Akaiwa City

A schoolhouse moved at about half size.

Yoshii Museum, old Nibori School

Photo by Masarinrin (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kumayama Site (熊山遺跡)

On Mount Kumayama's summit standsa square, three-tiered stone structure.

The Kumayama massif holds 33 stone structures, and the largest is the Kumayama Site, a National Historic Site. Niches (仏龕) open on all four sides of the second tier, and a pit at the top held a ceramic cylindrical vessel among other things; the vessel is now at Tenri Sankokan in Nara. It is thought to be a Buddhist pagoda of the Nara period.

33 stone structures
National Historic Site (designated 1956)
Near the summit, 508 m

02 ／ Tawara Canal Aqueduct and Hyakken Stone Channel (田原用水水路橋と百間の石樋)

A stone aqueduct carried the Tawara Canalacross the Onoda River and westward.

In the Genroku era, under Tsuda Nagatada, a senior retainer of the Okayama domain, a stone aqueduct was planned over the Onoda River to extend the Tawara Canal west. The aqueduct (Ishi no Kakehi, 石の懸樋) is 12.96 m long and now stands restored in a memorial park. Downstream, the Hyakken Stone Channel (百間の石樋) is a stretch cut through rock about 180 m long to carry water.

Aqueduct: 12.96 m long, 3.25 m high
Hyakken Stone Channel: about 180 m (90 ken)
Prefectural designation

03 ／ Ryogusan Tumulus (両宮山古墳)

From the foot of the mound, neitherfukiishi stones nor haniwa have been found.

This keyhole-shaped tumulus of the late 5th century has a mound 206 m long. It is ringed by a double moat, and its total length along the main axis is 349 m. The top of the mound has not been surveyed, and the city says the final stage of construction may not have been carried out. The moat was reworked and reused as an irrigation pond in the Edo period.

Mound length: 206 m
Double moat, 349 m in total length
National Historic Site (designated 1927)

Living here

Beside large housing estates, peaches and grapes are grown.

about 40,000 people

Akaiwa borders Okayama City, and large housing estates have been developed. The main crops are rice, peaches, grapes and soybeans, and the peach is the city flower. Development of the Sanyo housing estate brought large-scale excavations of Yayoi settlement sites and about 40 burial mounds.

People living here: 42,661people
Area: 209.36km²
Households: 16,439households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,928yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 34 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Akaiwa City in Japan34.755°N 134.019°E

Territory of Akaiwa City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

25.7km

岡山市, 和気町, 久米南町, 美咲町, 備前市

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

Akaiwa City isthis kind of town.

01The Yoshii Local History Museum (吉井郷土資料館) is the main building of the Nibori Ordinary Higher Elementary School, built in 1927, reduced to about half its size and moved and restored in Susai in 1984. It is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan.
02Kumayama has a stone structure thought to be a Nara-period pagoda, and the Tawara Canal was extended west with a stone aqueduct called Ishi no Kakehi and the Hyakken Stone Channel. Ryogusan Tumulus is a keyhole-shaped tumulus of the late 5th century with a double moat.
03Matsuki is the birthplace of the poet Nagase Kiyoko (永瀬清子), and the Kumayama Community Center has an exhibition room for her. Isonokami Futsumitama Shrine (石上布都魂神社) in Isonokami has as its sacred object what is said to be the sword Susanoo used to slay a great serpent, and the peach is a well-known specialty of the city.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Akaiwa City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗