Taragi Town

A thatched roof bends as it joins.

Ota House, kagiya house

Photo by Mizushimasea (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shorenji Amida Hall

A place nicknamed 'Hida' lies in front of the hall,and it is said to be the work of Hida carpenters.

A nationally designated Important Cultural Property: a thatched hall (茅葺) with a four-sided hipped roof (四注造), five bays by five. Its eaves stand about 4.48m high. The town's site records that it is said to be the work of Hida carpenters (飛騨の工匠), and that a place called 'Hida' still lies in front. The Amida triad inside is also an Important Cultural Property, described as the work of the Kamakura-period In-school sculptor Hoin Ingen (法印院玄).

Five bays by five, thatched
Eaves about 4.48m high
Place called 'Hida' in front

02 ／ Hyakutaro-mizo Old Intake Sluice

The sluice that took in Kuma River waterwas restored as a gate 5.8m high.

The Hyakutaro-mizo (百太郎溝) irrigation channel runs from an intake on the south bank of the Kuma River to Nishiki, and was completed in 1710. The old sluice is made of tuff, 5.8m high and 9.5m long. Removed in 1960, it was restored in Hyakutaro Park. In 2016, with the Kono-mizo, the channel was registered as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure.

5.8m high, 9.5m long
Town-designated historic site
2016: World Heritage Irrigation Structure

03 ／ Ougu Shrine Tower Gate

In repairs near the end of the Meiji era,the upper brackets were removed and the gate lowered.

A Kumamoto Prefecture Important Cultural Property: a thatched two-story gate (楼門) with a hip roof, three bays wide with a single doorway, and Zen-style two-step brackets. The town's site records that it is said to have been built in 1416 (Oei 23) by Sagara Yorihisa. Repairs around the end of the Meiji era removed the upper brackets, and the whole gate was lowered.

Prefectural Important Cultural Property
Three bays, Zen-style brackets
Said to be built in 1416

Living here

The banquet game Kuma-ken is a town-designated folk cultural property.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

The town's Cultural Property Conservation and Utilization Plan (certified by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in July 2024) describes Kuma-ken (球磨拳) as a game played at drinking parties, spread by lower-ranking samurai of the Hitoyoshi domain in the Edo period. The plan lists a project to support, in people and funds, the holding of a 'world championship'.

People living here: 9,076people
Area: 165.86km²
Households: 3,463households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 9 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Taragi Town in Japan32.264°N 130.936°E

Territory of Taragi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.9km

Kumamoto Prefecture: あさぎり町, 水上村, 湯前町, 五木村, 相良村
Miyazaki Prefecture: 西米良村, 小林市

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

Taragi Town isthis kind of town.

01Ota House (太田家住宅) is a thatched traditional house and a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. Its hip roof is bent in two places, giving it a magariya-like (曲屋風) appearance, and it was designated as representing the kagiya (鈎屋) houses of the Hitoyoshi-Kuma region.
02Shorenji Amida Hall is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, said to be the work of Hida carpenters. The Taragi Sagara Clan Sites (多良木相良氏遺跡), designated a national historic site on September 18, 2025, are described by the Agency for Cultural Affairs as a group of sites that concretely show how the Taragi Sagara, head family of the Sagara (a gokenin house that moved west, 西遷御家人), governed and developed the area.
03The Hyakutaro-mizo old intake sluice is a tuff gate 5.8m high. The Ougu Shrine tower gate is a prefectural Important Cultural Property, lowered when its upper brackets were removed in repairs in the late Meiji period.

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