Ureshino City

A local mason built the shrine's bridge.

Stone arch bridge, Hatten Shrine

Photo by Peka (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shiotatsu loading wharf

Trucks carrying pottery stonedrove onto a scale set in the ground.

Shiotatsu (塩田津), a nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, was a river port that used the Ariake Sea's large tidal range. Large cranes were installed in 1964 to unload pottery stone from Amakusa onto trucks. The measuring station weighed the pottery stone; the explanation the city gave the Japan Tourism Agency (2020) says it is no longer used for its original purpose.

Large cranes installed in 1964, completing the port's modernization (explanation the city gave the Japan Tourism Agency)
Trucks drove onto a scale set in the ground to be weighed (same)
Shiotatsu is a nationally designated preservation district (Saga Prefecture, Bunkazai Sanpo)

02 ／ Ureshino's Great Tea Tree

Tea is normally a shrub that stays small.This one grew into a giant.

Saga Prefecture's Bunkazai Sanpo (文化財散歩) records that a tea plant, normally small, has become a giant tree here. It is handed down that one plant of the Ureshino tea that Yoshimura Shinbei is said to have begun by sowing seed in the Keian era (1648–52) survives as this tree. Shinbei is revered as the tea's founder, and the city's site says the Chaso Matsuri (茶祖まつり) is held every April.

Said to have begun when Yoshimura Shinbei sowed seed in the Keian era (1648–52) (Saga Prefecture, Bunkazai Sanpo)
Designated a national Natural Monument on October 20, 1926 (explanation the city gave the Japan Tourism Agency)
Chaso Matsuri (茶祖まつり) every April in front of the monument at Sarayadani, Kamifudo (Ureshino city site)

03 ／ Shidayaki no Sato Museum

A factory that ran from 1914 to 1984is preserved in 23 wooden buildings.

A facility preserving a factory that made Shida ware (志田焼). It was founded in 1914 as the Marushi Seiji factory (丸志製磁工場), bought by Shida Tojiki Co. (志田陶磁器株式会社) in 1921, and stopped operating in 1984. It opened as a Shiota-town museum in 1997; the grounds of about 7,500 m² hold 23 large and small wooden buildings.

Founded in 1914 as the Marushi Seiji factory; operations stopped in 1984 (Ureshino city site)
Opened in 1997 as a Shiota-town museum (same)
23 wooden buildings on about 7,500 m² (Shidayaki no Sato Museum)

Living here

A hot-spring town and a river port became one city.

about 30,000 people

In 2006 the former towns of Ureshino and Shiota merged to form Ureshino City. Ureshino is a town of hot springs and tea; Ureshino tea is tamaryokucha, its leaves rolled round like magatama beads. Shiota lies on the old Nagasaki Highway and prospered by the water traffic of the Shiota River. The city hall has two offices, one in Ureshino and one in Shiota.

People living here: 25,848people
Area: 126.41km²
Households: 9,157households
Rent (average for rentals): 42,348yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 18 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Ureshino City in Japan33.128°N 130.060°E

Territory of Ureshino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.7km

Saga Prefecture: 鹿島市, 武雄市, 白石町
Nagasaki Prefecture: 東彼杵町, 波佐見町, 川棚町, 大村市

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

Ureshino City isthis kind of town.

01The stone spectacle bridge (眼鏡橋) at Hatten Shrine (八天神社) in Shiota, Ureshino, is an arched bridge built as the shrine's sacred bridge; a stonemason living there at the time began it in 1852 (Kaei 5) and completed it in 1854 (Kaei 7). It is a prefectural Important Cultural Property, 11.14 m long, 3.69 m wide and 4.65 m high, with balustrades 0.7 m high on both sides.
02Shiotatsu, a post town on the old Nagasaki Highway that prospered as a river port on the Shiota River, is a nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. Ureshino's Great Tea Tree is a national Natural Monument, and the Shidayaki no Sato Museum preserves a factory that made Shida ware.
03Ureshino has hot springs, including the city-owned public bath Siebold no Yu (シーボルトの湯). Ureshino tea steamed is called steamed tamaryokucha, and tea roasted in an iron pot is called pan-fired tamaryokucha.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ureshino City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗