Ebino City

Stone bridge built for a trolley track.

Megane Bridge (月の木川橋)

01 ／ Ushigoe Festival

A festival where cattle are madeto leap a 50-centimeter log pole.

The prefecture designated this festival an intangible folk cultural property in 1992. The city's list records it as held on July 28 (June 28 in the old calendar) in the grounds of Sugawara Shrine (菅原神社). A prefectural document says its start is unknown and, citing a survey from around 1941 to 1942, that 700 to 800 cattle once gathered from all directions.

Prefectural intangible folk cultural property (designated 1992)
Log pole 50 centimeters high
July 28 (June 28 in the old calendar)

02 ／ Shimauchi Tomb No. 139

From a tomb whose chamber lies underground,a large set of grave goods came out intact.

Shimauchi Tomb No. 139 is an underground chamber tomb (地下式横穴墓) of the late 5th to early 6th century, found in 2014. The city explains that a regional chieftain's tomb holding a large set of grave goods from 1,500 years ago was found in complete condition. In 2016 an ironworking tool decorated with inlay was also found, and the finds from the tomb group are a National Important Cultural Property.

Found in 2014
Late 5th to early 6th century
Finds from the tomb group: National Important Cultural Property

03 ／ Kyoho Waterway

From the intake weir to a bridge near its end,four stone works are registered cultural properties.

The weir on the upper Sendai River is the intake weir that brings water into the Kyoho Waterway (享保水路). The Taiko Bridge (太鼓橋), about 3km downstream, is a stone arch bridge 34m long that carries a 1.6m-wide channel on its top. The weir, Taiko Bridge, Aitai Bridge (靉靆橋) and a fourth bridge near the waterway's end (大平落中橋) became Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2004.

4 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties (registered 2004)
Taiko Bridge, 34m long
A 1.6m-wide channel on the top

Living here

Three towns became one city.

about 20,000 people

In 1966 the towns of Iino, Kakuto and Masaki merged to form Ebino Town, and the city was established in 1970. The city's official site lists Ebino Iino Station, Ebino Uwae Station, Ebino Station and Kyomachi Onsen Station on the Kitto Line within the city.

People living here: 17,638people
Area: 282.93km²
Households: 8,050households
Rent (average for rentals): 28,290yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 20 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 6 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Ebino City in Japan32.045°N 130.811°E

Territory of Ebino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.1km

Miyazaki Prefecture: 小林市
Kagoshima Prefecture: 湧水町, 霧島市, 伊佐市
Kumamoto Prefecture: 人吉市, あさぎり町

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

Ebino City isthis kind of town.

01Megane Bridge (月の木川橋), built in 1928, is a stone three-arch bridge that the Kumamoto Forestry Office built for a trolley track carrying timber. It is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, and today only pedestrians can cross it.
02The Ushigoe Festival is a prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property in which cattle are made to leap a 50-centimeter log pole. The finds from the Shimauchi chamber tombs are a National Important Cultural Property, and Tomb No. 139, found in 2014, was in complete condition.
03Four structures of the Kyoho Waterway, a weir and bridges, are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. The native habitat of Nokaido, a wild crabapple, is a National Natural Monument on Ebino Plateau and straddles the boundary with Kirishima City.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ebino City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗