Toin Town

Cherry flowers with one pistil or two.

Toin Yaeyamazakura

Photo by ふむ (CC BY-SA 2.1 jp)

01 ／ Person

A district deputy's grandson took partin compiling the Shoku Nihon Koki.

His original clan name was Inabe no Miyatsuko. His grandfather was a shoryo (deputy head) of Inabe District, and his father ended his career as a senior clerk of Suo Province. He entered office through the state university, became a Doctor of Letters, and rose to Sangi (state councillor) of Junior Third Rank. He took part in compiling the Shoku Nihon Koki and was called “a learned scholar of the court” (Heibonsha World Encyclopedia).

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Grandfather: deputy head of Inabe District
Sangi, Junior Third Rank

02 ／ Kabuki

Where a kabuki star was born, Nagafuka,a child Benkei statue stands.

Matsumoto Koshiro VII passed on the art of Ichikawa Danjuro IX and was praised as peerless as Benkei in Kanjincho. In his birthplace Nagafuka, Kabuki Park was made to mark the 30th anniversary of the town's founding, and it holds a statue of the child Benkei. The town also stages a children's kabuki performance every year.

Birthplace: Nagafuka
Made for the town's 30th anniversary
Children's kabuki every year

03 ／ Maple

Where a Buddha image is said to haverisen from a pond, a maple never turns red.

In the Genroku era (1688-1711), clear spring water is said to have welled up behind Tenjin in Sekoizumi, and a single Buddha image was found shining at the bottom. Villagers dredged the pond every April 8 and called it Kannon Pond. The pond is now filled in, and a maple with a trunk about 3 m thick and about 10 m tall remains. It does not turn red.

Genroku era (1688-1711)
Trunk about 3 m thick
Does not turn red

Living here

Two stations on the Hokusei Line, which links Nishi-Kuwana and Ageki.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

The only railway in town is the Sangi Railway Hokusei Line, with two stations, Toin and Anoh. Chubu Park, in the middle of town, is close to Toin Station and the town hall. The town hall stands at 1600 Oaza Yamada.

People living here: 25,784people
Area: 22.68km²
Households: 9,539households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,796yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Toin Town in Japan35.074°N 136.584°E

Territory of Toin Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.5km

桑名市, いなべ市, 四日市市

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

Toin Town isthis kind of town.

01Toin Yaeyamazakura grows in Shiroyama and is a mountain cherry variety. It mostly has one pistil, with some flowers having two, and was identified as Konohanazakura. It is listed among the Mie Prefecture's 100 Notable Trees and is a town natural monument (1996); the town designated the Second Tree's habitat in 1998
02Haruzumi no Yoshitada was from Inabe District, and his original clan name was Inabe no Miyatsuko. The town's tourism site introduces Inabe Shrine as enshrining "Lord Haruzumi no Yoshitada." Its Oyashiro Festival is held every April and is a Mie Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The lion dance of Mikuri Shinmei Shrine in Roppano Shinden is the town's No. 1 Intangible Folk Cultural Property
03Kabuki Park in Nagafuka was made in the birthplace of Matsumoto Koshiro VII, and the Kannon maple in Sekoizumi is a town-designated natural monument. The Hokusei Line has Toin and Anoh stations in town, and Chubu Park is close to Toin Station and the town hall

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

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