Nagomi Town

Four names in silver on a sword's spine.

Eta Funayama Kofun, inlaid sword

Photo by Saigen Jiro (Public domain)

01 ／ The Eight Deities

Fire-blowing bamboo for the ear deity,roasted soybeans for the wart deity.

Eight deities tied to the body are scattered across the town. At the grave of the ear deity, fire-blowing bamboo (火吹き竹) is offered, and a new one is dedicated as thanks. Roasted soybeans, one for each year of one's age, are offered to the wart deity, and white sand or rice to the tooth deity when a tooth aches.

Eight deities tied to the body
Ear: fire-blowing bamboo / Wart: roasted soybeans
Tooth: white sand or rice

02 ／ Eta Anakannon Kofun

A chamber of cut tuff,3 burial beds rear, 2 front.

This round tomb, about 17m across, stands at the southern end of a plateau (諏訪原台地) across the Eta River from the plateau of Eta Funayama Kofun (江田船山古墳). It was built between the late 6th and early 7th century. Its two-chamber stone chamber has three burial beds (屍床) for laying out the dead in the rear room and two in the front room.

National Historic Site (designated 1944)
Round tomb, about 17m across
Burial beds: 3 rear, 2 front

03 ／ Tonkararin

A tunnel site about 450m long,made by shaping a natural fissure.

It lies on the eastern slope of the Seibaru plateau (清原台地), continuing from Eta Funayama Kofun. A natural fissure, said to be an old rain gully, was shaped by hand and partly roofed over to make a tunnel. Theories differ, including a waterway or a place of worship; who built it, when, and why remains a mystery. The town says it is closed to entry.

Prefectural historic site
About 450m long
Closed to entry

Living here

The town office is 5 minutes by car from Kikusui IC.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

The town was formed in March 2006 by the merger of Kikusui and Mikawa. There is no railway station in town; the town's official guide gives the nearest as JR Kagoshima Main Line's Tamana Station, about 20 minutes by car. Mikawa Onsen Furusato Koryu Center (三加和温泉ふるさと交流センター) has a large bath, an open-air bath and private family baths.

People living here: 9,342people
Area: 98.78km²
Households: 3,416households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

Nagomi Town in Japan32.978°N 130.606°E

Territory of Nagomi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

19.4km

Kumamoto Prefecture: 山鹿市, 南関町, 玉名市, 玉東町
Fukuoka Prefecture: 八女市, みやま市

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

Nagomi Town isthis kind of town.

01The silver-inlaid inscribed sword excavated at Eta Funayama Kofun (a National Historic Site) bears 75 characters inlaid in silver on its spine, with four personal names. The 92 excavated items are National Treasures, kept at the Tokyo National Museum.
02Eight deities tied to the body are scattered across town; fire-blowing bamboo is offered to the ear deity and roasted soybeans to the wart deity. Eta Anakannon Kofun (a National Historic Site) has a two-chamber stone chamber built of cut tuff.
03Tonkararin, a prefectural historic site, is a tunnel site about 450m long. Kanakuri Shiso, called the father of Japanese marathon running, was born in what is now Nagomi, and the town is one of four municipalities of the Japan Heritage story on the Kikuchi River basin, 'Two Thousand Years of Rice Farming'.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nagomi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗