28225 ／ あさごし
Hyogo PrefectureAbove the sea of clouds, the walls of a ruined castle.
Takeda Castle ruins01 ／ Castle
Takeda Castle is said to have begun around 1443, when Yamana Sozen, military governor of Tajima, had his retainer the Otagaki family build it. Seven generations of Otagaki held it, then Hashiba Hidenaga, Kuwayama Shigeharu and Akamatsu Hirohide. In 1600 Hirohide took his own life and the castle was abandoned. It became a national historic site in 1943.
02 ／ Silver
The Ikuno silver mine is said to have opened in 807, though no record survives to fix the date. Serious digging began in 1542, and the mine passed from Oda to Toyotomi to Tokugawa. In 1868 it became a mine held directly by the government, in 1896 it was sold to Mitsubishi, and in 1973 it closed.
03 ／ Ore dressing
In 1919 a large ore-dressing plant was built at Mikobata. Ore carried from the Akenobe mine, six kilometres away across the mountains, was separated here into zinc, copper and tin by weight and by flotation. At its height the plant had the largest output in East Asia.
Living here
JR Wadayama is the gateway. By limited express it is about 2 hours 10 minutes from Osaka via the Fukuchiyama Line, about 2 hours from Kobe via the Bantan Line, and about 1 hour 50 minutes from Kyoto via the San-in Line. For the castle, get off at Takeda on the same Bantan Line.
−5.9% since 2015
34,791 → 28,989
64.54km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
10.0 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 市公式「朝来市へのアクセス」に載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
32.9km
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