Nichinan City

All official clearing records are kept.

Sakamoto Tanada

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01 ／ Kurasaki Lighthouse

The tower on Oshima's cliff is unreinforcedconcrete, in a regular 12-sided plan.

A Western-style lighthouse on a cliff about 84m above sea level at the southern tip of Oshima (大島). It was completed and first lit on August 15, 1884. The tower is unreinforced concrete with a regular 12-sided plan. The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that, as the oldest Western-style lighthouse still standing in southern Kyushu, its value is high.

Height 14.1m
First lit: August 15, 1884
Regular 12-sided plan
Important Cultural Property: 2024-12-09

02 ／ Yamagariya Tunnel

The bricks are laid in the English mannerin the side walls, stretcher-style in the arch.

A brick-lined road tunnel in the Kitago (北郷) area. Construction began in 1891 and finished in 1892, with the opening of a prefectural road. The good-quality bricks were ordered from Sakai in Osaka. Inside, the height is about 4.3m, the tunnel width about 4.8m, the road width about 3.8m, and the length about 56m.

Length about 56m
Tunnel width about 4.8m
Begun 1891, finished 1892
Prefecturally designated tangible cultural property: 1998-10-22

03 ／ Taihei Odori

Celebrating peace with Satsuma, samuraiwere allowed to join the bon dance.

A bon dance handed down in the Obi (飫肥) castle town since the Edo period, danced at first by townspeople. In 1707, to celebrate a reconciliation with the Satsuma domain, the domain allowed samurai of the three castle-town districts to join; that is its origin. There are two styles, Tsuru-gumi (鶴組, of 今町) and Kame-gumi (亀組, of 本町), differing in posture height and lyrics. The Tsuru song is a boat song of the official ships used on the alternate-attendance journeys; the Kame song praises the domain's first lord.

Origin: 1707 reconciliation
Two styles: Tsuru-gumi and Kame-gumi
Prefectural intangible folk cultural property: 1962-05-15

Living here

About 86% of the area is forest.

about 50,000 people

On March 30, 2009, Nichinan merged with the towns of Kitago (北郷) and Nango (南郷) in a newly established city. The area is 535.49 square kilometers. The city's site gives about 1 hour 20 minutes on the JR Nichinan Line from Miyazaki Station to Nichinan Station.

People living here: 50,848people
Area: 535.49km²
Households: 22,071households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,985yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 43 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2009-03-30 に新設合併（北郷町・南郷町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —17 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 4 municipalities.

Nichinan City in Japan31.602°N 131.379°E

Territory of Nichinan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

32.5km

宮崎市, 三股町, 串間市, 都城市

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

Nichinan City isthis kind of town.

01Sakamoto Tanada (坂元棚田) is a terraced rice-field area in the hills of Sakatani (酒谷), selected in 2013 as a nationally Important Cultural Landscape. For its clearing, which began in Showa 3 (1928), the Miyazaki Prefectural Archives holds all the official documents on the clearing.
02In the city are Kurasaki Lighthouse (鞍埼灯台), a national Important Cultural Property at the southern tip of Oshima; Yamagariya Tunnel (山仮屋隧道), a brick-lined road tunnel in the Kitago area; and Taihei Odori (泰平踊), handed down in the Obi castle town.
03Obi is a nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings (a samurai town). The city faces the Hyuganada Sea to the east, and the coastline running from Miyazaki City to Kagoshima Prefecture is designated the Nichinan Kaigan Quasi-National Park.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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