Mihama Town

A camphor said to be saved by Kumagusu.

Hikisaku great camphor tree

Photo by helohelon (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Tea garden

A tea garden said to be sown with seedTada Motokichi brought from India is in Kurisu.

The privately owned garden in Kurisu was surveyed by the Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science and others in June 2004 and confirmed 105 plants. Records say it was sown with seed that Tada Motokichi brought from the Calcutta botanical garden in 1877 and that was distributed to Mie Prefecture.

Privately owned garden
105 plants (June 2004 survey)
Seed brought back in 1877, per records

02 ／ School building

A long school building, 62 m by 10 m,stands on a rise in a mountain hamlet.

It is a single-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a floor area of 619 square metres. Classrooms line the south side, a corridor runs along the north, and a gabled entrance sits to the west of centre. Built in 1949, it was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property on 28 October 2011.

62 m by 10 m
Built 1949
Registered 28 October 2011

03 ／ Hokkaito

At the top of a 257 m pass, a Hokkaitomarks the road to a temple.

Fuden Pass links Kurisu in Mihama with Yanokawa in Kumano's Kiwa district on the Kumano Kodo Iseji route. At the top stands a mossy Hokkaito that marks the road to a temple. The town gives the Fuden Pass section within Mihama as 637 m.

Elevation 257 m
Fuden Pass section 637 m
World Heritage component

Living here

242 minutes from Nagoya by highway bus.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

A Sanco highway bus leaves Meitetsu Bus Center in Nagoya at 17:30 and reaches the Atawa Station-mae stop at 21:32 (timetable revised 1 April 2026). The town's railway is the JR Kisei Main Line, with three stations: Atawa, Kii-Ichigi and Koshiyama.

People living here: 8,079people
Area: 88.13km²
Households: 3,711households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Mihama Town in Japan33.814°N 136.049°E

to NagoyaHighway bus242min

Travel times follow 三重交通『南紀～VISON～名古屋』（名古屋南紀高速線）の時刻表（2026年4月1日改正。https://www.sanco.co.jp/highway/nankinagoya/time ）。『名古屋 → 尾鷲・熊野・新宮』の表で、名古屋（名鉄バスセンター）発17:30（4便・見出し『特急』）→阿田和駅前（国道42号沿）着21:32。阿田和駅前に停まるのは1・3・4便（1便7:50発→12:07、3便13:30発→18:02、4便17:30発→21:32）で、2・5便は停まらない (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Mihama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.5km

熊野市, 紀宝町

Mihama Town isthis kind of town.

01The Hikisaku great camphor tree is a camphor tree the prefecture designated a natural monument in 1936; Minakata Kumagusu's survey puts its age at about 1,500 years, and when a shrine was merged and closed, a plan to fell it is said to have been stopped by Kumagusu appealing to Yanagita Kunio
02In Kurisu stands a tea garden said to be sown with seed that Tada Motokichi brought from India, and Oroshi has the former Oroshi Junior High School building, a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property
03The town's World Heritage components are the Yokogaki Pass and Fuden Pass roads and Shichiri Mihama, and a Hokkaito stands at the top of Fuden Pass; in Oroshi, from October to March, the Fuden-oroshi, mist that crosses the pass and flows down the slope, is said to occur easily on mornings after a large day-night temperature gap

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mihama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗