When the castle town of Akashi was a planted in the Edo period, sailors were moved to the south area of the Akashi River from the port of Akashi. Then the fishing village called Tozu Village Shinhama was born. This area suffered war damage. As the village was reconstructed by following old foundation stones, afterward many wooden houses were built close together messily like that used to be. Because the village is connected with the sea closely, a lot of narrow roads face to the beach and houses were built along them. As the local residents are connected with common purpose like fishing, so they share one well and each group of them enshrines each own statue of Jizo and form an independent community. The height of roofs and eaves of their houses is the almost same, in addition, width and depth of them aren’t very different. At this area narrow allies crisscross and houses are closely together, so residents become more familiar.
Akashi heritage-map “castle town(Jouka)” 2017
