Kikuchi City

A canal said built in Kiyomasa's name.

Tsuiji Ide, Irrigation Heritage

01 ／ Kikuchi Matsubayashi

The Noh stage faces a giant muku treecalled Shogunboku.

On the first day of Kikuchi Shrine's autumn festival, matsubayashi (松囃子) is performed on a Noh stage that faces a great muku tree called Shogunboku (将軍木), a prefectural natural monument. Local tradition holds that it began as a New Year celebration in the 14th century, held by Kikuchi Takemitsu after he welcomed Prince Kanenaga (懐良親王). In 1998 it was designated a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

1998-12-16: national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Shogunboku: prefectural natural monument
14th-century origin: local tradition

02 ／ Tomita Underdrainage

Buying a small wet paddy, he spent about25 years devising underdrainage.

Born in the Utena (台) district of Shichijo, Tomita Jinpei (冨田甚平) wondered whether differences in harvests came down to drainage. In 1878 he bought a wet paddy of 1 tan 4 se (1反4畝) and began draining experiments. Close the drain's cover and water stays so the field becomes a paddy; open it and the field dries. The city writes that this underdrainage technique turned many wet fields across Japan into good ones.

1878: bought a 1 tan 4 se wet paddy
About 25 years to devise
Cover opened or closed to set the water

03 ／ Yonjusanman Falls

A chain of falls, its name said to comefrom 430,000 koku of daily flow.

Kikuchi Gorge (菊池渓谷) is the source of the Kikuchi River, about 17km east of the city center on the northwestern side of the Aso outer rim. Along its trail, Yonjusanman Falls (四十三万滝) is a chain of falls large and small; its name is said to come from an average daily flow of 430,000 koku (78,000 tons). It is one of Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls.

Average daily flow: 430,000 koku (78,000 tons)
Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls
About 17km east of the city center

Living here

A loop bus circles town for 100 yen a ride.

about 50,000 people

The Kikuchi Benri Car (きくちべんりカー) is a route bus that circles the city's urban area. It alternates between an east course and a west course, and according to the city, a ride costs 100 yen however far you go (50 yen for children). It does not run on Sundays, national holidays, or at the New Year.

People living here: 46,416people
Area: 276.85km²
Households: 17,593households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,792yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 38 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-22 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —21 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 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kikuchi City in Japan32.979°N 130.813°E

Territory of Kikuchi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.5km

Kumamoto Prefecture: 山鹿市, 大津町, 合志市, 阿蘇市, 熊本市
Oita Prefecture: 日田市

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

Kikuchi City isthis kind of town.

01Tsuiji Ide (築地井手) is a canal that flows west from the Kikuchi River toward the city's urban area, one of the Kikuchi Irrigation Systems registered as World Heritage Irrigation Structures. It is said to have been built in the name of Kato Kiyomasa, and one of its branches runs in front of City Hall.
02Kikuchi Matsubayashi (菊池の松囃子), a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is performed on a Noh stage facing a great muku tree called Shogunboku. Tomita Jinpei, from Shichijo, spent about 25 years devising an underdrainage technique.
03Kikuchi Gorge, the source of the Kikuchi River, holds Yonjusanman Falls, one of Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls. Haru Ide (原井手), in the eastern hills, has a tunnel the city describes as the oldest canal tunnel of the Higo domain, highly rated in the history of agricultural engineering.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kikuchi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗