Nahari Town

Rails cut the path; a bridge was built.

Hōon-ji Overpass, Sankō-in path

Photo by Navian (Public domain)

01 ／ Coral on the Breakwaters (離岸堤のサンゴ)

On breakwaters built to calm the waves,coral forms colonies.

To break waves and restore the beach, offshore breakwaters were placed along the Nahari Port coast between 1975 and 1993. According to the Japan Society of Civil Engineers' journal, coral began settling on them around 1975, and a 2003 survey found 73 species, 22 of them recorded in Tosa Bay for the first time.

Coral settling on the breakwaters from around 1975 (JSCE journal, 2003)
73 species in the 2003 survey, 22 new to Tosa Bay
9 species at their northern limit on the Pacific coast of the mainland (2003)

02 ／ Hamada Noriya House (濱田典彌家住宅)

A landlord's estate is bounded at its cornerby a beach-stone "mame-ita wall" (豆板塀).

The home of the Hamada family, big landowners of Nahari, built in 1934 (Showa 9). Its stone wall is a concrete wall of beach stones, 0.3 m thick and 1.9 m high, bending along 24 m. The Agency for Cultural Affairs calls it an example of what is locally known as a mame-ita wall. The Kome-azukari-ba (米あずかり場) speaks to how a landlord's estate was laid out. The interior is normally closed.

Five buildings incl. main house, kitchen wing, Kome-azukari-ba, storehouse and wall are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties (registered 2004)
Wall: 0.3 m thick, 1.9 m high, 24 m long
Interior normally not open (Japan Heritage council)

03 ／ Timber-Floating Votive Plaque (材木流しの絵馬)

Timber carried down the Nahari Riveris depicted on a plaque of 1879.

A votive plaque (ema) offered to Sankō-in (三光院) in 1879 (Meiji 12) depicts timber being carried by the flow of the Nahari River. In the Chugei area, before forest railways were laid, timber went from mountain to sea on the currents of the Yasuda and Nahari rivers. Designated a Nahari Town Tangible Cultural Property, it is kept by the Kochi Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore. Dake-Sakamoto Shrine (多気坂本神社) also holds a timber-floating plaque.

Offered to Sankō-in in 1879 (Meiji 12)
Nahari Town Tangible Cultural Property (fine arts and crafts)
Kept by the Kochi Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore (Japan Heritage council)

Living here

On the old road that thrived at a junction of highways,old buildings still lived in are scattered.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

Nahari belongs to Aki District. It thrived as the junction of the Tosa Higashi Kaido (土佐東街道) and the Noneyama Kaido (野根山街道), and houses with water-shedding tiles, beach-stone walls and red-brick storehouses are scattered about. On Bunka Isan Online, 37 buildings in town are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. The town cites rice and greenhouse eggplant and watermelon, with figs, yamamomo and golden eye snapper as specialties.

People living here: 3,034people
Area: 28.37km²
Households: 1,409households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 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 3 municipalities.

Nahari Town in Japan33.424°N 134.021°E

Territory of Nahari Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.8km

室戸市, 北川村, 田野町

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

Nahari Town isthis kind of town.

01Hōon-ji Overpass (法恩寺跨線橋) is a stone arch bridge over the approach path to Sankō-in (三光院), one of the constituent properties of a Japan Heritage story. Built around 1933, it was raised as a path bridge over the tracks because the Yanase Forest Railway's Nahari River line was to cross the approach. It now spans a town road on the old track bed and remains part of the approach.
02Coral has settled on the breakwaters of Furusato Beach (ふるさと海岸). The Kaihin Center offers marine activities for viewing coral offshore. The Hamada Noriya House is a landlord's estate, and the plaque at Sankō-in depicts timber floating on the Nahari River.
03The mayor's greeting says the Noneyama Kaido was opened in the Yoro era as an official road linking Tosa and Awa, and that the Tosa Diary records the place as Naha no Tomari. Thirty-seven buildings in town are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties, and specialties include figs and golden eye snapper.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nahari Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗