Inabe City

Fish get pedigrees, then are released.

Nekogigi, Inabe River system

Photo by Totti (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Bridge

A bridge crossing an irrigation canal at a slanthas its lower blocks laid with a twist.

The Hokusei Line bridge (about 9.1 m long) crosses the Roppano-isui canal, built in the Edo period, at a slant. The blocks in the lower part of the arch are therefore laid with a twist, a construction called nejiri-manpo. Together with the three-arch Megane Bridge, it was selected in fiscal 2009 as a Civil Engineering Heritage site by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

About 9.1 m long
Megane Bridge has three arches
Civil Engineering Heritage, FY2009

02 ／ Irrigation

From the time a stone pillar's shadow reaches its projection,the Kasada Otame reservoir's water was split between day and night.

A sundial about 60 cm tall, designated by the prefecture in 1967 as a Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The year Koka 4 (1847) is carved on its back. From the evening hour of about 5 p.m., the farther Oizumi Shinden took the water by day and the nearer Kasada Shinden by night, splitting the reservoir's hours of use in two. According to the city, the time measured with this monument is said to have settled the water disputes.

About 60 cm tall
Prefectural designation, 1967
Split day and night at about 5 p.m.

03 ／ School building

A classroom from around 1964 has been restored,and umbrellas the pupils used are on display.

Built in 1937 (Showa 12) as the Ageki town ordinary elementary school building, it took the name Torinkan from the paulownia trees planted in the schoolyard. The ordinary classroom was restored from the accounts of former teachers and graduates, and the principal's office holds fittings moved from Tatsuta Elementary School. It became a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014.

Built 1937
Nationally registered, 2014
Paulownia trees in the schoolyard

Living here

47 to 60 minutes by the Hokusei Line, from Nishi-Kuwana to Ageki.

about 40,000 people

The railways in the city are the Sangi Line and the Hokusei Line of Sangi Railway. The city's guide says to change from Kuwana Station to Nishi-Kuwana Station (about 5 minutes on foot), then ride the Hokusei Line to Ageki Station for about 47 to 60 minutes, depending on the time of day. From Ageki Station, the nearest station the city lists for City Hall, it is about 20 minutes on foot or about 12 minutes by the city's welfare bus.

People living here: 44,973people
Area: 219.83km²
Households: 18,075households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,951yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 24 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Inabe City in Japan35.158°N 136.517°E

Territory of Inabe City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.4km

Mie Prefecture: 菰野町, 桑名市, 東員町, 四日市市
Gifu Prefecture: 大垣市, 海津市, 養老町
Shiga Prefecture: 東近江市, 多賀町

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

Inabe City isthis kind of town.

01Nekogigi is a fish about 10 cm long that lives only in the middle and upper reaches of rivers in Aichi, Gifu and Mie prefectures, and is a National Natural Monument. The city breeds Inabe River system nekogigi in tanks while managing their family lines, and releases them into rivers where they no longer live. The photo shows a fish kept in an aquarium
02Kokugen Hikage-ishi is a Tangible Folk Cultural Property designated by the prefecture, and the Nejiri Bridge and Megane Bridge of the Hokusei Line are Civil Engineering Heritage sites selected by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers. Torinkan and the former Ageki Elementary School gate and stone fence were registered as National Tangible Cultural Properties in 2014
03In 2003 the four towns of Hokusei, Inabe, Daian and Fujiwara merged to form the city. Mount Fujiwara lies in Suzuka Quasi-National Park, a karst mountain on limestone terrain known as a "mountain of flowers" that climbers visit

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Inabe City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗