01 ／ Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is 3,911 metres long with a centre span of 1,991 metres, one of the largest suspension bridges in the world. Built as part of the Honshu-Shikoku link, work began on site in May 1988 and it was finished in April 1998. The city writes that many residents cross the bridge to work and to school.
02 ／ Incense
Incense has been made in Awaji for about 170 years, and the city has the largest output in the country. The makers are concentrated in the Ei and Gunge districts on the west coast. The same city also makes about 80 per cent of the fukimodoshi (吹き戻し), the paper party blowers, produced in Japan.
03 ／ Gossakaito site
The Gossakaito site (五斗長垣内遺跡) is an ironworking settlement of the late Yayoi period. It shows that iron culture, which mattered greatly to the forming of the early state, was taken up here before the Kinai region, and the city calls it the core site of Awaji Island's Japan Heritage. The Funaki site nearby shows the same.
Living here
Awaji Island has no railway, and the gateway of the city is the port of Iwaya, about 13 minutes from Akashi on the Awaji Jenova Line. Highway buses from Sannomiya and Kosoku-Maiko stop at Tsuna-ko, about ten minutes' walk from city hall. The city was formed in 2005 by the merger of five towns: Tsuna, Awaji, Hokudan, Ichinomiya and Higashiura.
−4.6% since 2015
49,078 → 41,967
111.8km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
10.5 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「市勢要覧テキストバージョン（淡路市市勢要覧2021）」のACCESSに載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
23.9km
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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Three pagodas planned east of the hall.
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