach of the Niyodo River, linking Hidaka and the town of Ino. It is 191 m long and is an everyday local road, but it sinks under the river when floods raise the water, hence the name "chinka-bashi" (submersible bridge).
02Omura Shrine is placed as the second shrine of Tosa Province, and its sacred sword, the gilt-bronze ring-pommel sword, is a National Treasure. It can be viewed only at the autumn festival on November 15, and the cedar behind it carries a tradition of glowing before an emergency. A building of the former Matsuoka brewery serves as the Hidaka Sakagura Hall.
03At the autumn festival of Shiro Hachiman Shrine in Okiname, the Hanatori sword dance is dedicated. Sarutado is a limestone cave with a legend that the ninja Kusaka Mohei trained there, and Mt. Otaki is a 247 m mountain where many ascetics once trained, with more than 30 stone Buddhas scattered across it.

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

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