Asakuchi City

A building plaque dates a 1687 repair.

Old Takato House, Machiya Park

01 ／ Akkeshi-so Habitat (アッケシソウ自生地)

Where a plant of salty wetlands grows,Honshu's only wild site.

Akkeshi-so (アッケシソウ) is a leafless annual that turns deep crimson in autumn, so it is also called coral grass (サンゴ草). In Japan, its distribution is confirmed only in Hokkaido and Kagawa, Ehime and Okayama prefectures. The habitat on the Yorishima reclaimed land is a natural monument of Asakuchi City.

Asakuchi City natural monument
About 10 to 30 cm tall
Best around mid-October

02 ／ Nishiyama Sessai Monument (西山拙斎碑)

A monument stands for which three greatConfucian scholars wrote text, title and inscription.

Nishiyama Sessai (西山拙斎), a Confucian scholar, was born in Kamogata village in 1735 (Kyoho 20). His monument stands in the Nishiyama family graveyard, west of Kamo Shrine. The text was composed by Shibano Ritsuzan (柴野栗山), the title by Rai Shunsui (頼春水) and the inscription by Rai Kyohei (頼杏坪). The city calls it the "Monument of Three Masterpieces" (三絶の碑) and says a monument with all three scholars has no other example.

City-designated historic site
Erected through Kan Chazan (菅茶山) of Bingo-Kanabe
Mourners numbered as many as 2,000

03 ／ Ato Hakumi's Former Residence (阿藤伯海旧居)

The birthplace of a poet of Chinese verse,who left 480 poems in 大簡詩草, is a city-designated site.

The Ato family were landowners for generations, and Hakumi's grandfather Kahei opened a private school, Reinan Seisha (嶺南精舎), in the last years of the shogunate. Hakumi returned to his home in Kamogata in 1944 (Showa 19) and gave his life to poetry. The residence has a main house from the late Edo to Meiji periods, with an annex, storehouses and a gate.

Ato Hakumi (1894–1965)
480 poems in 大簡詩草
City-designated historic site

Living here

Hand-stretched somen has been made with Sugitani River water since the late Edo period.

about 30,000 people

In the Kamogata area, hand-stretched somen noodles are made with water from the Sugitani River, which rises in the Abeyama watershed, in a tradition since the late Edo period. Thicker hand-stretched udon is made by the same method.

People living here: 32,772people
Area: 66.46km²
Households: 12,615households
Rent (average for rentals): 50,365yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 17 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 4 municipalities.

Asakuchi City in Japan34.528°N 133.585°E

Territory of Asakuchi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.8km

倉敷市, 笠岡市, 里庄町, 矢掛町

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

Asakuchi City isthis kind of town.

01The former Takato House is a townhouse in Kamogata Machiya Park and a prefecturally designated Important Cultural Property of Okayama. A building plaque records a repair in 1687 (Teikyo 4). The city says the family held the village headman post almost hereditarily from the mid-Edo period, ran a soy sauce business among others, and hosted the lord of the Kamogata domain as a lodging.
02Asakuchi is made up of three areas: Konko, Kamogata and Yorishima. Konko is the birthplace of Konkokyo, and the town of Otani, its temple town, bustles at the great services each April and October. Yorishima has long been a fishing town, and the city's fish is the oyster.
03On Chikurinji-yama, straddling Kamogata and Yakage, stands the Okayama Astronomical Museum. On the same grounds are the National Astronomical Observatory's 188 cm reflecting telescope and Kyoto University's Seimei Telescope.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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