Kamiyama Town

A fall of two streams, male and female.

Amagoi Falls

Photo by by Reggaeman (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Sudachi of Orono

"Shall we grow sudachi?" — so said six farmersof Orono in 1955, at the start of it all.

Orono (鬼籠野) has low hills and little timber, and beyond log-grown shiitake the farmers wanted one more mainstay. The six formed a society, had scions of four strains, Kamiyama 1 to 4, prepared, and from 1957 and 1958 increased the trees. A monument to 50 years of sudachi growing stands before the JA Tokushima Kamiyama Orono sorting plant.

Six farmers formed a society in 1955 (town website)
Scions of four strains, Kamiyama 1 to 4 (town website)
An old tree said to be about 200 years old in Orono (town website)

02 ／ Kamiichinomiya Oawa Shrine

It enshrines a god said to have sown millet here,in the "Awafu no Sato" said to be the source of "Awa."

At Kamiichinomiya Oawa Shrine (上一宮大粟神社) the enshrined deity, Ōgetsuhime-no-mikoto, governs the five grains and is said to have come to Awa Province long ago from Nyū village in Ise, and to have sown and spread millet across this land. The founding date is unknown, and 14 munafuda ridge tablets survive. Jinryō has long been called "Awafu no Sato," said to be the source of the name Awa.

Founding date unknown (town website)
14 ridge tablets survive (town website)
Deity: Ōgetsuhime-no-mikoto, god of the five grains

03 ／ Fusuma paintings of the village stages

Paintings that adorned puppet-theater stagesstill number over 1,400.

From the Edo to the Meiji period, Awa puppet theater (人形浄瑠璃) was staged with zeal as entertainment for farmers. The local history museum holds 172 sets, 1,459 fusuma paintings, and at the Ono Sakurano Stage the Yorii-za (寄井座) troupe's puppet theater and fusuma mechanisms are performed every year on the second Sunday of April.

172 sets, 1,459 fusuma at the local history museum (town website)
Ono Sakurano Stage built 1951, revived 2001
Yorii-za revived after a pause (town website)

Living here

Mountains take up about 86% of the town.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

Formed in 1955 from the five villages of Ano, Orono, Kamibun-kamiyama, Shimobun-kamiyama and Jinryō, the town covers 173.30 km². It is the ninth largest of the 24 municipalities in the prefecture; mountains 300 to 1,500 m high make up about 86% of its area, and farmland and hamlets are scattered along the upper and middle Akui River. From the town office to Tokushima City Hall is about 45 minutes by car. The town flower is the ume, the tree the Kamiyama cedar, the bird the copper pheasant.

People living here: 4,647people
Area: 173.3km²
Households: 2,021households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Kamiyama Town in Japan33.967°N 134.351°E

Territory of Kamiyama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

16.7km

吉野川市, 上勝町, 美馬市, 佐那河内村, 徳島市, 那賀町, 石井町

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

Kamiyama Town isthis kind of town.

01The Amagoi Falls (雨乞の滝) in Jinryō, Kamiyama, have two streams: the male fall is 27 m high and the female fall 45 m; the town website says the falls come into view from behind a rock face at the end of a climb of about 700 m, some 20 minutes on foot from the parking lot.
02Orono has a history of sudachi growing begun by six farmers in 1955; Jinryō has Kamiichinomiya Oawa Shrine, which enshrines a god said to have sown millet, and the local history museum and Ono Sakurano Stage keep fusuma paintings of Awa puppet theater.
03Shōsan-ji, Temple 12 of the Shikoku pilgrimage, the Awaihara family house (an Important Cultural Property), the Kamiyama Artist in Residence begun in 1999 and the arrival of satellite offices are also part of the town.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kamiyama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗