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Nagato City

A grave was built for whale fetuses.

Ōmijima Whale Grave

Photo by MChew (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Akasaki Shrine Gaku-sajiki

The right to occupy the seatswas bought and sold at high prices.

Southwest of Akasaki Shrine, terraced seating (takasajiki and hirasajiki) lines a bowl-shaped hollow in a horseshoe. The occupancy rights of about 130 high and 70 flat seats were traded, and when the site was designated in 1963 every rights-holder offered their rights to the shrine.

About 130 high and 70 flat seats
Occupancy rights were traded
Nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property (1963)

02 ／ Ōmijima

The rocks painted in the great muralof the Imperial Palace are modeled on Ōmijima's.

青海島海上アルプス.jpg — Photo by 吉田宅浪 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The rocks in Higashiyama Kaii's mural "Asaake no Ushio" (1968) are modeled on those of Ōmijima. Sea cliffs, caves and rock pillars line its east and north coasts, and in 1930 Yokoyama Kendō described the scenery as the "Alps of the sea" (Kaijō Arupusu). It became a national Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument in 1926.

Mural "Asaake no Ushio" dates from 1968
Sea cliffs exceed 100 meters
National Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument (designated 1926)

03 ／ Kunichika Kyūsuke's Rock Tunnel

He cut a tunnel for irrigation waterthrough a great rock, in five years with chisel and mallet.

In the Anei era (1772–1780), a great rock stood along a waterway of about 1 km that carried water to southern Higashi-Fukawa, and villagers struggled each year to repair the wooden flume that detoured around it. Kunichika Kyūsuke of Era opened a hole 1 m in diameter and 13 m long, and was praised as "Iwaana Oniemon" (Rock-Tunnel Oniemon).

1 m in diameter, 13 m long
Praised as "Iwaana Oniemon"
Municipal Historic Site (1984)

Living here

Facing the Sea of Japan, with five hot-spring districts.

about 30,000 people

Nagato lies in northwestern Yamaguchi, bordering Hagi to the east and Shimonoseki and Mine to the south. The city covers 357.31 km² and has five hot-spring districts: Yumoto, Tawarayama, Yumen, Kiwado and Yuyawan. The JR Mine Line remains suspended after storm damage, and replacement buses run instead.

People living here: 32,519people
Area: 357.31km²
Households: 14,135households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,057yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 25 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-22 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

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 3 municipalities.

Nagato City in Japan34.370°N 131.183°E

Territory of Nagato City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

20.0km

下関市, 美祢市, 萩市

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

Nagato City isthis kind of town.

01In Kayoi on Ōmijima stands the Ōmijima Whale Grave, a grave for whale fetuses built by the whaling-crew leaders. Over more than 200 years up to the Meiji era, more than 70 whale fetuses were buried behind it.
02Akasaki Shrine in Higashi-Fukawa has the Gaku-sajiki seating, and Ōmijima's rocks are the model for those in a great mural in the Imperial Palace. In Era, a rock tunnel for irrigation water was cut by Kunichika Kyūsuke.
03In Senzaki, the Kaneko Misuzu Memorial Museum stands on the site of the bookshop where she spent her childhood. The city faces the Sea of Japan and has five hot-spring districts including Yumoto and Tawarayama.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nagato City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗