Matsue City

Its pillars are thick for its size.

Kamosu Shrine main hall

Photo by Naokijp (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Miho Shrine and Aoishidatami Street

Two shrine halls joined together,a blue stone road leads to them.

美保神社（松江市美保関町）.jpg — Photo by Kamdoomi (CC0)

Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki enshrines Kotoshironushi (Ebisu) and Mihotsuhime, and is said to be the head shrine of over 3,000 Ebisu shrines nationwide. Its hall, rebuilt in 1813, joins two taisha-zukuri structures in a style called "Miho-zukuri." Aoishidatami Street, an Edo-period approach linking the shrine to Butsudanji Temple, turns a deeper blue when wet.

Said to be head shrine of 3,000+ Ebisu shrines nationwide
Hall rebuilt in 1813, joining two structures (Miho-zukuri)
Aoishidatami Street turns a deeper blue when wet

02 ／ Izumo Tamatsukuri Ruins

At the foot of Mt. Kasen,some 30 bead-making workshops.

At the southwest foot of Mt. Kasen in Tamayu, Matsue, artisans shaped magatama and tube beads from jasper, agate, and quartz from the early Kofun period through the Heian period. About 30 workshop remains have been found at the Izumo Tamatsukuri ruins, designated a national historic site in 1922. The adjacent museum displays the beads and whetstones unearthed here.

National historic site since October 12, 1922
About 30 bead-workshop remains (early Kofun–Heian periods)
Beads shaped from jasper, agate, and quartz

03 ／ Daikonshima Peonies

Nine in ten peonies grown in Japancome from this island's fields.

On Daikonshima in Yatsuka, Matsue, peony cultivation grew into an industry from around 1955, and the island now accounts for about 90% of Japan's domestic peony production. Plants grown here are shipped as cut flowers and saplings, and exported abroad to markets such as the Netherlands and the United States.

About 90% of Japan's domestic peony output (2022)
Cultivation grew into an industry from around 1955
Exported to the Netherlands, the US, Canada, and elsewhere

Living here

Between two lakes, Shinji and Nakaumi.

about 200,000 people

Matsue is a castle town shaped by water: boat tours on the moat around Matsue Castle, freshwater clams from Lake Shinji, and the hot springs of Tamatsukuri. Its former towns and villages — Kamosu, the port of Mihonoseki, Tamayu, Shinji, Yatsuka — each keep their own character.

People living here: 203,616people
Area: 572.96km²
Households: 85,593households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,706yen
Healthcare: 11 hospitals ／ 220 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —68 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Matsue City in Japan35.468°N 133.048°E

to TokyoSleeper ltd. exp. Sunrise Izumo727min
to OsakaHighway bus275min

Travel times follow JR西日本公式「JRおでかけネット」のサンライズ瀬戸・サンライズ出雲の時刻表PDF（jikokuhyo.pdf）。下り5031M：東京発21:26→松江着9:33。中国JRバス公式「グラン昼特急出雲号」時刻表（大阪駅JR高速バスターミナル発→松江駅着）。7:10発→11:45着など4便。いずれも乗り換えなしで市内の駅に着く (checked 2026-09-26). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Matsue City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

30.7km

Shimane Prefecture: 雲南市, 安来市, 出雲市
Tottori Prefecture: 境港市

Matsue City isthis kind of town.

01The main hall of Kamosu Shrine in Ōba, Matsue, resembles Izumo Taisha's taisha-zukuri style, but with a longer ridge beam and pillars that are thick for its size — thought to preserve an older form of the style.
02Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki, said to be the head shrine of Japan's Ebisu shrines, stands at the end of Aoishidatami Street, a stone road that turns blue in the rain.
03In Tamayu, magatama beads were once shaped at the Izumo Tamatsukuri ruins, and in Yatsuka, the peony fields of Daikonshima now grow about 90% of Japan's peonies.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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