Tsukumi City

3- and 4-storey houses crowd a hillside.

Hotojima

Photo by Kazuyuki N (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Otomo Sorin's Grave

Otomo Sorin died in exile, right here.Graves from different eras stand together.

In 1583, the warlord Otomo Sorin retired to Tentoku-ji (天徳寺) here, hoping to build an ideal Christian domain, but died in 1587 at 58 with that dream unfinished. Among the cedars stand two graves: one built by descendants of his former retainers in the Edo period, and a Christian-style memorial designed in 1977 by the architect Isozaki Arata (磯崎新). The site is a city historic landmark.

1587: died, aged 58
1996: designated city historic landmark
Cedars over 100 years old

02 ／ Cement Town

An address that reads "Cement Town"—only here, and one other town in Japan.

"Cement Town" (セメント町), created in a 1967 address reform, is one of only two place names of its kind in Japan; the other is in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi. The nearby limestone quarry covers about 2.1 million square metres, said to be about 45 times the area of the Tokyo Dome.

1967: named in an address reform
1 of only 2 such names nationwide
Quarry: about 45 Tokyo Domes

03 ／ Ozaki Komikan Ancestral Tree

A tree said to be planted in 740still yields 1 to 1.5 tonnes a year.

The mandarin tree is said to have been planted in 740 by Nito Niza'emon, then moved to its current site in 1157. Toppled by a storm in 1612, it survived through layering, and was designated a National Natural Monument in 1937. Nicknamed the "800-year tree," it still bears 1 to 1.5 tonnes of fruit a year, sold as "800-year-old mikan."

1937: National Natural Monument
Nicknamed the "800-year tree"
1–1.5 tonnes harvested a year

Living here

Ferries leave Tsukumi Port for two inhabited islands.

about 20,000 people

The JR Nippo Main Line runs north–south through this limestone and cement town. From Tsukumi Station, the gateway, it's about a 7-minute walk to city hall. Ferries reach the inhabited islands of Hotojima in about 25 minutes and Mukujima in about 30.

People living here: 16,100people
Area: 79.48km²
Households: 6,995households
Rent (average for rentals): 28,312yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Tsukumi City in Japan33.072°N 131.861°E

Territory of Tsukumi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.8km

佐伯市, 臼杵市

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

Tsukumi City isthis kind of town.

01Hotojima, a 25-minute boat ride from Tsukumi Port, is a fishing village of three- and four-storey houses packed onto a hillside, long a base for offshore tuna fishing since the Meiji era; nearby, farmers now raise fully farmed bluefin tuna on formulated feed alone
02The warlord Otomo Sorin retired to Tsukumi and died here in 1587 at 58; among the cedars of his gravesite stand both an Edo-period tomb and a Christian-style memorial
03"Cement Town" is one of only two such addresses in Japan, and Tsukumi has one of them; the Ozaki Komikan Ancestral Tree, nicknamed the "800-year tree," is a National Natural Monument

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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