The River’s Clearly Still Flowing but the Sign Says “End Point”

The sign was near the Koyoen six-way intersection, close to the “Shin Koyo-guchi” bus stop!

Here’s about where it is on the map↓

Looking upstream, the river is still flowing, so it doesn’t feel like it ends here.

And downstream, there’s no particular change like the current getting faster either ^_^;

Higashigawa is a river that runs north to south through roughly the middle of Nishinomiya City and continues all the way to the sea. It’s about 5.3 km long and is a Class B river!

The mystery seems to be hidden in that “Class B river” part (*^^)v

To put it simply, a Class B river is “an important river related to everyone’s daily life,”

or in other words, “a river designated by the governor of the prefecture where it is located because it needs to be managed under river law” ^^;

So that means up to this point, it’s a river managed by Hyogo Prefecture ヽ(^o^)

In other words, as the Class B river Higashigawa, this is the endpoint! The end! That’s what the plate marks.

But, but!

Unless my understanding is wrong,

this spot should be Mitarashigawa, not Higashigawa!

A survey for those who know this area:

According to the Collaborative Reference Database↓

Screenshot from the Collaborative Reference Database

This got a little off track, but…

That was the story of finding an “endpoint” that isn’t actually the end of the river (^^ゞ