Kitagawa Village

Forest rail crossed a river on concrete.

Horigao, Yanase Forest Railway

Photo by r18 INO (PACHIMO) (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Nakaoka Shintaro Residence Site (中岡慎太郎宅跡)

A garden-side shikidai entrance and an accounts room:Shintaro's birthplace is a reconstruction.

The Nakaoka Shintaro Residence Site, a prefectural historic site, lies in Kashiwagi on the left bank of the Nahari River. Shintaro was born in 1838 (Tenpo 9) in the house of a daishoya, or chief village headman. The thatched house has an accounts room; the guest room is the public room and the inner rooms are used privately. The birthplace was reconstructed in 1967 (Showa 42).

Prefectural Historic Site (designated June 28, 1968)
Reconstructed in 1967 (Showa 42)
Shintaro born in 1838 (Tenpo 9)

02 ／ Oyumi Festival at Hoshi Shrine (星神社のお弓祭り)

Twelve archers, tied to Yakushi's twelve generals,in a rite said to ward off evil.

A bow festival held on January 8 of odd-numbered years in the grounds of Hoshi Shrine in Kotsumo. The twelve archers split into two teams, Omo and Tani, purify themselves in river water from New Year's Day, and after the ceremonial archery loose their arrows in turn. Said to have begun in 912, it once rotated among the Hoshi shrines of Kotsumo, Wada and Shima.

Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated June 12, 1964)
Twelve archers in two teams, Omo and Tani
Said to have begun in 912

03 ／ Nakaoka Shintaro Kogaku-no-michi, the Path of Study (向学の道)

He walked a mountain path, about 90 minutes each way,to study. It is now called the Path of Study.

As a boy, Shintaro walked mountain paths to and from the domain school Tano Gakkan and the school of the herbal doctor Shimamura Sakugo. The route is now called the Nakaoka Shintaro Kogaku-no-michi (Path of Study). It takes about 90 minutes one way, and along it stands a row of trees named after his early childhood name (光次の並木).

About 90 minutes each way on a mountain path
Walked to and from Tano Gakkan
A row of trees named after his childhood name stands along the path

Living here

Forest covers about 95% ofthe village.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

Kitagawa is a mountain village in Aki District, covering 196.73 km². The Nahari River flows south through its center. There is no railway station in the village, but a village bus runs. It is also a yuzu village, and the old trees among its seed-grown yuzu (実生のゆず) are said to date from Shintaro's day.

People living here: 1,146people
Area: 196.73km²
Households: 549households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 0 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kitagawa Village in Japan33.448°N 134.042°E

Territory of Kitagawa Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

19.7km

Kochi Prefecture: 馬路村, 東洋町, 室戸市, 安田町, 奈半利町, 田野町
Tokushima Prefecture: 海陽町

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

Kitagawa Village isthis kind of town.

01Horigao Bridge in Futamata, Kitagawa, is a reinforced-concrete single-arch bridge, 46.9 m long, over the Nahari River. Built in 1941 (Showa 16) as part of the Yanase Forest Railway, it is one of the national Important Cultural Properties known as the former Yanase Forest Railway facilities, and is now used as a Kochi prefectural road facility.
02The Nakaoka Shintaro Residence Site, a prefectural historic site, is a reconstruction of the house in Kashiwagi where Shintaro was born, and the mountain path he took to school is called the Kogaku-no-michi. The Oyumi Festival at Hoshi Shrine, held in Kotsumo on January 8 of odd-numbered years, is a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
03The village is a yuzu-growing area; the village says Shintaro encouraged its cultivation, and the old trees among its seed-grown yuzu are said to date from his day. Facilities such as the Nakaoka Shintaro Museum and Monet's Garden Marmottan are also here.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kitagawa Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗