Anan City

The shogun's kin lived in Hirajima, Awa.

Site of the Awa Kubo residence

01 ／ Wakasugiyama Cinnabar Mining Site (若杉山辰砂採掘遺跡)

From the late Yayoi to the early Kofun period,cinnabar for red pigment was mined here.

In Mizui-cho, Anan. It consists of the mining area where bedrock was broken open to extract cinnabar, and the waste dumps left by the work. The prefecture records the "oldest in Japan" adit traces, dug sideways into the bedrock, and calls it the "only one in Japan" showing how cinnabar was mined. The 124 pestles and mortars found here are Important Cultural Properties.

National Historic Site (designated October 16, 2019)
124 excavated stone tools (pestles and mortars): Important Cultural Properties
Designated area: 11,920.29 m² (prefecture)

02 ／ Ishima (伊島)

A wetland of former rice paddies was chosen asone of Japan's 500 Important Wetlands.

An island 9.5 km around, floating in the Kii Channel about 6 km offshore, east of Cape Kamoda (蒲生田岬). The city says the wetland of former paddies (野尾辺平野) shelters rare insects and was also chosen as one of the Ministry of the Environment's "Important Wetlands of Japan (500)".

9.5 km around (city)
About 6 km offshore, east of Cape Kamoda
About 30 minutes by ferry from Kotajima Port (city)

03 ／ Byodoji Road over Daikon Pass (平等寺道)

The pilgrim road over Daikon Pass, on a district border,keeps its old landscape, with stone monuments along it.

A road over Daikon Pass, on the boundary between Asebi-cho (阿瀬比町) and Aratano-cho (新野町). In June 2021 the Council for Cultural Affairs recommended adding it, as the Byodoji Road, to the national historic site "Awa Henro-michi" (Awa pilgrim paths). Byodoji's precinct, on a rise overlooking the Kuwano River, was in the same recommendation.

Section added to the national historic site "Awa Henro-michi" (recommended June 2021)
Added area: 729.23 m² (prefecture)
On the boundary of Asebi-cho and Aratano-cho

Living here

Home to the easternmost cape of Shikoku,and the grain lands at the mouth of the Naka River.

about 70,000 people

Anan faces the Kii Channel to the east, and Cape Kamoda is at the very eastern end of Shikoku. Nakagawa-cho lies on grain-growing land spread across the mouth of the Naka River, a first-class river. Kitanowaki Beach was chosen as one of Japan's Top 100 Beaches. In 2006 the city took in Nakagawa-cho and Hanoura-cho.

People living here: 69,470people
Area: 279.25km²
Households: 27,439households
Rent (average for rentals): 42,412yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-20 に編入合併（那賀川町・羽ノ浦町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —25 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.

Anan City in Japan33.922°N 134.660°E

to OsakaHighway bus183min

Travel times follow 徳島バス公式『室戸・生見・阿南－大阪線（梅田・なんば）』（最終改定日 R6.3.16・運行会社徳島バス・営業キロ／所要時間 286km／6時間53分）の下りの時刻表。大阪梅田・なんば発→室戸・生見・橘行き：ハービス大阪発 6:30・8:55・12:25・16:40・19:20 → 阿南駅着 9:33・12:08・15:33・19:53・22:23。5便のハービス大阪→阿南駅は 183・193・188・193・183 分（最短183分・最長193分）。 (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Anan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

22.2km

那賀町, 美波町, 勝浦町, 小松島市

Anan City isthis kind of town.

01The Awa Kubo (阿波公方) were a branch of the Muromachi shogun's family who lived in Hirajima, Awa (now Nakagawa-cho), from the Sengoku to the Edo period. The first, Yoshifuyu (Yoshitsuna), settled there, and his son Yoshihide became the 14th shogun. The mansion no longer stands; the Awa Kubo Folk Museum occupies the site.
02The Wakasugiyama Cinnabar Mining Site in Mizui-cho is a national historic site where cinnabar, the source of red pigment, was mined. Ishima lies in the Kii Channel east of Cape Kamoda, and the Byodoji Road over Daikon Pass is a section added to the national historic site "Awa Henro-michi".
03The marble "Kotajima" from Tsunomine-cho Higashibun was used for the spectators' stairs and other parts of the National Diet Building, and its quarry site is a city-designated historic site. Tairyuji and Byodoji are temples on the Shikoku pilgrimage, and Tsubakidomari has the site of the Mori clan's castle (松鶴城).

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Anan City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗