Sanagochi Village

From a cattle pasture, all of Shikoku.

Okawara Kogen, Shikoku 88 Views

Photo by akiakane (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Storage Mikan Warehouses (貯蔵みかんの蔵)

Beneath the warehouses where mikan rest,long ventilation shafts are dug.

Most of the village's mikan are storage mikan: not shipped right after harvest, they rest for some months in each farm's warehouse to build sweetness. The warehouses have long ventilation shafts dug underground so fresh air keeps moving. Shipping runs from February to late March. According to the village history, by about 1904 the whole village was growing them.

Storage mikan shipped from February to late March
Long underground ventilation shafts (village official site)
Grown village-wide by about 1904 (per the village history)

02 ／ Mimatsuhiko Shrine and Negozuka Tumulus (御間都比古神社と根郷塚古墳)

The shrine of the village is saidto honor the ancestor of the Naga governors.

According to sources such as the Kokuzo-hongi (国造本紀), this shrine is said to honor the ancestor of the person appointed governor (kokuzo) of Naga province in the reign of Emperor Seimu. Nearby, Negozuka Tumulus (also called Anki Tumulus) is the village's only tumulus, a horizontal-entrance tomb of stacked stone about 2 m high. Thought to date to about the 6th century, it holds Buddhist statues in its stone chamber.

Governor of Naga province in the reign of Emperor Seimu (Kokuzo-hongi)
Negozuka Tumulus is the village's only tumulus
Tumulus thought to date to about the 6th century

03 ／ Source of the Sonose River (園瀬川の水源)

Near the summit of Mt. Asahigamaru,spring water flows without ceasing.

The Sonose River (園瀬川) is a clear stream flowing 25.5 km from the village into Tokushima City, to where it joins the Shinmachi River. Its source is near the summit of Mt. Asahigamaru (旭ヶ丸), at a spot called Mizuhanome Shrine (水波能売神社), where a torii and small shrine stand and spring water runs out beside them. It takes in the Saga River at Takatsui, then joins the Shinmachi River in Tokushima City.

25.5 km to the Shinmachi River
Source near the summit of Mt. Asahigamaru
Joined by the Saga River at Takatsui

Living here

Every hamlet has a jokai,forty-seven in all.

about 2,000 people
Rural district town

Sanagochi belongs to Myodo District and is the only village in Tokushima Prefecture. The jokai (常会) is a neighborhood association said to descend from the five-household groups of the domain era; a monthly meeting shares news from the administration, the farm cooperative and local events. Route 438's improvement made commuting to Tokushima City easier, and part-time farming households grew.

People living here: 2,058people
Area: 42.28km²
Households: 771households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Sanagochi Village in Japan33.993°N 134.453°E

Territory of Sanagochi Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.9km

徳島市, 神山町, 勝浦町, 上勝町

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

Sanagochi Village isthis kind of town.

01Okawara Kogen (大川原高原) is a plateau in the south of the village. One of the Shikoku 88 Views, it looks out over the Kii Channel, the Tokushima Plain and the Asan Mountains, terrain that makes up Shikoku. Cattle are put out to graze on its grassland, and about 30,000 hydrangeas bloom from late June to mid-July.
02Storage mikan are rested for some months in each farm's warehouse before shipping. Mimatsuhiko Shrine is said to honor the ancestor of the Naga governors, and the Sonose River flows from near the summit of Mt. Asahigamaru.
03The village tree is the sudachi, and the village says the Awa-shi gazetteer suggests sudachi and other crops were produced in the Edo period. Every hamlet has a jokai, forty-seven in all, and Route 438's improvement made commuting to Tokushima City easier.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Sanagochi Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗