Hannan City

Twenty-odd inns lined the border valley.

Yamanaka post town, Kishu Road

01 ／ Stone mortar

For elderly people without teeth,a stone mortar pounded hard food soft.

A koko-usu is a small pounding mortar made of Izumi sandstone, with a pestle light enough for one hand. The guidebook Izumi Meisho Zue, published in 1796, says hard food was pounded soft in it and served to elderly people without teeth. Seven in Hannan are city-designated folk cultural properties, and the city says only some twenty are confirmed in the Sennan area.

Seven city-designated folk cultural properties
Izumi Meisho Zue, published in 1796
Some twenty confirmed in the Sennan area

02 ／ Auxiliary hall

The auxiliary hall south of the main hallis a single nagare-zukuri building.

The city says Hata Shrine is one of the ten shrines of Hine District listed in the Engishiki. The main hall stands behind the worship hall, so its whole form cannot be seen. South of it, the Massha Sanjinja main hall, the hall of three auxiliary shrines, is a single three-bay nagare-zukuri building divided inside into three chambers. Its roof was changed from cypress bark to copper sheet. It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1993.

One of ten Hine District shrines in the Engishiki
Three-bay nagare-zukuri, copper-sheet roof, one building
Important Cultural Property, 1993

03 ／ Farmhouse estate

The estate of a wealthy village-headman familyholds seven registered cultural properties.

The city says the Minami family were wealthy farmers who served as village headmen in the Edo period and as kocho, or district heads, in the Meiji era for the areas of today's Hannan and Misaki. The site measures about 70 m east-west and 50 m north-south. Seven buildings, including the main house, front gate, earthen wall and storehouses, are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties, and the front gate is a single-bay yakuimon. The garden is a Registered Monument and is normally closed to the public.

Seven Registered Tangible Cultural Properties (2005)
About 70 m east-west, 50 m north-south
Garden: Registered Monument, normally closed

Living here

From Namba, 37 minutes by limited express.

about 50,000 people

The town has three stations on the Nankai Main Line: Ozaki, Tottorinosho and Hakotsukuri. The Southern limited express stops at Ozaki Station, 37 minutes from Namba without a change (a limited-express fee is extra; the express, which needs no fee, takes 41 minutes). The city also guides "about 37 minutes by limited express". The JR Hanwa Line has Izumi-Tottori and Yamanakadani stations.

People living here: 51,254people
Area: 36.17km²
Households: 20,774households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,045yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 43 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Hannan City in Japan34.360°N 135.240°E

to OsakaNankai limited express37min

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Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Hannan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.5km

Osaka Prefecture: 泉南市, 岬町
Wakayama Prefecture: 和歌山市, 岩出市

Hannan City isthis kind of town.

01The city writes that Yamanakadani was a post town with twenty-odd inns lining the Kishu Road in the Edo period. Along the road are the site of the honjin, the lodging used by the lord of Kishu, the Tanaka residence, said to be an Edo-period building, and Sakai Bridge on the border between Izumi and Kishu
02The koko-usu is a small pounding mortar of Izumi sandstone. The city has also designated as folk cultural properties 475 tools of quarry stonemasons and 294 tools of finishing stonemasons of the Senshu stonemason trade, which worked Izumi stone
03The main hall and the three-shrine auxiliary hall of Hata Shrine were designated Important Cultural Properties in 1993. At Jinenda, the Minami residence has seven Registered Tangible Cultural Properties, including the main house, front gate and storehouses, and its garden is a Registered Monument

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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