Yoshinogawa City

About 10°C in summer, 20°C+ in winter.

Egawa water temperature anomaly

Photo by Reggaeman (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Nishi-Oe Station and Egawa Amusement Park (西麻植駅と江川遊園地)

Indigo merchants paid mostof the station's cost.

Nishi-Oe Station was opened with most of the cost borne by Kudo Gensuke and Kudo Torakichi, indigo growers and merchants. When ridership fell, Torakichi's son Takasuke gave 20,000 tsubo of his land and founded Egawa Amusement Park in 1931. It closed in 2011.

Most of the cost borne by Kudo Gensuke and Kudo Torakichi
20,000 tsubo of land provided (Kudo Takasuke)
Egawa Amusement Park: founded 1931, closed 2011

02 ／ Takagai Stone Walls (高開の石積み)

About 30 tiers of stone wallscover the whole slope.

In Takagai hamlet, called "Sora" and set on a plateau about 360 m above sea level in Ogami, Misato, stone walls rise across a slope about 150 m high and 300 m wide. The Ministry of the Environment lists the district as an "Important Satoyama", and it was also chosen as one of "100 Villages of Japan" in 2009.

About 30 tiers of stone walls (about 150 m high, 300 m wide)
Ministry of the Environment "Important Satoyama": Ogami-Takagai district
Chosen as one of "100 Villages of Japan" in 2009

03 ／ Iwanohana Lookout (岩の鼻展望台)

From a bluestone crag on Kojoyama'swest end, the Yoshino River below.

It stands on a huge bluestone crag at the west end of Kojoyama, where Kawashima Castle stood. It looks over the Yoshino River and Zennyujijima (善入寺島), an island that flourished as a major indigo-growing area. A poem by Ito Chinzan on a monument here describes a thousand sailboats passing (modern translation).

Component of Japan Heritage "Ai no Furusato Awa" (added December 25, 2025)
Zennyujijima: 506 households, 3,000 people lived there until 1916
Kanshi poem monument by Ito Chinzan on Kojoyama

Living here

Ringed by the Yoshino River and mountains,four towns merged in 2004.

about 40,000 people

Area 144.14 km². The prefecture's migration site describes the former Kamojima as a commercial town, Kawashima as a castle town, Yamakawa as a nature-rich town nurtured by Mt. Kochi, and Misato as a mountain village keeping Japan's original scenery.

People living here: 38,772people
Area: 144.14km²
Households: 15,488households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,524yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 47 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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 5 municipalities.

Yoshinogawa City in Japan34.066°N 134.359°E

Territory of Yoshinogawa City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.6km

神山町, 阿波市, 美馬市, 石井町, 上板町

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

Yoshinogawa City isthis kind of town.

01The Egawa water temperature anomaly is a phenomenon at the Egawa spring source in Chiejima, Kamojima, where the water is about 10°C in summer and over 20°C in winter. It was designated a Tokushima Prefecture Natural Monument in 1954. The Environment Agency also chose "Egawa Spring" as one of Japan's 100 famous waters in 1985.
02Nishi-Oe Station and Egawa Amusement Park tell of a station and a park opened with funds from the indigo merchant Kudo family. Takagai Stone Walls are the stone walls of a mountain village in Misato, and Iwanohana Lookout looks over the Yoshino River from Kojoyama in Kawashima.
03The city also has Inbe Shrine in Yamakawa, which performs the rites for the aratae cloth offered at the Daijosai (such as the start of weaving); the Misato fireflies and the Funakubo Ontsutsuji azalea grove, both national natural monuments; Nishi-Oe Hachiman Shrine with its Bizen-ware guardian dogs; Sogaya Gokuro, a comic actor from Kamojima; and Fujii-dera, Temple No. 11 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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