Mugi Town

Homes ring a once-thriving bonito port.

Tebajima, a fishing village

Photo by Bakkai at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Shiratamamo Habitat at Ōike Pond (出羽島大池のシラタマモ自生地)

Lost to reclamation at Hachirōgata,Tebajima became its only habitat.

Shiratamamo (シラタマモ) belongs to a genus of the stonewort family, and this is the only species known in Japan. It was once found at Hachirōgata (八郎潟) in Akita too, but was lost to reclamation, and Tebajima (出羽島) became its only habitat. Ōike Pond has the conditions it needs: two parts seawater to one part fresh, with the sea seeping in between boulders on the shore.

National Natural Monument (designated Mar. 16, 1972)
A brackish pond of 1,250 m² in the island's southwest (town)
Growing condition: seawater 2 to fresh water 1 (Agency for Cultural Affairs)

02 ／ Matsuzaka Tunnel (松坂隧道)

Built entirely of concrete,a tunnel of Taishō 10 (1921).

A straight tunnel on the old trunk road in Utsuma (内妻), 87 m long and 5.8 m wide. It is built entirely of concrete, with a three-centered arch, and the portals and part of the lining are finished in mortar. Completed in Taishō 10 (1921), it is a nationally registered tangible cultural property.

Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure), registered Sept. 10, 2010
87 m long, 5.8 m wide (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Taishō 10 (1921)

03 ／ Matsugaiso (松ヶ磯)

An island in the sea at high tide,joined to land when the tide goes out.

A rocky shore by the sea in Komugi (古牟岐). When the tide is in it becomes an island in the sea, and when the tide goes out it is joined to land; the view changes greatly with the ceaseless rise and fall of the tide. Islands so characteristic of Shikoku form the backdrop, giving the scenery depth.

One of the Shikoku 88 Views (Shikoku Transport Bureau)
Viewed from Mollusco Mugi (モラスコむぎ), Komugi
About 10 minutes by car from JR Mugi Station (Shikoku Transport Bureau)

Living here

At Tokushima's southern tip,a seaside town on the Kuroshio.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

Mugi is a fishing town at the southern tip of Tokushima, near the center of the Muroto-Anan Quasi-National Park (室戸・阿南国定公園), where the Kuroshio flows. Tebajima (出羽島) lies offshore, and the town calls Mugi Ōshima (牟岐大島) and Tsushima (津島) meccas of rock fishing. It has a vacant-house bank.

People living here: 3,743people
Area: 56.62km²
Households: 1,718households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 7 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Mugi Town in Japan33.668°N 134.421°E

to OsakaHighway bus269min

Travel times follow 徳島バス公式『室戸・生見・阿南－大阪線（梅田・なんば）』（https://www.tokubus.co.jp/highwaybus/ananosaka/ ・最終改定日 R6.3.16＝2024-03-16 のダイヤ改正版）の時刻表。運賃表に『宍喰・海部・海部高校前・浅川・牟岐・日和佐・由岐　ハービス大阪・南海なんば大人片道5,500円（早割7・前日までは4,400円）』とあり、牟岐は大阪までの通し乗車ができる停留所 (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Mugi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.6km

海陽町, 美波町

Mugi Town isthis kind of town.

01Tebajima (出羽島) is a fishing village on an island off Mugi. After the migration that began in earnest in the late Edo period, the settlement formed around a port that used an inlet on the island's north. It prospered on fishing centered on bonito, and traditional houses from the end of the shogunate to the early Showa era survive in high density.
02The huge Porites lutea coral in the bay of Mugi Ōshima (牟岐大島) is called the "Thousand-Year Coral" (千年サンゴ). The lunch boxes of Hamasekku (浜節句), when people take food to the shore on April 3 of the new calendar, and Tebajima's local dish shima-somen (島そうめん) are both registered as "100-Year Food" by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
03The summer Himegami Festival (姫神祭) is a Mugi oddity tied to a tragic love story about the strange rock "Himegami" (姫神), and cooling fireworks close it. The town lies in Kaifu District (海部郡) and did not merge in the Heisei mergers.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mugi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗