A town under the direct rule of the shogunate: 10.7 hectares protected since 10 December 2004.
Mameda-machi was a tenryō, a territory under the direct administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, and it keeps the grid layout and the buildings of the early feudal period. It has two national Important Cultural Properties (the hall of Chōfuku-ji and the merchant residence of the Kusano family), as well as fire-resistant igura-zukuri storehouses, façades in genuine wood, Western-style buildings from the Meiji period and three-storey houses from the early Shōwa period. Selected as a national preservation district on 10 December 2004, covering about 10.7 hectares.
Hita's historic district, with wooden houses from the Edo period and about a hundred shops. It is a public street.
ℹ️ A public district that you can walk through at any time; the museums and historic residences inside it have their own opening hours and tickets, not rechecked one by one in this pass.
🚉 Hita · 14 min walk
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It is one of the three areas into which the ‘Shingeki no Hita’ project divides the pilgrimage, together with the centre around the station and the Ōyama area, where the dam with the statues is. The link is with the author's home town rather than with a specific scene.
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Shingeki no Hita Café
Hita Station South Plaza
Kuma Hachiman Shrine — home of the Hita Gion
‘進撃の巨人 in HITA’ Museum ANNEX (Sapporo Beer Kyūshū Hita)