Isahaya City

No bridge was said to shame the domain.

Isahaya Megane Bridge

01 ／ Chijiwa Seizaemon's grave

Of the four boys of the Tensho Embassy,only one grave is confirmed in detail.

The grave of Chijiwa Miguel (千々石ミゲル), one of the four Tensho Embassy (天正遣欧少年使節) youths. The stone bears the posthumous names of a man and a woman, the date Kan'ei 9 (1633), and the name of Chijiwa Genbanjo (千々石玄蕃充) on its back. Four excavations by a private group found an adult man and an adult woman in two burial pits, and the person buried was shown to be Miguel.

Municipal historic site (designated December 14, 2024)
Inscribed date Kan'ei 9 (1633) (city)
Four excavations, 2014–2021 (city)

02 ／ Shiroyama warm-temperate forest

On a hill the Saigoki (西郷記) records as cleared,natural forest is thought to have returned.

A plant community covering the whole hill on the right bank of the Honmyo River (本明川), about 1 km around and about 50 m high. Saigo Hisayoshi (西郷尚善) built a castle on this hill in the medieval period, and it is now Isahaya Park. Hizen-mayumi (ヒゼンマユミ) grows more abundantly and densely here than anywhere else in Kyushu, with many large trees. Large camphor trees can also be seen.

National Natural Monument (designated June 9, 1951)
Whole hill, about 1 km around and about 50 m high (prefecture)
Standard site for Hizen-mayumi (prefecture)

03 ／ Eseru Terekarafu

The "Nakamura" on the box is thought to beNakamura Kisuke of the Saga domain's Seirenkata.

A pointer telegraph in two units, a transmitter and a receiver. Turning the transmitter's dial turns the receiver's pointer, and pressing the key rings a bell. The box inscription suggests it was devised by 1864 (Genji 1). In 1854 (Kaei 7), the lord Nabeshima Naomasa (鍋島直正) ordered the Seirenkata (精煉方) to build a telegraph. It is kept at the Isahaya Museum of Art and History (諫早市美術・歴史館).

National Important Cultural Property (designated September 4, 2015)
Box inscribed Genji 1 (1864) (national)
Ordered built in 1854 (Kaei 7) (national)

Living here

Near the center of Nagasaki Prefecture, facing three seas.

about 130,000 people

The city has three seas, the Ariake Sea, Omura Bay and Tachibana Bay, the Tara mountains, and the Honmyo River running through its center. Four national routes, JR and the Shimabara Railway run through the city, and the Nagasaki Expressway and Shimabara Road meet here.

People living here: 133,852people
Area: 341.79km²
Households: 53,235households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,750yen
Healthcare: 20 hospitals ／ 130 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —51 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Isahaya City in Japan32.843°N 130.053°E

Territory of Isahaya City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

24.8km

Nagasaki Prefecture: 大村市, 長崎市, 雲仙市, 長与町
Saga Prefecture: 太良町

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

Isahaya City isthis kind of town.

01The Isahaya Megane Bridge (諫早眼鏡橋) is a stone two-arch bridge built over the Honmyo River in 1839 (Tenpo 10), about 50 m long, now standing in Isahaya Park. Word came from the Saga domain that an envoy and an inspector would visit the Isahaya domain, and a bridge was decided on because having none would touch the domain's honor; the cost is said to have been shared in thirds by the lord, the villagers' labor and monks' alms collecting.
02For about 260 years in the Edo period, Isahaya was the Isahaya domain of the Saga domain. In Mizunoura (水ノ浦) in Takaki there is a stone-walled sukui (スクイ) fishing ground, in Moriyama the shogi grave (将棋墓) of the senryu master Nakayama Gohei (中山五平), at the temple Keiganji (慶巌寺) a stele dated Jowa 7 (1351), and in Konagai the Nagato Onizuka Kofun (長戸鬼塚古墳), with carvings that appear to be a whale and a boat. Konagai also has 16 bus stops shaped like strawberries, oranges and other fruit.
03A city near the center of Nagasaki Prefecture, facing the Ariake Sea, Omura Bay and Tachibana Bay.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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