Yame, Fukuoka
Yame (Japanese八 女 市, -shi, literally, eight women ) is a Japanese city in southern Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
Geography
Yame located south of Fukuoka and Kurume, and north of Kumamoto.
History
The city was founded in 1954 from a church (福岛 町) and three villages (川 崎 村,忠 见 村,冈山 村) of the district YAME formed.
Attractions
Around the city there are several ancient burial mounds, including the keyhole-shaped Kofun - Iwatoyama (岩 戸 山 古坟).
Traffic
- Roads: Kyushu Expressway
- National Road 3
- National roads 442
Sons and daughters of the town
- Takafumi Horie (CEO of Livedoor )
Adjacent Cities and Towns
- Kurume
- Chikugo
- Miyama
- Tachibana
- Hirokawa
- Kurogi
- Hoshino