Ino Town

A shifting blue, and a serpent legend.

Nikobuchi, Edagawa-gawa pool

Photo by Dokudami (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Octagonal lacquered mikoshi

Among portable shrines that are Important Cultural Properties,the town says only Sugimoto Shrine's is octagonal.

The mikoshi of Sugimoto Shrine (椙本神社) was made in 1263, and an inscription is written on a corner rafter of its roof. To keep the original intact, a copy of the same size and decoration was finished in 1977, and it has been used in the festival procession since.

Made in 1263 (town website)
A copy was finished in 1977 (town website)
Designated an Important Cultural Property (craft) on 28 June 1956 (town website)

02 ／ Yoshii Genta

Yoshii Genta, called a benefactor of Tosa papermaking,devised tengujō paper.

Born in 1826 into a family of papermakers to the Tosa domain. The Paper Museum records his devising of tengujō (典具帖紙) and improved mitsumata hanshi, and his work on papermaking tools. The plaque at his birthplace says a huge screen and frame he invented doubled output.

Birthplace designated a town historic site on 15 Oct 1964 (town website)
Papermaking tools (60), calligraphy (19) and records (55) are town-designated (town website)
Tosa tengujō paper became an Important Intangible Cultural Property (craft technique) on 12 July 2001 (town website)

03 ／ Yamanaka House (Etsuraimon)

A house in Motokawa long said to have been builtas lodging for Tosa domain officials.

The Yamanaka House (山中家住宅) in Etsuraimon is an Important Cultural Property owned by the town. Against the story that it lodged officials, the town website also notes that it is too grand a house even allowing for a remote mountain setting. It is a different house from the Former Yamanaka House in Kumakōgen, Ehime.

Designated an Important Cultural Property (building) on 15 May 1972 (town website)
Owned by Ino Town (town website)
Thatched, hipped roof, board walls (town website)

Living here

Ino, Gohoku and Motokawa merged in 2004.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

A town in Agawa District covering 470.97 km². It was formed on 1 October 2004 by the merger of Ino Town, Gohoku Village and Motokawa Village. The town office is in Ino, five minutes on foot from JR Ino Station, according to the town website. In Motokawa the Motokawa Kagura (本川神楽), an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is handed down.

People living here: 21,374people
Area: 470.97km²
Households: 9,111households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,427yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 10 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Ino Town in Japan33.549°N 133.428°E

Territory of Ino Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

35.7km

Kochi Prefecture: 高知市, 土佐町, 仁淀川町, 日高村, 越知町, 大川村, 土佐市
Ehime Prefecture: 西条市, 新居浜市, 久万高原町

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

Ino Town isthis kind of town.

01Nikobuchi (にこ淵), a plunge pool on the Edagawa-gawa, is presented by the tourism website as a spot of ever-changing blue. A legend remains that a great serpent, said to be an incarnation of the water god, lives there. The forest road from the national highway is narrow and jams on holidays, so the tourism website advises checking its crowd forecast.
02Sugimoto Shrine (椙本神社, known as Ino's Daikoku-sama) is known for its spring and autumn festivals, and Tosa tengujō paper is an Important Intangible Cultural Property (craft technique). The Ino Town Paper Museum, opened in 1985, will be closed for renovation from 16 November 2026 to 31 March 2027.
03The former Motokawa Village has the Motokawa Kagura, an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The UFO Line (UFOライン, the Kamegamori route), a town road about 27 km long stretching against the backdrop of Mt. Ishizuchi, is closed for winter from late November until spring.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ino Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗