Aburatsu Port 油津港
The Horikawa Canal, dug in 1686, brought Obi cedar here to be shipped.
A port in Nichinan, on the south coast of Miyazaki. A trading port as early as the time of the embassies to China, contested between the Itō and the Shimazu in the Sengoku period, the port where Obi cedar was loaded in the Edo period, and today a port of call for large cruise ships. The Horikawa Canal, 984 m long by about thirty wide, was dug at the beginning of the Edo period precisely to bring the timber down from the Hirowatari River to here.
Miyazaki
Aburatsu, Bus Station
Suzume
The port seen in the opening sequence, when Suzume rides down on her bicycle and meets Sōta on the road to school. The sources describe it in two different ways: the pilgrimage map calls it ‘model for the bridge on the road to school’, the second, more cautiously, ‘the port that appears in the scene’. Someone who went to check in person writes that the shot from above combines several Kyūshū ports (Saganoseki, Kitsuki, Aburatsu) and that, of those three, Aburatsu is the closest match. No source identifies a specific bridge, and none places it on the Horikawa Canal.
