Taku City

Taku City isthis kind of town.

1. 01The Kawauchi Residence (川打家住宅) in Itaya, Nishitaku, is a kudo-zukuri (くど造り) farmhouse whose roof wraps around in a U shape, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1974. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records that, though small, it is fine and old for this type, and that its structure and design differ from U-shaped farmhouses in Fukuoka Prefecture and elsewhere. It is estimated to date from the first half of the 18th century, and was dismantled and relocated for repair in 1998–2000.
2. 02Taku Seibyo (多久聖廟) in Higashinohara is a Confucian temple built in 1708 and an Important Cultural Property; its spring and autumn Sekisai rite is a prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. At the Sannenyama and Chaenbaru sites on the northern foot of Mt. Oninohana, the first academic survey of the Paleolithic in Kyushu took place in 1960. The Ainoura spheroidal diorite (相浦の球状閃緑岩) in Kitataku is a prefectural Natural Monument.
3. 03Kan'ōtei (寒鶯亭) in Seikei Park is a public hall that the coal-mine owner Takatori Koreyoshi built and donated in 1924, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. In Higashitaku the vertical-shaft tower of the former Mitsubishi Kogayama Coal Mine remains, and the Tōjinkoba Kiln Site (唐人古場窯跡) in Taku is said to be the first kiln built by Kanegae Sanbei, brought over at the time of Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea.