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Kiryu City

Pagoda base stone, thought to top a tomb

Takei Haiji pagoda site

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Kiryu Tenmangu

About 400 years ago, Kiryu Shinmachibegan around the Tenmangu shrine.

The city writes that Kiryu Shinmachi was founded about 400 years ago with the Tenmangu shrine as its starting point. The main hall and connecting hall are covered in carving and color, and in 2023 they became Important Cultural Properties along with the Kasuga subsidiary shrine. The Kasuga shrine's main hall is estimated to date from the early 17th century and is described as the oldest in the city.

Main hall, connecting hall, worship hall: Important Cultural Property
Kasuga shrine hall: estimated early 17th century
Designated September 25, 2023

02 ／ Former Gunma Prefectural Health Bureau

A prefectural health bureau built in Maebashibecame a village office in Aioi.

Former Gunma Prefectural Health Bureau in Kiryu City — Photo by Hasec (CC0)

Built in August 1878 in what is now Ote-cho, Maebashi, as the Gunma Prefectural Health Bureau, it also housed a medical school. The bureau was abolished the next January, and in February 1929 the building was renovated and moved to its present site in Aioi Village, where it became the village office. It became an Important Cultural Property in 1976 as an example of pseudo-Western architecture.

Completed August 1878
February 1929: became Aioi Village office
Important Cultural Property, 1976

03 ／ Hikobe Family Residence

In a manor ringed by earthen banks and a moat,a wing north of the main house was a textile mill.

The manor grounds measure about 130 m east to west and 100 m north to south, enclosed by a square earthen bank and moat. The main house keeps an early Edo-period style, with a wide dirt-floored area, and became an Important Cultural Property in 1992. A projecting wing on its north side was used as a textile mill from the Meiji era on, and contains a brick dye kiln.

About 130 m by 100 m
Main house: early Edo period
Important Cultural Property, 1992

Kiryu City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot May–August 2020)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

102 minutes to Asakusa by limited express, 90 to Kita-Senju.

about 110,000 people

The Tobu limited express Ryomo takes 102 minutes at the fastest from Asakusa to Shin-Kiryu Station, and 90 from Kita-Senju, with no change of trains (the city says 100 minutes from Asakusa). The gateway is Kiryu Station, on the JR Ryomo Line and the Watarase Keikoku Railway. In June 2005 the city merged with Niisato and Kuroho Villages, and its area doubled.

People living here: 106,445people
Area: 274.45km²
Households: 44,971households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,687yen
Healthcare: 8 hospitals ／ 96 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-06-13 に編入合併（新里村・黒保根村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —27 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Kiryu City in Japan36.405°N 139.331°E

to AsakusaLtd. exp. Ryomo102min
to Kita-SenjuLtd. exp. Ryomo90min

Travel times follow 東武鉄道「特急列車時刻表（浅草-館林・赤城・葛生・伊勢崎下り）」PDF（2026.3.14 改正。https://www.tobu.co.jp/pdf/timetable/time-table_02_kudari.pdf?202603）の浅草発・北千住発・新桐生着の列を、300dpi に起こした画像で目で読んだ（2026-10-21）。乗り換えなしで新桐生に着く特急（太田から桐生線へ入る同じ列車。列車番号の『E』つきの黒字の普通列車は除く）は、りょうもう・リバティりょうもうの1・3・5・7・11・13・15・17・19・23・27・31・35・37・41号の15本で、浅草→新桐生は102〜114分。最短は102分（11号 10:50発→12:32着・13号 11:50→13:32・15号 12:50→14:32・17号 13:50→15:32。19号 14:50→16:34 は104分）、北千住→新桐生の最短は90分（11号 11:02→12:32・13号 12:02→13:32・15号 13:02→14:32・17号 14:02→15:32）。PDF は1枚の表で、平日・土休日を分けず、臨時の印も無い (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kiryu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

26.3km

Gunma Prefecture: Midori City, Maebashi City, Numata City, Ota City, Isesaki City
Tochigi Prefecture: Sano City, Ashikaga City

Kiryu City isthis kind of town.

01At Takei Haiji pagoda site in Niisato, a stone long taken for a pagoda base lay on an octagonal stone-built mound found in a 1969 excavation, and the city writes that the view it is a Nara-period cremation tomb is strongly supported
02Kiryu Shinmachi, a preservation district for groups of traditional buildings in a city that flourished on textiles, is written by the city to have begun around Tenmangu, whose main hall became an Important Cultural Property in 2023
03The former Gunma Prefectural Health Bureau (Kiryu Meijikan) was built in Maebashi and moved in 1929 to serve as Aioi Village office, and the Hikobe residence keeps a former textile-mill wing inside its earthen banks and moat

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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