Kadogawa Town

Town bird gathers offshore to lay eggs.

Birojima, Japanese murrelet

Photo by Tremblay.typea (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ The Sashikurabe of the Osue Shrine festival

A 2-tonne danjiri is held highfor 20 minutes.

A festival of more than 250 years that prays for big catches. At the autumn festival of Osue Shrine (尾末神社), held on the third Sunday of November, three danjiri (だんじり) from Osue, Shimonaya and Kaminaya parade through the fishing town. In the "sashikurabe" (さしくらべ), men compete by holding up a 2-tonne danjiri for 20 minutes, the town's site says.

3 danjiri
2 tonnes, 20 minutes
Town-designated folk cultural property

02 ／ Otojima

Its curve looks like a reclining woman,and it was once called "Maiden's Island."

An uninhabited island in Kadogawa Bay, about 4km around and 80m high, designated a prefectural place of scenic beauty on 15 December 1957. The curve of its two rises looks like a woman lying down, and it was once called "Otome no Shima" (乙女の島), later becoming "Otojima" (乙島), it is also said.

About 4km around, 80m high
Prefectural scenic site, 1957-12-15
Largest cave: 63m deep

03 ／ Omikura-san

The cave mouth, containing iron sulfide,looks golden.

The bodhisattva Kokuzo (虚空蔵菩薩) is enshrined in a cave on the peninsula (遠見半島) in the town's northeast. The tourist association writes that the cave mouth contains iron sulfide, so it appears to shine gold. The town's site says that in the Keian era a priest (日向定善寺の日禮上人) installed the bodhisattva and calmed the wind with 21 days of rites, for villagers suffering poor harvests from the southeast wind.

Bodhisattva Kokuzo
Cave mouth contains iron sulfide
Visits by sea only

Living here

Kadogawa Station is the town's gateway complex.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town's site introduces Kadogawa Station on the Nippo Main Line as the town's gateway. Completed in 1994, it is a complex housing a community center and the chamber of commerce, among others. The tourist association's office is also inside the station.

People living here: 17,379people
Area: 120.4km²
Households: 6,874households
Rent (average for rentals): 31,956yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 6 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.

Kadogawa Town in Japan32.471°N 131.646°E

Territory of Kadogawa Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.3km

延岡市, 日向市, 美郷町

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

Kadogawa Town isthis kind of town.

01Birojima (枇榔島) is an uninhabited island out at sea east of Osue Fishing Port in Kadogawa. The town's site writes that the Japanese murrelet, the town bird, gathers there to lay eggs around March and April each year; the Ministry of the Environment's Kyushu office says it is thought to be one of Japan's largest breeding sites.
02At the Osue Shrine festival's sashikurabe, three districts compete by holding up their danjiri. Otojima is an uninhabited island and a prefectural scenic site, and Omikura-san is enshrined in a cave on the peninsula (遠見半島).
03Each year since fiscal 2001, sixth-graders repaint the mural on the Iorigawa (庵川) breakwater. A guidebook to the town's tidal flats was published in January 2026, and a Miyazaki University guide lists 815 fish species from Kadogawa Bay. The Iorigawa kiln site (庵川窯跡) is a town historic site.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kadogawa Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗