Bizen City

A lord's wait for wind led to a seawall.

Ōtabu Genroku Breakwater

01 ／ Takura Ushi Shrine (田倉牛神社)

Take home one of the Bizen-ware oxen offered,and return it with one more when a wish comes true.

The shrine has a torii gate but no sanctuary building; its object of worship is a stone ox 40 cm tall. Visitors offer a Bizen-ware calf, take home one already offered, and, on fulfillment of a great wish, return it together with one more. The 5th of each month is a festival day, and the New Year's festival on January 5 draws the biggest crowds.

The object of worship is a 40 cm stone ox
The 5th of each month is a festival day
Main festival every January 5

02 ／ Inbe Minami Ōgama Kiln Site

The largest of them also hasa large clay pipe at its flue.

The Inbe Minami Ōgama (伊部南大窯跡), part of the Bizen Pottery Kiln Sites, is a semi-underground climbing kiln built on a south-facing hillside. The largest kiln is nearly 50 meters long, and its flue has a large clay pipe as well as a hole dug for smoke. It was used from the Muromachi period to the end of the Edo period.

National Historic Site (designated 1959)
Semi-underground climbing kiln
Muromachi period to the end of the Edo period

03 ／ Stone Wall of Former Shizutani School

A wall of cut stone runs about 765 maround the school grounds.

A stone wall with a total length of about 765 m surrounds the school that the domain lord Ikeda Mitsumasa had Tsuda Nagatada build. Around the front it is shaped like a half-cylinder about 2.1 m high and 1.8 m wide, for some 505 m. Rhyolite blocks quarried nearby are stacked, and the back is packed with rubble.

Total length about 765 m
About 505 m around the front
Cut rhyolite stone

Living here

Hinase's Spanish mackerel was called "Uoshima sawara".

about 30,000 people

Bizen lies in the southeast of Okayama Prefecture, facing Katakami Bay, and Hinase has many islands. The city fish is the Spanish mackerel; the city museum records that in the late Edo period drift-net boats went far out for it, and Hinase boats' mackerel was called "Uoshima sawara" at the Osaka fish market and sold at high prices.

People living here: 32,320people
Area: 258.13km²
Households: 13,486households
Rent (average for rentals): 30,452yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 31 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-22 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Bizen City in Japan34.745°N 134.189°E

Territory of Bizen City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

29.9km

Okayama Prefecture: 和気町, 瀬戸内市, 美作市, 岡山市, 赤磐市
Hyogo Prefecture: 上郡町, 赤穂市, 佐用町

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

Bizen City isthis kind of town.

01Ōtabu Island is reached by ferry from Hinase Port. In 1698 (Genroku 11), Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama, ordered Tsuda Nagatada to build the Genroku Breakwater there. It is a nationally registered tangible cultural property and a component of the Japan Heritage story of the Kitamaebune ports and shipowners' settlements.
02Inbe is a production center of Bizen ware, which is certified as Japan Heritage as one of the Six Ancient Kilns. The sites of its early modern large kilns are a national historic site, the Bizen Pottery Kiln Sites, and Takura Ushi Shrine in Yoshinaga receives Bizen-ware oxen as offerings.
03In Yoshinaga, the Former Shizutani School is a special historic site with a National Treasure lecture hall, and in Mitsuishi the brick arch culverts of the Sanyo Main Line are a Civil Engineering Heritage site selected by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Bizen City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗