Nishiki Town

Six Kannon were carved over 53 years.

Shinguji Temple's Six Kannon

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kinoe Station Waiting Room

A waiting room of 14 m² building area,a facility from the 1953 opening.

Kinoe Station (木上駅) on the Kuma River Railway (くま川鉄道) is an unstaffed station that opened in 1953 (Showa 28). Its one-story steel waiting room has a frontage of 5.0m and a building area of 14 m². The town's booklet describes the waiting room and platform as facilities from the opening. In 2014 they were registered as a nationally registered tangible cultural property.

Building area 14 m², frontage 5.0m
Opened 1953 (Showa 28)
2014-12-19: nationally registered tangible cultural property

02 ／ Kamezuka Kofun Group

Three keyhole-shaped tombs,about 45 to 50m long, remain.

Tomb No. 1 is a prefecturally designated historic site and Tomb No. 2 a town-designated one. The town's booklet calls them the only keyhole-shaped tombs in Kuma District (球磨郡), and a Kumamoto University Faculty of Letters leaflet describes them as the southernmost in Kumamoto Prefecture. Because details of the excavated items are unknown, the date of construction is not clear.

Tomb No. 1: prefectural historic site (1976)
Length: about 45m, 45m and 50m
Only one in Kuma District (town booklet)

03 ／ Marume Kurandonosuke

The swordsman who founded Taisha-ryucleared mountain land in Ichibu in his later years.

A fencing instructor to the Sagara domain, he was born in Yatsushiro in 1540 and died in 1629. In his later years he lived in retirement in Ichibu Village (一武村), where, the town says, he cleared more than seven cho (七町歩) of mountain land and fields with the villagers. The fields, waterways and planted forest are still in use, and his grave and relics are town-designated cultural properties.

Founder of Taisha-ryu (タイ捨流); Sagara domain fencing instructor
1540-1629
Grave and relics: town-designated

Living here

Three Kuma River Railway stations are in town.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

Higo-Nishinomura (肥後西村), Ichibu (一武) and Kinoe (木上) stations on the Kuma River Railway's Yunomae Line are in town, and all three are unstaffed. Higo-Nishinomura Station is a three-minute walk from Kumamoto Prefectural Kuma Chuo High School (県立球磨中央高校). The town office is in Ichibu.

People living here: 10,288people
Area: 85.04km²
Households: 3,729households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 10 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Nishiki Town in Japan32.201°N 130.841°E

Territory of Nishiki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.4km

人吉市, 相良村, あさぎり町

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

Nishiki Town isthis kind of town.

01Shinguji Temple (新宮寺), No. 32 on the Sagara 33 Kannon pilgrimage, holds six town-designated Kannon statues. The town's booklet records that different sculptors carved them between 1577 (Tensho 5) and 1630 (Kan'ei 7), a span of 53 years.
02The waiting room at Kinoe Station is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. The town's booklet calls the Kamezuka Kofun Group the only keyhole-shaped tombs in Kuma District. Marume Kurandonosuke (丸目蔵人佐), founder of Taisha-ryu, spent his later years in Ichibu.
03Kinoe has two graves whose posthumous names are inscribed with characters meaning 'ever drunk at feasts' and 'drunk on sake, always happy' (酒宴常酔・酒酔常楽), counted among the Japan Heritage cultural properties. The town's booklet describes the Kinoe Canal (木上溝) as an irrigation channel about 8km long. The Kuwahara Residence (桑原家住宅) in Ichibu is a kagiya-style (鉤屋) farmhouse and an Important Cultural Property.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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