Minami Town

Eight drum floats march to Ōhama Beach.

Chōsa, Hiwasa Hachiman Shrine

Photo by Kameuminami (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Ōhama Beach (大浜海岸)

A shallow sandy beach with no reefsis known as a nesting place.

A shallow sandy beach about 500 m long, with no reefs or other obstacles offshore, long known as a place where loggerhead turtles lay their eggs. Designated a national natural monument in 1967 (Shōwa 42); the designated area includes the sea as well as the sand.

National Natural Monument (designated Aug. 16, 1967)
A shallow sandy beach about 500 m long (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Protection rules May 20–Aug. 20; nesting observation suspended for now (town, June 2026)

02 ／ Ebisu Cave (恵比須洞)

Inside a rock hill opens a hole30 m across and 40 m deep.

Waves eroded the inside of a 52 m rock hill and opened a large hole. Swiftlets live there, and a walking path circles the hill to a lookout at the top. The town's cultural-property note says swiftlets in Hiwasa long nested high on the east side of the entrance.

30 m across, 40 m deep, in a rock hill 52 m high (town)
Wintering swiftlets at Yakuyoke Bridge: town-designated natural monument (July 1, 1974)

03 ／ Nishi-Yuki Uchiwa Dance (西由岐のうちわ踊り)

A festival where young men carry the mikoshiand dance, and the mikoshi enters the sea.

A folk performance handed down at the festival of Nishi-Yuki Hachiman Shrine, in which the young men who carry the mikoshi (portable shrine) dance to festival songs. The town's list of cultural properties notes a view that it is the source of the Awa Odori. The town says the mikoshi that enter the sea at Yuki's autumn festivals are rare.

Prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property (designated July 23, 1999; town's list of cultural properties)
Handed down by the Nishi-Yuki Uchiwa Dance Preservation Society
2026: Sept. 11–13 (town, Aug. 2026)

Living here

Even in midwinter, coastal waterstays above 10°C.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

A town of 140.74 km² formed in 2006 by the merger of former Hiwasa and Yuki. It faces the Pacific to the southeast. Tokushima Bus's highway bus runs from Herbis Osaka to Hiwasa (Michi-no-Eki) in about 250 minutes. Yakuō-ji (薬王寺) in Hiwasa is Temple 23 of the Shikoku pilgrimage.

People living here: 6,222people
Area: 140.74km²
Households: 2,677households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Minami Town in Japan33.735°N 134.536°E

to OsakaHighway bus250min

Travel times follow 徳島バス公式『室戸・生見・阿南－大阪線（梅田・なんば）』の時刻表（https://www.tokubus.co.jp/highwaybus/ananosaka/ とそのパンフレット https://www.tokubus.co.jp/themes/default/pdf/highwaybus/ananosaka/pamph2024.pdf。どちらも『2024年3月16日ダイヤ改正』の版）。下り（大阪梅田・なんば発→室戸・生見・橘行き）の『ハービス大阪』の行と『日和佐』の行を便ごとに引いて引き算した (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Minami Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.0km

阿南市, 那賀町, 牟岐町

Minami Town isthis kind of town.

01At the autumn festival of Hiwasa Hachiman Shrine, eight chōsa (ちょうさ, drum floats) from eight districts of the town advance to the festival shrine on Ōhama Beach on the main Sunday. The oldest, Ebisu-chō's, is recorded as built in 1795 (Kansei 7).
02Hiwasa has Yakuō-ji (薬王寺), Temple 23 of the Shikoku pilgrimage; Akamatsu has Awa banchā (阿波晩茶), a national important intangible folk cultural property, and prefecturally designated fukizutsu (吹筒) fireworks. Izari, at the eastern end, is known for its fishing-village study program.
03Former Hiwasa and Yuki merged in 2006. At Nishi-Yuki Hachiman Shrine in Yuki, the uchiwa dance is a prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property. Most of the coast is designated part of Muroto-Anan Kaigan Quasi-National Park.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Minami Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗