24442 ／ めいわちょう
Mie Prefecture 多気郡Wild irises colonize a plain's wetland.
Wild Japanese Iris Colony, Saiku01 ／ Historic site
The site of the palace and offices of the Saio, the imperial princess who served at Ise Jingu, it spans 2 km east-west and 700 m north-south (prefecture). Excavation found a grid layout from the late Nara period, and more than 500 people in all, mostly officials, worked here (town). Digs began in 1968, and three buildings have been reconstructed.
02 ／ Archaeological site
The firing pits for Haji ware, an unglazed earthenware, are found at 20 sites in the town, 534 in all (town, as of 2016). Kitano site alone has 228, which the prefecture calls the most at any single site in Japan. They are close to isosceles triangles in plan and are thought to have been roofless, fired under a cover of straw and clay.
03 ／ Burial mounds
A prefectural historic site. The group once held about 150 mounds, counting the surroundings, but most were lost to land clearing and a few remain. The gilt-bronze hammer-headed sword from Mound 1 is a prefectural cultural property, and the view that it came from the central court is the leading one (prefecture).
Living here
The town's stations are Saiku and Myojo on the Kintetsu Yamada Line. In the Saiku Station timetable (as of 14 March 2026), every train toward Ise-Nakagawa and toward Kashikojima is a local. The Saiku Wild Iris Colony is about 2.2 km, a 30-minute walk, from Saiku or Myojo Station (town).
−0.6% since 2015
21,853 → 22,445
37.87km² of it habitable
2024
2.8 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
10.8km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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