Maidashi

Maidashi (馬出^?) is a district of Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is divided into six chōme, numbered 1 to 6, with a total population of 8,813 and 5,341 households (as of 31 August 2011). The postal code for addresses in Maidashi is 812–0054. The "Maidashi" school district includes parts of the Higashi Hama district.

It is located to the west of Hakozaki Shrine.

Mai (馬^?) means horse and dashi (出^?) means offer in Japanese. It is said that the name of Maidashi derives from a historical event at which the town people provided horses for participants at a festival in Hakozaki-gu. The name has been used since the end of Heian Period. Formally it belonged in Naka gun (那珂郡^?)(in Chikuzen koku (筑前国^?), it was written as Umayade (馬屋出^?).

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