Togitsu Town

Rock on rock, poised yet never falling.

Tsugiishi Bozu, Sabakusarakashi

Photo by 時津町 (CC0)

01 ／ Chaya (Honjin)

A teahouse run by the Omura domain,a rest stop for the magistrate and daimyo.

This inn on the Togitsu Kaido (時津街道) was a resting place for the Nagasaki magistrate and daimyo from neighbouring domains. Run by the Omura domain, it still has its gate and tatami rooms, and became a town cultural property in 1995. Every Saturday and Sunday, visitors can tour the rooms and garden free of charge.

Run by the Omura domain
Town cultural property, 1995 (Heisei 7)
Free public opening, every weekend

02 ／ Tomb of Nagasaki Jinzaemon

A descendant raised the tombstone in 1702,and the inscription credits local repairs.

Nagasaki Jinzaemon Sumikage held the villages of Nagasaki and Togitsu when Nagasaki port opened in 1571, and is called the founder of its opening. His tomb, a prefectural historic site, lies at the eastern foot of a castle-site hill (寺倉城山) in a district of the town (小島田). It is a joint tomb for him and his wife, raised in 1702 by a descendant (大村内匠助長頼) and repaired by people of an old district (山陰).

1966: Prefectural historic site
1571: Nagasaki port opens
1702: tombstone erected

03 ／ Togitsu Kaido

Along the Togitsu Kaido, a mooring stoneand a slope said to be named for whipping.

The town says the "Ichiba" area on the Togitsu Kaido was once shoreline, with a "tomozuna-ishi" (mooring stone, ともづな石) for tying up boats. The stone was removed when the road was widened and is kept today in a planting bed below Hachiman Shrine, the town says. Uchizaka, the slope toward Nagasaki, is said to be named for the whipping of oxen and horses that balked at it.

Mooring stone kept below Hachiman Shrine
Uchizaka: the slope where animals were whipped

Living here

An L-shaped town at the southern end of Omura Bay.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

Togitsu sits where northern Nagasaki city meets the Nishisonogi Peninsula, with the southern tip of Omura Bay to the north, Nagayo to the east and Nagasaki city to the west and south. Its outline is an L running northwest to southeast, about 7 km east to west and 9 km north to south, with an area of 20.94 km². There is no railway station in town; the town says it takes about 30 minutes by Nagasaki Bus from JR Nagasaki Station to the "Togitsu" stop, then about 2 minutes on foot to the town office.

People living here: 29,339people
Area: 20.94km²
Households: 11,435households
Rent (average for rentals): 57,062yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 30 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

Togitsu Town in Japan32.829°N 129.849°E

Territory of Togitsu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.1km

長崎市, 長与町

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

Togitsu Town isthis kind of town.

01Tsugiishi Bozu (継石坊主), also called Sabakusarakashi Rock, is a strange rock standing on a hillside along Route 206. The town calls it Togitsu's symbol and tells of a fish seller who waited for it to fall until his fish rotted, along with a poem by the kyoka poet Ota Nanpo (大田南畝) from 1805.
02The Chaya (Honjin), an inn on the Togitsu Kaido, still has its gate and rooms, and the tomb of Nagasaki Jinzaemon Sumikage, lord when Nagasaki port opened, is a prefectural historic site. A mooring stone and the name of a slope where animals were whipped survive along the road.
03A monument at the road's starting wharf marks the landing of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, but the landing place could be the Togitsu wharf, the Hamada wharf or Kitadomari, and is not known. Four districts, Hamada (浜田), Noda (野田), Sazoko (左底) and Nishi-Togitsu (西時津), each have their own folk performing art.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Togitsu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗