Shimabara City

Four wash sections, used top to bottom.

Hamanokawa Spring, washing place

01 ／ Herb Garden Site

The domain hired a disciple of Siebold as physicianand opened a herb garden at the foot of Mt. Mayuyama.

In 1842, Matsudaira Tadasei, lord of the Shimabara Domain, hired Kako Saiichiro (賀来佐一郎), a physician from Buzen and a disciple of Siebold, as domain physician. Together with the retainer Iijima Yoshikado (飯島義角), work began in 1846 at the foot of Mt. Mayuyama (眉山), and the garden was completed in 1853. Stone walls enclose its roughly 10,000 square metres on three sides.

1929: designated a national historic site
1853: garden completed
About 10,000 m², walled on three sides

02 ／ Samurai Residences

A lower-rank samurai's house keeps a gatesaid to have been specially allowed by the lord.

West of the outer ward of Shimabara Castle, a district of houses was built for samurai of 70 koku or less. A channel runs down the middle of the street, and the domain ordered plum, persimmon and citrus trees planted in each plot. The Yamamoto family, hereditary gunnery instructors on 17 koku and two rations, are said to have been specially granted this gate by the lord.

District for samurai of 70 koku or less
Fruit trees planted by domain order
Yamamoto family: 17 koku, two rations

03 ／ Omisaki Station

On the Shimabara Railway, Omisaki Station (大三東駅)has the Ariake Sea right beside the platform.

Omisaki Station (大三東駅) is in Ariake (有明町), Shimabara, and the city describes it as having the sea right beside the platform. It is about 10 minutes by train from Shimabara Station. At Ono-hama (大野浜) in the same district stands the Bora-zuka (ボラ塚), a memorial mound for the mullet that swarmed into a stone tidal weir (石干見, sukui).

About 10 min from Shimabara Station
The peninsula's only railway
Sea right beside the platform

Living here

A walk from the station to the castle and samurai houses.

about 40,000 people

Shimabara Station on the Shimabara Railway is the city's main station; Shimabara Castle is about a 10-minute walk and the samurai residences about 15. In Ariake, a wind-warding festival is held around the 210th day after the start of spring, and at shrines in Omisaki a tengu-masked figure called Hanadago chases people to smear them with soot (へグロ).

People living here: 43,338people
Area: 82.96km²
Households: 17,095households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,305yen
Healthcare: 9 hospitals ／ 43 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-01-01 に編入合併（有明町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —24 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 2 municipalities.

Shimabara City in Japan32.788°N 130.370°E

Territory of Shimabara City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.5km

雲仙市, 南島原市

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

Shimabara City isthis kind of town.

01Hamanokawa Spring, one of the Shimabara springs, has a washing place in four sections, used in order from the top by purpose. The Shimabara springs were selected as one of Japan's 100 Exemplary Waters in 1985
02At the end of the Edo period the domain hired a disciple of Siebold and opened a herb garden, now a national historic site; Shimabara Castle site was designated a national historic site in March 2025
03In Omisaki and Yue in Ariake, nearly every household once wove Shimabara cotton by hand, and at Omisaki Station the sea lies right beside the platform

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shimabara City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗