Abu Town

A rail bridge curves along the shore.

Sōgōgawa Bridge, San-in Line

Photo by MaedaAkihiko (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Daikakuji Temple

The grave of Amago Yoshihisa (尼子義久),lord of Tonda Castle, is in this Nago temple.

An old temple about 500 m northeast of Nago Station, said to have been called Kōōji before it was renamed Daikakuji. It holds the grave of Amago Yoshihisa (尼子義久), who submitted to the Mōri in the Sengoku era. The grounds also have a giant byakushin (Chinese juniper) tree, a prefectural natural monument.

Grave of Amago Yoshihisa, once lord of Tonda Castle in Unshū (Yamaguchi Tourism Federation)
Submitted to the Mōri (town website)
Giant byakushin is a prefectural natural monument (designated 1966)

02 ／ Mukaku Washu

A sire was brought in during 1920,and a hornless Japanese cattle breed was born.

In 1920 a sire with Aberdeen Angus bloodline was brought to Ōi Village (now Hagi) and crossed with native Japanese Black cattle, giving rise to Mukaku Washu (無角和種, Japanese Polled). As tastes turned to marbled beef, numbers fell; in 1994 Yamaguchi Prefecture and municipalities of the Abu-Hagi area, among others, set up a promotion corporation.

One of the four Japanese beef breeds (Ministry of Agriculture)
A sire was brought in 1920 (town website)
Cattle graze at Nishidai Pasture from April to November (Ministry of Agriculture)

03 ／ Himeshima Forest

This granite islet off Utagō has forestsin three bands by height above the sea.

Two granite islands lie about 2 km west of Uta in Abu. The larger has an area of 6 ha and its highest point is 91.6 m. Hamabiwa communities grow around the edge, black pine forest above, and shii (Castanopsis) communities at the top. The whole island is a prefectural natural monument.

The larger island: 6 ha, highest point 91.6 m
Forest divides into three bands by height above the sea
Whole island is a prefectural natural monument (designated 1981)

Living here

Nago and Uta by the sea, Fukuga in the hills.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

The town covers 115.95 km². It has three districts, Nago and Utago on the coast and Fukuga in the mountains, and was formed in January 1955 when Nago Town, Fukuga Village and Utago Village merged. It did not merge with neighboring municipalities and has kept to independent town government. The town office is in Nago, where the town bus and the Fukusuke scheduled bus meet the JR San-in Main Line at Nago Station.

People living here: 3,055people
Area: 115.95km²
Households: 1,365households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 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 1 municipalities.

Abu Town in Japan34.503°N 131.471°E

Territory of Abu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

14.1km

萩市

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

Abu Town isthis kind of town.

01Abu is a town on the Sea of Japan where the Sōgōgawa Bridge, completed in 1932 for the San-in Main Line, spans the surf line at the mouth of the Sōgō River. The 189.14 m reinforced-concrete rigid-frame bridge was chosen as a Selected Civil Engineering Heritage by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers in 2001.
02In Nago, Daikakuji Temple holds the grave of Amago Yoshihisa (尼子義久), once lord of Tonda Castle, and in Fukuga the town keeps Mukaku Washu cattle, bred by crossing native Japanese Black cattle with a sire of foreign bloodline. The islet Himeshima off Uta is a prefectural natural monument in its entirety.
03Made up of coastal Nago and Utago and hilly Fukuga, the 115.95 km² town did not merge with its neighbors and has kept to independent town government.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Abu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗