Tano Town

A merchant's house built rooms for the lord.

Oka Goten

Photo by Lumi iori (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tomb of the Twenty-Three Samurai | Fukuden-ji (福田寺)

Twenty-three men beheaded on the Nahari riverbankwere buried at Fukuden-ji by their leader's will.

Early on the fifth day of the ninth month, Genji 1, twenty-three men were beheaded on the Nahari riverbank. By the will of their leader, Kiyooka Michinosuke (清岡道之助), they were buried at Fukuden-ji. Where they were executed, in Nijusanshi Park, stands a memorial stone the town youth association built in Showa 5.

Beheaded early on the 5th day of the 9th month, Genji 1
23 grave markers in a row
Foundation 12m 1cm wide
Prefectural historic site

02 ／ Tachioka No. 2 Trestle (立岡二号桟道)

The forest railway's viaductcurves as if to avoid the fields.

The Tachioka No. 2 Trestle carried the Yanase Forest Railway from the Tachioka junction toward the Nahari log yard. Built in Showa 8 (1933), it is made of a stone-built viaduct and concrete girder bridges. Of the three-span truss bridge that crossed the Nahari River, only the piers remain.

Built in Showa 8 (1933)
Stone viaduct and concrete girder bridges
Only the piers of the three-span truss bridge remain

03 ／ District Magistrate's Office Site | Tano Gakkan (田野学館)

The seat of Aki District's government and schoolingis now a high school campus.

The Aki District magistrate's office was set up in Kaei 6, and the domain school, Tano Gakkan, in Ansei 1. Both were busy in the Bunkyu and Genji years, then abolished at the Meiji Restoration. The site is now part of the prefectural Chugei High School (中芸高校) campus; to visit, ask at the school office.

Magistrate's office: Kaei 6 (1853)
Tano Gakkan: Ansei 1 (1854)
Town-designated cultural property

Living here

2.2km by 4km: 6.53 square kilometers.

about 2,000 people
Rural district town

Tano lies at the mouth of the Nahari River, on its west bank, and faces Tosa Bay. The town calls itself "the smallest rural town in Shikoku." The climate is mild, with almost no snow. Tano Station, on the Gomen-Nahari Line of Tosa Kuroshio Railway, is in town.

People living here: 2,498people
Area: 6.53km²
Households: 1,170households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 1 clinic

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.

Tano Town in Japan33.428°N 134.008°E

Territory of Tano Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.1km

安田町, 北川村, 奈半利町

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

Tano Town isthis kind of town.

01Oka Goten was the house of the Oka family, first among Tano's five wealthy merchants, and was built as a lodging for the domain lord in shoin style. Built in Tenpo 15 (1844), it is a prefecturally designated cultural property and is open to visitors for a fee.
02Fukuden-ji holds the tomb of the twenty-three samurai beheaded on the Nahari riverbank, and the Tachioka No. 2 Trestle of the Yanase Forest Railway is a viaduct relic that curves as if to avoid the fields. The Aki District magistrate's office and the domain school Tano Gakkan stood on what is now the prefectural Chugei High School campus.
03From the mid-Edo period, Tano prospered as the merchants known as the Tano Gonin-shu (田野五人衆) developed mountain forest resources, and the town was called "Tano Senken ga Ura" (田野千軒が浦). It became a town in 1920 and has not merged.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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