Miyoshi City

A vine bridge, rebuilt every 3 years.

Iya Kazurabashi (vine bridge)

Photo by ＋－ (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Ikeda's Cut Tobacco

At its peak, cut-tobacco makersare said to have numbered over 100.

From the Edo period, leaf tobacco called "Awaba" was widely grown in Miyoshi's mountain areas, and from the late Edo era into the Meiji era the cut-tobacco industry, sold as "Awa-kizami," brought prosperity. The city has designated the former Manabe house a symbol of that prosperity, and its old workshop is now a museum.

City-designated tangible cultural property (1996)
At its peak, said to be over 100 makers
Old workshop is the Awa-Ikeda Tobacco Museum

02 ／ Hashikuraji's High Lantern

The "lighthouse of the river," a tall lantern,helped boats on the Yoshino River at night.

A two-story wooden lantern of 1884 stands along the approach to Hashikuraji Temple, on a hill overlooking the Yoshino River. Before roads were built, its light helped boats travelling upstream from downstream at night.

Registered Tangible Cultural Property (2011)
Two-story wooden lantern of 1884
Agency for Cultural Affairs: a wooden lantern of unusual form

03 ／ Ochiai Village

Fields spread across the whole slope,and houses cling to it.

The village spreads along a steep mountainside from the meeting point of the Iya River and the Ochiai valley in Higashi-Iya. Stone walls, stacked stone by stone, support the fields. The oldest houses date from the 18th century, and many are from the Edo period.

Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings (selected 2005)
Height difference in the village is about 390 m
Oldest houses date from the 18th century

Living here

Nearly 90% of the city is mountains, with the Yoshino River across its middle.

about 20,000 people

At the western edge of Tokushima, the city borders Kagawa to the north, Ehime to the west and Kochi to the south. In 2006, Mino, Ikeda, Yamashiro and Ikawa towns and Nishi-Iyayama and Higashi-Iyayama villages merged. The JR Dosan and Tokushima lines run through Awa-Ikeda Station, and highway buses from Awa-Ikeda Bus Terminal take 229 minutes to Osaka and 171 minutes to Sannomiya in Kobe (Shikoku Kotsu).

People living here: 23,605people
Area: 721.42km²
Households: 10,325households
Rent (average for rentals): 29,714yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 26 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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.

Miyoshi City in Japan34.026°N 133.807°E

to OsakaHighway bus229min
to SannomiyaHighway bus171min

Travel times follow 四国交通（事業者公式 yonkoh.co.jp）の高速バス時刻表。大阪線は https://yonkoh.co.jp/highwaybus/osaka-6-1 の表（『2026年1月20日より』・運行便のみの抜粋）、神戸線は https://yonkoh.co.jp/koube-01 の『徳島にし阿波鳴門・神戸 2026年4月16日改正』の時刻表（画像） (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 10 municipalities across 3 prefectures.

Territory of Miyoshi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

36.0km

Tokushima Prefecture: 東みよし町, つるぎ町, 那賀町, 美馬市
Kochi Prefecture: 大豊町, 香美市
Kagawa Prefecture: まんのう町, 三豊市, 観音寺市
Ehime Prefecture: 四国中央市

Miyoshi City isthis kind of town.

01Miyoshi is a mountain city at the western edge of Tokushima, crossed by the Yoshino River. The Iya Kazurabashi, spanning the Iya River in Nishi-Iyayama, is 45 m long and 2 m wide and made of shirakuchi vines; it is a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property and has been maintained by being rebuilt every three years.
02Cut tobacco flourished in Ikeda, and the high lantern of Hashikuraji Temple aided the operation of boats on the Yoshino River. Ochiai Village in Higashi-Iya spreads fields and houses over a steep slope. Oboke-Koboke is a national Natural Monument and Place of Scenic Beauty, and the Jindai Odori of Nishi-Iya is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and one of the UNESCO-listed "Furyu-odori."
03Tsubojiri Station on the Dosan Line lies in a valley bottom that cars cannot approach. The official tourism site explains that Mimura Irrigation Canal in Mino was cut by Yamamoto Shindayu as a 268.5 m tunnel. The city has designated Iya's fusuma karakuri as a folk cultural property, performed in the autumn festival season. Miyoshi and Higashimiyoshi were certified as the Miyoshi Geopark in 2024.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miyoshi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗