Sakaiminato City

500,000+ tons a year for nine years.

Sakai Fishing Port, Sakaiminato

01 ／ Hakushu Cotton Swaddles (伯州綿)

A newborn gets a cotton swaddle.A person turning 100 gets a lap blanket.

Every year, Sakaiminato gives a swaddle made of Hakushu cotton to each baby born in the city, and a lap blanket to each person who turns 100. Hakushu cotton is a Japanese cotton first grown on the Yumihama Peninsula in the Edo period. Since fiscal 2008, the city has worked to bring back cotton fields that were nearly lost.

Swaddle for each newborn
Lap blanket at age 100
Cotton fields revived since fiscal 2008

02 ／ Imo-daikan Monuments (芋代官碑)

Monuments to the magistrate who brought the sweet potato:7 of the 12 in Tottori stand in this city.

In 1732, during the Great Kyoho Famine, sweet potatoes were brought from Satsuma to the San'in region, and many villagers' lives were saved. These monuments thank Ido Heizaemon, the magistrate of the Iwami Silver Mine domain who did it. Sweet potatoes reached Sakaiminato in 1780, the first place in Tottori Prefecture. The city designated the monuments a folk cultural property in 1987.

7 of the 12 in Tottori Prefecture are in the city
Sweet potatoes reached Sakaiminato in 1780
City-designated folk cultural property, 1987

03 ／ Okonya in Takenouchi-cho (竹内町のオコニャ)

Groups take turns making a great rice cakeand offering it at Daido-ji temple.

Okonai is a New Year event praying for safety, a good harvest and big catches; Takenouchi-cho calls it Okonya. Each early January, groups centered on 15 founding households have taken turns making a great rice cake, offering it at Daido-ji (大同寺) and handing it on to the next group. It is said to have begun around the Horeki era.

Centered on 15 founding households
Said to date from the Horeki era (1751-1764)
Selected prefectural cultural property, 2016

Living here

Across the Sakai Channel lies the Shimane Peninsula.

about 30,000 people

Sakaiminato sits at the western edge of Tottori Prefecture on the Yumihama Peninsula, facing the Shimane Peninsula across the Sakai Channel. Yumigahama beach was chosen for the '100 Best White Sand and Green Pine Coasts of Japan', and 177 yokai bronze statues line Mizuki Shigeru Road. In Sakai Daiba Park, built on an old Bakumatsu-era battery, about 240 cherry trees bloom.

People living here: 32,740people
Area: 29.11km²
Households: 13,128households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,537yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 27 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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 3 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Sakaiminato City in Japan35.540°N 133.232°E

Territory of Sakaiminato City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.4km

Tottori Prefecture: 米子市
Shimane Prefecture: 松江市, 安来市

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

Sakaiminato City isthis kind of town.

01At Sakai Fishing Port, sardine stocks grew, and landings stayed at 500,000 tons or more for nine years in a row from 1986 to 1994, reaching 690,000 tons in 1993.
02The city gives a swaddle made of Hakushu cotton to each baby born here, and a lap blanket to each person who turns 100.
03Seven of Tottori Prefecture's 12 imo-daikan monuments stand in the city, and in Takenouchi-cho a great rice cake is offered at Daido-ji temple in the Okonya.

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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