Mima City

Five shrines sit in a stone enclosure.

Shinmei Shrine, walled sanctuary

Photo by 林健次 (CC0)

01 ／ Indigo merchant's house

Behind the indigo merchant Yoshida's house,gangi stone steps lead down to a landing.

吉田家住宅.jpg — Photo by バリーさん (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Yoshida Family Residence was the house of an indigo business founded in 1792. On a lot 11 ken wide and 30 ken deep, five buildings, including the main house and an indigo storehouse, surround a courtyard. Down the gangi (雁木) stone steps at the back is a landing, a trace of the days when the Yoshino River ran close by.

Indigo business founded in 1792
City-designated cultural property (1999)
Lot 11 ken wide, 30 ken deep
Five buildings, including the main house and indigo storehouse

02 ／ Burial mounds

In the stone chamber of the western mound,a stone shelf is set into the back wall.

Dan-no-tsukaana (段の塚穴) is the collective name of two mounds side by side east to west at the southern edge of a river terrace, Taikozuka and Tanazuka. The chamber of the eastern Taikozuka is 13.1 m long, and the stone shelf on the back wall of the western Tanazuka chamber gave the mound its name. The Agency for Cultural Affairs' designation notes that both keep a bowl-lending legend.

National Historic Site (designated 1942)
Taikozuka chamber is 13.1 m long
Tanazuka stone shelf is about 3 shaku wide (Agency for Cultural Affairs)

03 ／ Aratae cloth

The Heisei-era aratae offering beganwith preparing a field for hemp.

The Miki family, keepers of the Important Cultural Property Miki Family Residence, is said to descend directly from the Awa Imbe clan. Its old documents record aratae (麁服, cloth woven from hemp) offered at the enthronement rites from Emperor Kameyama to Emperor Komyo. For the Heisei offering, hemp that grew to about 3 m within roughly 100 days of sowing was harvested.

Miki Family Residence is a national Important Cultural Property (designated 1976)
Miki family documents: 45 items (prefectural designation)
Harvest about 100 days after sowing

Living here

Forest covers about 80% of the area.The habitable land is the plain along the Yoshino River.

about 30,000 people

Mima lies in western Tokushima Prefecture, about 40 km from the prefectural capital, Tokushima City. Its area is 367.14 km2, of which 76.22 km2, about 20.8%, is habitable. The Yoshino River flows east to west, the Anabuki River and many other rivers join it, and the plains along its banks are the main habitable land.

People living here: 28,055people
Area: 367.14km²
Households: 11,244households
Rent (average for rentals): 32,241yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 29 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Mima City in Japan34.053°N 134.170°E

to SannomiyaHighway bus133min
to OsakaHighway bus189min

Travel times follow 四国交通（事業者公式）の高速バス時刻表。神戸線（2026-04-16 改正）の下り：神戸三宮 17:05発→脇町 19:18着、19:45発→21:58着（どちらも133分）。大阪線（阪急観光バスと共同）の下り：大阪梅田（阪急三番街）7:40発→脇町 10:49着、10:00発→13:09着（どちらも189分）。市の移住サイトは『徳島自動車道・脇町ICにバス停あり（高速バス利用者用に無料駐車場完備）』と書く (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 10 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Mima City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

36.0km

Tokushima Prefecture: つるぎ町, 那賀町, 吉野川市, 阿波市, 神山町, 三好市
Kagawa Prefecture: 高松市, まんのう町, さぬき市, 三木町

Mima City isthis kind of town.

01Shinmei Shrine in Kuchiyama, Anabuki, stands at the tip of a hilltop ridge beside the Anabuki River, enclosed by a rectangular stone wall about 7 m north to south and about 22 m east to west. Five small shrines are set inside the wall, and the city designates it as a historic site under the name "an unusual shrine of stone walls". The date it was built is unknown in detail, and its present form dates from the early modern period or later.
02The Udatsu townscape in Wakimachi-Minamimachi, a road about 430 m long with 85 traditional buildings, was selected in 1988 as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. It grew as a castle town of Waki Castle and as a gathering place for indigo. The Wakimachi Theater (Odeon-za), built in 1934, also stands in the town and is open to visitors as a playhouse with a revolving stage.
03Mima is a city in western Tokushima created in 2005 by the merger of Wakimachi, Mima, Anabuki and Koyadaira. The Yoshino River flows through it from east to west, joined by the Anabuki River, whose source is Mt. Tsurugi. About 80% of the total area is forest. The city has two JR stations, Anabuki and Oshima, and all limited express trains stop at Anabuki.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mima City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗