Uki City

This bridge is wider than long.

Misumi West Port, Ichinohashi

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Odara Kofun (小田良古墳)

Circles, quivers and shields carved on its stone panels;a decorated tomb not known on the Uto Peninsula.

A tomb on the tip of a low hill near the sea, thought to have been a round mound about 20 m across. A preliminary survey in 1977 showed it to be a decorated tomb. The four sides of its stone panels (石障, sekisho) bear carving and color; the east side has 3 circles, 2 quivers and 2 shields. In designating it, the Agency for Cultural Affairs wrote that decorated tombs had not been known on the Uto Peninsula until then.

National Historic Site (Misumi)
East side of the panels: 3 circles, 2 quivers, 2 shields
Thought to date from around the early 6th century

02 ／ Matsuai's White-walled Storehouses (松合の土蔵白壁)

Four great fires in five years; the village headmanspread fire-resistant white-walled storehouse houses.

The city's tourism site writes that Matsuai suffered four great fires in the five years from Bunsei 9 (1826). To relieve the victims and prevent fires, the village headman (庄屋, shoya) spread dozo (storehouse-style) houses with white plastered walls. The "fire-break paths" (火除け道, hiyoke-michi), made by spacing houses apart, also served as protection against disaster.

Four great fires in five years from 1826
Dozo-style houses with white walls
Fire-break paths between houses

03 ／ Josuiji Stelae (浄水寺碑)

Four stone stelae from 790 to 1064survive together in one place.

An Important Cultural Property. At the Josuiji site, a prefectural historic site, survive the Nandaimon stele (南大門碑) of Enryaku 9 (790), the lantern stele (燈籠碑) of Enryaku 20 (801), the temple-land stele (寺領碑) of Tencho 3 (826) and the Nyohokyo stele (如法経碑) of Kohei 7 (1064). The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that they are the only steles existing together in one place.

Important Cultural Property (designated 2015)
Four stelae: 790, 801, 826, 1064
Kamigo, Toyono

Living here

About 31.2 km east to west, from the seaside to hill basins.

about 60,000 people

A city formed in 2005 by the merger of five towns: Misumi (三角), Shiranui (不知火), Matsubase (松橋), Ogawa (小川) and Toyono (豊野). Misumi lies between the Shiranui Sea (不知火海) and the Ariake Sea; Toyono is a small basin surrounded on three sides by mountain ridges; eastern Ogawa is a hilly and mountainous area bordering the Kyushu mountains.

People living here: 57,032people
Area: 188.67km²
Households: 21,535households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,933yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 44 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —23 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 5 municipalities.

Uki City in Japan32.648°N 130.684°E

Territory of Uki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.6km

宇土市, 氷川町, 熊本市, 八代市, 美里町

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

Uki City isthis kind of town.

01Misumi West Port (三角西港, the former Misumi Port facilities), a port designed by the Dutch engineer Mulder and completed in 1887, is a component of a World Heritage site. Ichinohashi (一之橋), a bridge over a drainage channel, is 2.4 m long and 9.2 m wide
02Odara Kofun (小田良古墳, a National Historic Site) is a decorated tomb with circles, quivers and shields carved on its stone panels. The Josuiji Stelae (浄水寺碑, an Important Cultural Property) in Toyono are four stone stelae from the Nara and Heian periods
03Matsuai has streets of white-walled storehouses, and the city's tourism site writes that it suffered four great fires in five years. The former Uto District Office (旧宇土郡役所庁舎) in Misumi and the former Iwasaki residence (旧岩崎家住宅, Shioya) in Ogawa-juku are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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