Kurube Kanga ruins

The Kurube Kanga ruins (久留倍官衙遺跡, Kurube Kanga iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the Oyachi neighborhood of the city of Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture in the northern Kansai region of Japan.

[1] In the late Nara period, after the establishment of a centralized government under the Ritsuryō system, local rule over the provinces was standardized under a kokufu (provincial capital), and each province was divided into smaller administrative districts, known as (郡, gun, kōri), composed of 2–20 townships in 715 AD.

[2] Each of the units had an administrative complex, or kanga (官衙遺跡) built on a semi-standardized layout based on contemporary Chinese design.

The Kurube Kanga ruins are located on a hill with an elevation of approximately 30 meters overlooking Ise Bay.

There are plans to open the site as the Kurube Kanga Archaeological Park (久留倍官衙遺跡公園) with a museum and reconstructions of buildings.