The 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites, more fully the , is an initiative of the endorsed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
Out of the original 350 submissions, a committee selected the final 100 fishing villages in 2006. The purpose of the initiative is to promote interest in and reuse of the historic and culturally important facilities of the fishing industry and their traditional styles and methods of construction. At the time of selection, some 6,291 fishing villages were recognized, one for every 5.5 km of the coast.
Sites Site Prefecture Municipality Comments Image Coordinates RefHerring Fishery Architecturenishin gyoba kenchiku Hokkaidō Ishikari, Obira, Otaru, Rumoi, Suttsu, Tomari, Yoichi seven elements: the (ICP dating to 1905, pictured); (in use from 1844 to 1957, Historic Site, a collection of 3,745 related tools is an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property); ; (); ; (, ); Former Shimo-Yoichi Unjōyakyū-Shimo-Yoichi unjōya Hokkaidō Yoichi built by the Matsumae Domain to facilitate trade and exchange between the Wajin and the Ainu Shimamaki Fukuromafukuroma Hokkaidō Shimamaki temporary herring storage facility Yokoyama HouseYokoyama-ke Hokkaidō Esashi Ishizaki Fishing Port TunnelIshizaki gyokō tonneru kōro Hokkaidō Kaminokuni Hakodate Fishing Port Entrance BreakwaterHakodate gyokō funairima bōhatei Hokkaidō Hakodate Collection of 67 mudamahagi-type Fishing Boats from the Tsugaru Strait and Surrounding AreasTsugaru-kaikyō oyobi shūhen chiiki no mudamahagi-gata gyosen korekushon 67-seki Aomori Aomori Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property; at the Aomori Museum of History Fishing Gear and Beach Hutgyorō-yō gu to hama-goya Aomori Hachinohe Tsukuehama Fishing Village BanyaTsukuehama gyoson banya-gun Iwate Tanohata Sanriku Tsunami FacilitiesSanriku tsunami denshō shisetsu Iwate Kamaishi, Miyako two elements: the and Cape Ne Tiger-Ladder Dance and Kurosaki JinjaNe-saki hashi go-tora-mai to Kurosaki Jinja Iwate Rikuzentakata the shrine was founded in 1172; the festival takes place every four years on the tenth day of the ninth month of the old lunar calendar, using ladders twenty metres long Shiogama Minato Matsuri and Parade Boat Minato matsuri to go-zasen Miyagi Shiogama Yuri Coast Sea WallYuri-kaigan nami-yoke ishigaki Akita Nikaho Jūroku Rakan IwaJūroku Rakan iwa Yamagata Yuza Matsukawa Bay EntranceMatsukawa-ura no ura-guchi Fukushima Sōma Hitachi Ōtsu Ofuna-matsuri and Festival BoatsHitachi Ōtsu no ofuna-matsuri to saiji-sen Ibaraki Kitaibaraki Hobiki-buneHobiki-bune Ibaraki Itako, Kasumigaura, Namegata, Tsuchiura Yamamoto Family ResidenceYamamoto-ke jūtaku Ibaraki Kamisu History of the Development of the Fishing Industry in ChōshiChōshi gyogyō kaitaku no rekishi Chiba Chōshi three elements: , , and Iwafune JizōIwafune Jizō-son Chiba Isumi Minamibōsō Whaling Tradition FacilitiesMinamibōsō hogei denshō shisetsu Chiba Kyonan, Minamibōsō three elements: the , , and Funabashi Daijingū LighthouseFunabashi Daijingū tōmyō-dai Chiba Funabashi built in 1880 in the grounds of Ōhi Jinja Sites Related to the Fishing Industry of Edo-Tōkyō: Tsukuda-jima, Nihonbashi, Tsukiji Edo Tōkyō gyogyō yukari no chi Tōkyō Chūō Takamori LighthouseTakamori tōdai Tōkyō Niijima Five Wasenwasen go-sō Kanagawa Yokosuka Fishing Tradition of ManazuruManazuru no gyogyō dentō Kanagawa Manazuru two elements: the and (in 1672, concerned by deforestation, the Odawara Domain gave 150,000 pine saplings to each village) Ado-ikeAdo-ike Kagawa Higashikagawa popular for mullet-fishing until the Meiji period Minoura Fishing PortMinoura gyokō Kagawa Kan'onji Monument to Kathleen Mary Drew-BakerDōrū-jo shi kinen-hi Kumamoto Uto Utase-buneofuna-yori Kumamoto Ashikita Sakitsu ChurchSakitsu tenshūdō Kumamoto Amakusa is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region Ofuna-yoriofuna-yori Ōita Nakatsu Seven Wonders of Hime-shimaHime-shima nana fushigi Ōita Kunisaki two elements: and Hoto-jima VillageHoto-jima shūraku Ōita Tsukumi Story of Abaratsu PortAbaratsu no minato monogatari Miyazaki Nichinan three elements: the ; ; Outrigger Utase-buneketa-utase-bune Kagoshima Izumi by 2005 their number had dwindled to 5 Kashima Island Resident Life CentreKashima ritō jūmin seikatsu sentā Kagoshima Satsumasendai former headquarters of the local fishing cooperative Hashima Fishing PortHashima gyokō Kagoshima Ichikikushikino Statues of Hara Kō, Developer of the Southern Fisheriesnanpō gyojō no kaitaku-sha Hara Kō no zō Kagoshima Makurazaki, Minamisatsuma Santinmō - HakugindōSantinmō to Hakugindō Okinawa Itoman Fish Wallnagaki Okinawa Miyakojima
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External links 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites