Tamana City

A bridge's middle dips for firm footing.

Suya and Kozaki Bridges, Takase

01 ／ Great Cycad of Onoshimo (大野下の大ソテツ)

A single cycad, about 11 m around its roots,stands in a garden. Its spirit is said to have woven silk in a girl's form.

In a garden in Onoshimo, Taimei (岱明), stands a single female plant. Its roots measure about 11 m around, it divides into a dozen or more trunks, and the tallest trunk is about 4.5 m high. Out of pity for the cycad spirit that took the form of a girl and wove silk, the household is said to have taken the surname Sotetsu (蘇鉄, cycad) at the Meiji Restoration.

National Natural Monument (Dec. 28, 1934)
About 11 m around the roots
Tallest trunk about 4.5 m

02 ／ Japanese Wax Tree Row on the Kikuchi River Embankment (菊池川堤防のハゼ並木)

237 Japanese wax trees line the Kikuchi River embankment,a remnant of the wax-making of old.

A nationally registered monument. The Kumamoto domain planted wax trees (hazenoki, ハゼノキ) as a recommended specialty product in 1664 (Kanbun 4), and the trees on the embankment are thought to have been planted from around 1724 (Kyōhō 9). At their peak the domain is said to have had about 700,000. They turn red in autumn.

Nationally registered monument (Feb. 6, 2007)
237 wax trees
Planted on the embankment from around 1724 (Kyōhō 9)

03 ／ Ishinuki Nagino Cave Tombs (石貫ナギノ横穴群)

Cave tombs line a cliff of the rock called haiishi (灰石).It became a National Historic Site in the first round for decorated tombs.

Along about 250 m of a cliff face of Aso welded tuff on the right bank of the Hanegi River, cave tombs (横穴墓) were cut in the later Kofun period. Some have a red circle motif painted on the frame at the entrance, and some have a house-shaped relief or a sword relief inside. In 1921 the group was designated a National Historic Site together with the Ishinuki Anakannon cave tombs.

National Historic Site (Mar. 3, 1921)
Tombs along a cliff face of about 250 m
Cemetery of the later Kofun period

Living here

190 minutes at the fastest, Shin-Osaka to Shin-Tamana.

about 60,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

Shin-Tamana Station is on the Kyushu Shinkansen. In JR West's timetable (October 2026), Sakura 763 leaves Shin-Osaka at 16:23 and leaves Shin-Tamana at 19:33. Only two trains a day, Sakura 763 and 773, run from Shin-Osaka to Shin-Tamana without a change.

People living here: 64,292people
Area: 152.6km²
Households: 25,278households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,358yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 55 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-03 に新設合併（岱明町・横島町・天水町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —18 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Tamana City in Japan32.935°N 130.563°E

to OsakaSanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen190min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表『東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/1796 。2026年10月2日と10月3日の表を取った。2日とも同じ）。新大阪『発』の行と新玉名の行を機械で突き合わせると、新大阪から新玉名へ乗り換えなしで停まる列車は2本だけ：さくら763号（新大阪16:23発→新玉名19:33発）・さくら773号（20:20発→23:40発）。列車ページ https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/316191?date=20261003（『さくら763号鹿児島中央行』『運転日毎日運転』『新大阪 16:23 発』『新玉名 19:32 着 19:33 発』。JR時刻表2026年10月号に基づく）と https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/train-timetable/314281?date=20261003（『さくら773号熊本行』『毎日運転』『新大阪 20:20 発』『新玉名 23:39 着 23:40 発』）で確かめた。最短は763号の16:23発→19:32着＝189分（発で数えると190分、773号は199分／200分） (checked 2026-10-03). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Tamana City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.0km

和水町, 玉東町, 熊本市, 荒尾市, 南関町, 長洲町

Tamana City isthis kind of town.

01The middle of Suya Bridge in Takase Urakawa is dipped, with the two sides slightly higher, so that people carrying loads can brace their feet. Kozaki Bridge has a groove cut on one side only, so that carts do not slip off.
02The Kumamoto domain's warehouses for rice tribute to be sent to Osaka stood at Takase, Kawashiri and Yatsushiro; of the maximum 400,000 bales shipped to Osaka's Dojima in the Bunka era, 200,000 came from Takase. Three cultural properties including the Takase landing site were designated the National Historic Site “Kumamoto Domain Takase Rice Granary Site” in 2022.
03The Former Tamana Reclamation Facilities have stone walls 3 to 6 m high and 5.2 km long, built in the mid-Meiji period; four embankments and three sluice gates are Important Cultural Properties. In Ikura (伊倉) stands the grave of Shiikan Kakukō (四位官郭公), a man from Fujian, China, who held a shuinjō (red-seal permit) in the early Edo period; it is called “Shiikan-san's grave.”

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tamana City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗