Waki Town

From above, the town hall links hands.

Waki Town Hall, Kurokawa Kisho

Photo by Taisyo (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Misshu Shrine Site Monument (三秀神社遺跡記念碑)

The lord of Yoshikawa enshrined in a shrinethe three lost in the border dispute.

In October of Hōreki 2 (1752), a brawl between the Yoshikawa and Asano domains broke out at Yozano-chi (与三野地), at the mouth of the Ose River, leaving many dead and wounded on both sides. Fifty years later the domains settled and fixed the border, and the Yoshikawa lord enshrined the three victims. A monument and their graves are in the town.

The border dispute lasted 200 years
Brawl in October of Hōreki 2 (1752)
Three victims enshrined

02 ／ Waki Station

A station the townspeople had long wished foropened with donations from residents and firms.

In 2002 the town and Iwakuni City held a rally of the committee to bring a new station, and in December 2006 a fund-raising drive for donations began. The station opened on March 15, 2008, and Waki Station Exchange Plaza (和木駅交流プラザ) opened the same day.

Opened March 15, 2008
Donation drive from December 2006
Iwakuni City's contribution of about 200 million yen budgeted (FY2008)

03 ／ Seta Hachimangu Shrine

The main hall, whose founding year is knownfrom a ridge tablet, keeps an old form.

According to its ridge tablet, the present main hall was built in 1715 (Shōtoku 5) on the order of the Yoshikawa lord 吉川経永, and keeps an old form, including inosasu gable supports (豕叉首). In Edo-period Waki Village, joining the young men's group involved a test of strength; the top stone weighs 240 kg and is inscribed "脇村の住人都石源之進" (a resident of Wakimura).

Main hall built 1715 (Shōtoku 5)
Yamaguchi Prefecture designated tangible cultural property (1998)
Top strength-test stone: 240 kg

Living here

Facing Hiroshima Prefecture across the Ose River.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

At the eastern edge of Yamaguchi, the town covers 10.58 km². It faces Ōtake in Hiroshima Prefecture to the north and the Seto Inland Sea to the east, and about half of it is forest. The Ose River was a stage of the Second Chōshū expedition (the Shikyō war). Ties from settlers who left Waki Village for Hokkaido around 1886 made it a sister city of Eniwa in 1979. The community bus "Aiai Bus" runs from Waki Station.

People living here: 6,034people
Area: 10.58km²
Households: 2,476households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 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 2 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Waki Town in Japan34.202°N 132.220°E

Territory of Waki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

3.5km

Yamaguchi Prefecture: 岩国市
Hiroshima Prefecture: 大竹市

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

Waki Town isthis kind of town.

01Waki is home to a red-brick town hall, designed by Kurokawa Kisho and completed in 1975, whose office and assembly wings form joined hands seen from above, at the eastern edge of Yamaguchi.
02Yozano-chi (与三野地) at the mouth of the Ose River was where the Yoshikawa and Asano domains disputed their border; a monument and graves for the three victims enshrined there stand in the town.
03It has Waki Station, opened in 2008 with donations from residents, and Seta Hachimangu (瀬田八幡宮) with its prefecturally designated main hall, facing Hiroshima Prefecture across the Ose River.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Waki Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗