Kobayashi City

A smitten dragon is said to have landed.

Inyoseki, Hamanose River rocks

01 ／ Oyodokawagoromo Habitat

An endemic found only in the Iwase Riverwas described as new in 1999.

A waterweed of the Podostemaceae family, it is a seed plant yet looks like moss or algae. Its roots become flat thalli that spread over the rock surface. About 3.5km from just below the Old Iwase Bridge (旧岩瀬橋), with some sections excluded, is a national natural monument.

National natural monument: 2016-03-01
Confirmed in 1928, described as new in 1999
Designated area: about 3.5km

02 ／ Hashimitsu Bridge and Ishigori Bridge

In 1943, a bridge used bamboo instead of rebar.The same year, Ishigori Bridge became stone.

Hashimitsu Bridge (橋満橋) was built by volunteer work, with local people buying the materials. As rebar was unobtainable in wartime, bamboo-reinforced concrete and stone were used. Ishigori Bridge (石氷橋), a wooden bridge of 1892, became a two-arch stone bridge in 1943 and is also called the spectacles bridge.

Hashimitsu Bridge: 1943
Bamboo-reinforced concrete and stone
Ishigori Bridge: two arches

03 ／ Suki-no-taki (Mamako Falls)

After Ayaminami Dam was completed in 1958,the falls' drop became nearly half.

Suki-no-taki (須木の滝), also called Mamako Falls, was designated a prefectural place of scenic beauty in 1933. It once dropped 41m into a plunge pool 22m deep, but the Ayaminami Dam (綾南ダム) created Lake Ono (小野湖), the water rose, and the drop is now nearly half. At the lake bottom lay the Ono (小野) district, whose residents had to relocate.

Once 41m high, plunge pool 22m deep
Ayaminami Dam completed 1958
Prefectural scenic site: 1933

Living here

The railway the city's site lists is the JR Kitto Line.

about 40,000 people

For main public transport, the city's site lists the JR Kitto Line (timetables for Kobayashi Station and Nishi Kobayashi Station), Miyazaki Kotsu route buses, and the city's community bus "Ourai." The city was formed in March 2006 by a merger with Suki Village, and absorbed Nojiri Town in March 2010.

People living here: 43,670people
Area: 562.95km²
Households: 19,162households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,653yen
Healthcare: 11 hospitals ／ 27 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-20 に新設合併（須木村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。2010-03-23 に編入合併（野尻町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —19 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 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Kobayashi City in Japan31.997°N 130.973°E

Territory of Kobayashi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

32.0km

Miyazaki Prefecture: 高原町, えびの市, 綾町, 都城市, 西米良村, 宮崎市
Kumamoto Prefecture: 多良木町, あさぎり町
Kagoshima Prefecture: 霧島市

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

Kobayashi City isthis kind of town.

01Inyoseki (陰陽石) is a pair of strange rocks in the Hamanose River. The city's site says Kirishima volcanic-belt lava formed them: the male rock is 17.5m tall, the female rock 5.5m around. A legend says a dragon rising to heaven was smitten by a beauty and came down.
02About 3.5km of the Iwase River (with some sections excluded) is a national natural monument, the habitat of Oyodokawagoromo (オオヨドカワゴロモ). The city-designated Hashimitsu Bridge was built in 1943, and the city-designated Ishigori Bridge became a stone bridge in the same year.
03Suki-no-taki is a prefectural scenic site whose drop became nearly half because of Ayaminami Dam. The city lists Inyoseki, Sannomiya Gorge (三之宮峡) and Suki-no-taki among its Kirishima Geopark highlights, and writes that about 90 Tanokami (田の神) stone figures remain in the city.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kobayashi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗