Takeo City

Roots and trunk cannot be told apart.

Kawago Camphor, carved Kannon

01 ／ Ara-odori

The Ara-odori of Utode and Takase suggests martial forms.The Nakano one is graceful, with distinctive hand movements.

A folk performing art handed down in the former Takeo domain. Three districts, Nakano, Utode and Takase, hold national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property status. Dancers called Mossho (モッショ) and Kaki (カキ) form a circle. It is offered at each district's tutelary shrine; the tourist association calls it a Shinto rite, "not an event."

National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 1977)
Offered at each district's tutelary shrine around the autumn equinox
One account: it began as an improvised victory dance in 1530

02 ／ Nagano Wind Cave

The Nagano wind cave keeps 8 to 9 °C, even in summer.When, by whom and why it was made: the city records "unknown."

A wind cave in the mountains of Nagano, Wakagi. Its entrance is lined with stacked stone, and in summer cold air can be seen blowing out. The tourist association calls it Takeo's number-one "mystery spot," and a signboard from the Nagano community center points the way. Visitors are asked to take care when going down.

Average inside temperature is 8 to 9 °C all year (Takeo City Tourist Association)
"When, by whom and for what purpose it was made is unknown" (Takeo City)
A signboard from the Nagano community center marks the way

03 ／ Mt. Kurokami

On a mountain of huge crags, a new fern species was found.Tomitaro Makino named it after its discoverer.

Mt. Kurokami, 516 m, is also called the Hizen Yabakei for crags such as the summit rock (天童岩) and the mid-slope Female Rock (雌岩) and Male Rock (雄岩). Kaneko-shida (カネコシダ) was first found in Japan here, as a new species, in 1904 by Kaneko (金子保平); Tomitaro Makino later named it after its discoverer.

Kurokamiyama Kaneko-shida Habitat: national Natural Monument (designated 1927)
Elevation 516 m
Discovered in 1904

Living here

19.4 km east to west, 18.4 km north to south.A city of 195.40 km², with much forest and open land.

about 50,000 people

The city's statistical yearbook gives an area of 195.40 km², of which forest and open land is 85.44 km² and paddies 27.08 km² (as of April 1, 2024). Takeo City, Yamauchi Town and Kitakata Town merged into a new city on March 1, 2006. The city site gives 23 minutes by Shinkansen from Nagasaki and 65 minutes by limited express from Hakata to Takeo-Onsen Station.

People living here: 47,914people
Area: 195.4km²
Households: 17,624households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,607yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 45 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-01 に新設合併（山内町・北方町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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.

Takeo City in Japan33.195°N 130.022°E

Territory of Takeo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

19.4km

Saga Prefecture: 嬉野市, 伊万里市, 多久市, 有田町, 白石町, 大町町, 唐津市
Nagasaki Prefecture: 波佐見町

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

Takeo City isthis kind of town.

01Kawago Great Camphor (川古のクス) in Wakagi was designated a national Natural Monument in 1924; the city gives a trunk circumference of 21.0 m and a height of 25.0 m. Its roots rise above ground so root and trunk cannot be told apart. A Kannon statue once carved into the trunk peeled off in 1985 from wind, rain and insects, and is now enshrined in a hall in the Okusu park (大楠公園).
02The Romon gate and Shinkan of Takeo Onsen, completed in 1915, are national Important Cultural Properties, owned by Takeo Onsen Co., Ltd. The city presents the hot-spring town around the Romon, the Takeo Great Camphor (a city Natural Monument) and modern buildings such as Takeo City Library as the town's face.
03The mortar gun and the Takeo Nabeshima Family Western Learning Materials, which tell of the Takeo domain's history, are national Important Cultural Properties, and the Hizen pottery kiln sites, including a mound of kiln waste (土師場物原山), are a national Historic Site. The two stone gates of Enno-ji temple and a votive plaque picturing a coal mine (大副山炭鉱) are city-designated cultural properties.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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