Kitsuki City

Two slopes face each other over a valley.

Suya and Shioya slopes

Photo by Suikotei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Asada Goryu

In 1763, he predicted a solar eclipse, and it came true.The Moon now has a crater named Asada.

Asada Goryu, born the son of a Confucian scholar in the Kitsuki domain, taught himself astronomy. In 1763 he predicted a solar eclipse not listed in the official calendar, and it came true. At 39 he moved to Osaka, opened the private academy Senjikan, and studied astronomy and anatomy, leaving behind anatomical drawings. The cartographer Ino Tadataka was a disciple of his disciples.

1763: predicted and matched an eclipse
Opened the academy Senjikan in Osaka
The Moon has a crater named Asada

02 ／ Kitadai samurai houses

On the Kitadai bluff overlooking the valley,the Ohara and Isoya houses remain.

The Ohara House has the finest garden among Kitsuki's samurai houses, and is the former estate of steward Ohara Bunzo, named in the domain's Kaei-era (1848-53) roster. The Isoya House was absorbed into the domain's official lodge Rakujutei after the great fire of 1800 (Kansei era), and later became the residence of Kato Yogoemon.

Ohara House: Kitsuki's finest garden
Isoya House: once part of the lodge Rakujutei
Both on Kitadai samurai-house street

03 ／ Yamaga's stone bath

A stone bath survives at a lost temple's site,turned into a steam room on its upper floor.

Yamaga's stone bath (Ishiburo) remains on the site of Senpuku-ji, a temple opened in the Yoro era (Nara period) and abandoned in the early Meiji era. Fire on the ground floor heated the stone floor above; herbs spread on the upper floor were doused with water to make a steam room used to warm and treat the body. It was designated a National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 1965.

1965: National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
Two storeys: fire below, steam above
Managed by the Senpuku-ji parish group

Living here

Facing the Iyo-nada Sea to the east, Beppu Bay to the south.

about 30,000 people

The city sits at the southern base of the Kunisaki Peninsula, facing the Iyo-nada Sea to the east and Beppu Bay to the south. The gateway is JR Kitsuki Station, about 10 minutes by bus from the castle town and City Hall. Kitsuki, Ota Village and Yamaga Town merged to form the present city in 2005; in the Edo period this was the Kitsuki domain of the Nomi-Matsudaira clan, rated at 32,000 koku.

People living here: 27,999people
Area: 280.08km²
Households: 12,028households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,589yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 24 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に新設合併（大田村・山香町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Kitsuki City in Japan33.417°N 131.616°E

Territory of Kitsuki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.6km

日出町, 宇佐市, 国東市, 豊後高田市

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

Kitsuki City isthis kind of town.

01Facing each other across a valley, Suya-no-Saka and Shioya-no-Saka slopes still show the shape of old Kitsuki: samurai houses on the north and south bluffs, merchants in the valley between.
02Asada Goryu, born into the Kitsuki domain, predicted a solar eclipse and it came true. A crater on the Moon now carries his name, Asada.
03On the Kitadai bluff, the Ohara and Isoya houses preserve the look of a samurai residence, while at a lost temple's site in Yamaga, a stone bath once used to warm and treat the body still stands.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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