Yunomae Town

A temple hall wears a mansard roof.

Myodoji Main Hall, Western style

Photo by MK Products (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Yunomae Station Building

Parts of its pillars reuserails from an earlier time.

Yunomae Station's main building (湯前駅本屋) is a single-story wooden structure built in 1924 (Taisho 13) for the Yunomae Line, and it became a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The town's plan notes that parts of the pillars reuse earlier rails, whose size can be compared with today's. The national database describes it as the only station building on the line that keeps its prewar appearance.

Built 1924 (Taisho 13)
Registered national Tangible Cultural Property, 2014
Pillars reuse earlier rails

02 ／ Higashikata Village and the Tunnel

A new-field village founded after the canal'scompletion was split in three after about 80 years.

When the Kounomizo Canal (幸野溝) was completed in 1705, the new-field village of Higashikata (東方村) arose, covering parts of what are now Taragi Town and Mizukami Village; in 1789 it was divided by domain order among the three villages of Kume, Taragi and Yunomae. Within Yunomae lies a 665m tunnel, the 'new' tunnel (新貫), which the town's plan says was dug anew with 45 survey engineers brought from Satsuma.

Canal completed 1705
Higashikata Village: about 80 years (to 1789)
'New' tunnel: 665m long

03 ／ Stone Pagodas and a Miswritten Name

A temple known by a miswritten namehas stone pagodas inscribed Kanki 2.

The Amida Hall (阿弥陀堂) in Myodoji's detached grounds originally bore another temple name (浄心寺). The town's tourism site says the name was miswritten when its Buddhist statues were designated national treasures in 1915 (Taisho 4), and it came to be called by a different one (城泉寺). The seven-story and nine-story stone pagodas are national Important Cultural Properties, both with a 'Kanki 2' (1230) inscription.

Kanki 2 (1230) inscription
Seven- and nine-story pagodas: national Important Cultural Properties
1915 designation: name miswritten (城泉寺)

Living here

24km from Hitoyoshi, at the eastern edge of the Kuma Basin.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

The town's overview says it lies at the eastern edge of the Kuma Basin, touching Nishimera Village (西米良村) in Miyazaki Prefecture along the Kyushu Mountains to the east and facing Mizukami Village across the Kuma River to the north. Its area is 48.37km². The only railway station in town is Yunomae on the Kumagawa Railway, and the town's Yunomae Manga Museum promotes manga culture with the satirical cartoonist Nasu Ryosuke, born in Yunomae, as its starting point.

People living here: 3,627people
Area: 48.37km²
Households: 1,401households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 across 1 prefectures.

Yunomae Town in Japan32.276°N 130.981°E

Territory of Yunomae Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.1km

Kumamoto Prefecture: 水上村, 多良木町
Miyazaki Prefecture: 西米良村

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

Yunomae Town isthis kind of town.

01Myodoji Main Hall (明導寺本堂) is a temple hall completed in 1926 (Taisho 15) and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Its mansard roof and pointed-arch windows give it a Western style, and the national description says it is said to have been designed independently by the abbot's eldest son, who studied at Ryukoku University in Kyoto.
02The main building of Yunomae Station (湯前駅本屋), a wooden station building of 1924 (Taisho 13), has pillars that use earlier rails. Higashikata Village (東方村), founded after the Kounomizo Canal (幸野溝) was completed, was split into three villages after about 80 years, and Yunomae holds the 665m 'new' tunnel (新貫).
03In the grounds of the Myodoji Amida Hall (明導寺阿弥陀堂), known by another name (城泉寺), stand seven-story and nine-story stone pagodas with a Kanki 2 (1230) inscription. The Hasshoji Amida Hall (八勝寺阿弥陀堂) is an Important Cultural Property thought to date back to the late 15th century, and the satirical cartoonist Nasu Ryosuke grew up near Shimomachi Bridge (下町橋), a stone bridge built in 1906 (Meiji 39).

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yunomae Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗