Tamano City

A prefectural border is on the island.

Ishima, island with a border

Photo by 小池隆 (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Tsuneyama Castle Site (常山城跡)

A castle built on a hill with a fine view:its first holders, the Ueno, fell in the Tsuneyama battle.

Tsuneyama Castle, straddling Tamano and Okayama, was built in the early Sengoku period for its outstanding view. Until it was abandoned in the early Edo period, about 100 years, the Ueno clan, Mori garrison commanders and the Tomikawa, senior retainers of the Ukita, held it. The first, the Ueno, fell in the Tsuneyama battle of 1575.

About 100 years of garrisons
Tsuneyama battle, 1575 (Tensho 3)
City-designated historic site (1964)

02 ／ Hachihama's Danjiri and Ukita Kokichi (八浜のだんじりと浮田幸吉)

Among the oldest danjiri floats in the prefecture,kept in a storehouse of the townscape preservation base.

The two zelkova danjiri floats used at the Hachihama Hachiman Shrine festival carry carvings on themes from Japanese myth and the Genpei War. They are a prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, and viewing is free. Hachihama is the home of the paperhanger Ukita Kokichi, said to have flown from Kyobashi in 1785 wearing wings.

Two zelkova danjiri floats
Free viewing (closed Mondays)
Said to have flown from Kyobashi in 1785

03 ／ The Uko Ferry and Uno Port (宇高連絡船と宇野港)

The ferry that began the year the Uno Line openedwas discontinued with the Seto Ohashi Bridge.

The Uno Line opened in 1910, and the Uko ferry began service. It was discontinued in 1988 with the opening of the Seto Ohashi Bridge, but from Uno Port ferries still run about 20 minutes to Naoshima's Miyanoura Port, and boats also go to Takamatsu, Teshima and Shodoshima.

Service began 1910
Discontinued 1988
Uno Port to Miyanoura Port, about 20 min

Living here

A 200 ha hilltop park, with 150,000 flowering trees of 300 kinds.

about 60,000 people

Miyama Park makes use of the hilly natural landscape along National Route 30. Besides about 7,000 cherry trees, it has azaleas, hydrangeas, water lilies and plums, some 150,000 flowering trees of 300 kinds, and 800 free parking spaces.

People living here: 56,531people
Area: 103.44km²
Households: 24,090households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,413yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 48 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —12 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 across 1 prefectures.

Tamano City in Japan34.492°N 133.946°E

Territory of Tamano City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.7km

Okayama Prefecture: 岡山市, 倉敷市
Kagawa Prefecture: 直島町, 高松市

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

Tamano City isthis kind of town.

01Ishima is an island off Tamano, about 15 minutes by boat from Uno Port. A prefectural border lies inside it, with Tamano to the north and Naoshima Town in Kagawa to the south; its population is 54 (2020 census) and nori seaweed farming is active.
02Tsuneyama Castle Site is the ruin of a hill castle straddling Tamano and Okayama, and Hachihama keeps danjiri floats among the oldest in the prefecture. Uno Port is where boats leave for Naoshima, Teshima, Shodoshima and Takamatsu.
03Tamano lies at the base of the Kojima Peninsula, and Shibukawa Beach and Mt. Oji-ga-dake are part of Setonaikai National Park. The city-run Tamano Marine Museum (Shibukawa Marine Aquarium) was completed in 1953, and Miyama Park covers 200 ha.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tamano City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗