Kinokawa City

On the Yamato road, used as an inn.

Nate-juku Honjin, Imose family

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Mifune Shrine

A main hall and two subsidiary shrine halls stand side by side,in a splendid Momoyama-period shrine.

At Mifune Shrine in Kanda, Momoyama-cho, the main hall and the main halls of two subsidiary shrines, Niu Myojin Shrine and Koya Myojin Shrine, three buildings in all, were designated Important Cultural Properties in 1969. The Agency for Cultural Affairs says the main hall and two subsidiary shrine halls stand side by side and that it is clear the shrine was reconstructed in 1591 (Tensho 19).

Important Cultural Property, 3 buildings, designated 1969
Reconstructed in 1591 (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
All three roofed with cypress bark (city)

02 ／ Mikoshi of Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine

Said to have been sent over when the deity of Iwashimizu Hachimangu was invited,the National Treasure mikoshi is kept at Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine.

The Ikakeji-raden Kondoso Mikoshi, a portable shrine of Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine, is a Heian-period craft work designated a National Treasure in 1956. The city says it is handed down that the mikoshi was sent over by order of Emperor Gohorikawa when the deity of Iwashimizu Hachimangu was invited here. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as almost identical in form to the mikoshi of Konda Hachiman.

National Treasure, designated 1956
Total height 225.7 cm
Main hall and Dainichi-do are Important Cultural Properties

03 ／ Shunrinken

Shunrinken is Hanaoka Seishu's home and clinic,and was also a medical school.

Shunrinken in Nishinoyama is a group of buildings that was the home and clinic of Hanaoka Seishu, and also a medical school. The city says the main house and storehouse are as they were then, while the other buildings were reconstructed from excavation data and other materials. The prefecture's magazine says Seishu succeeded in 1804 in the world's first breast cancer removal under general anesthesia.

Main house and storehouse as they were then (city)
Ward rooms for inpatients (prefectural magazine)
Surgery succeeded in 1804 (prefectural magazine)

Living here

About 30 minutes from Wakayama Station to Uchita Station on the Wakayama Line.

about 60,000 people

City Hall is about a 10-minute walk from JR Uchita Station on the Wakayama Line. The city's guide has visitors from Osaka transfer to the JR Wakayama Line at Wakayama Station and ride to Uchita Station. Five JR Wakayama Line stations lie in the city: Uchita, Kokawa, Nate, Shimoisaka and Kii-Nagata. The city was formed in November 2005 by the merger of five towns: Uchita, Kokawa, Naga, Momoyama and Kishigawa.

People living here: 58,816people
Area: 228.21km²
Households: 23,351households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,868yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 63 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kinokawa City in Japan34.270°N 135.363°E

Territory of Kinokawa City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

19.1km

Wakayama Prefecture: 紀美野町, かつらぎ町, 岩出市, 和歌山市, 海南市
Osaka Prefecture: 泉佐野市, 貝塚市, 泉南市, 岸和田市

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

Kinokawa City isthis kind of town.

01Old Nate-juku Honjin, a former official inn on the Yamato road, is a National Historic Site, and its main house, rice storehouse and south storehouse are Important Cultural Properties; the Agency for Cultural Affairs says that north of the main house, across a partitioning earthen wall, stand two offices, a guardhouse and a storeroom for constables of the magistrate corps
02The main hall and two subsidiary shrine halls of Mifune Shrine are Important Cultural Properties, and the mikoshi of Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine is a National Treasure; Shunrinken was Hanaoka Seishu's home and clinic and also a medical school
03The Kii Kokubunji temple site is a National Historic Site, and the city says the foundation stones of its seven-story pagoda keep their original form from the founding period; the peach blossoms of Togenkyo in Momoyama-cho are called a "hundred thousand trees at a glance", and the garden of Kokawadera Temple is a Place of Scenic Beauty

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kinokawa City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗