01 ／ Site
In June 1962 three junior high school students living in the town came upon the Onaka site. It is a late Yayoi settlement, 500 metres long and 180 wide, about 70,000 square metres in all. A fifth of that area has been dug so far, turning up the floors of 73 pit dwellings. It became a national historic site in 1967.
02 ／ Newspaper
Hikotaro, born in 1837 in the village of Komiya, was wrecked in a storm and drifted the Pacific until an American merchant ship picked him up on the 53rd day. In 1858 he became the first Japanese to take American citizenship. In 1864 he issued Shimbunshi, the first newspaper in Japan, renamed Kaigai Shimbun the next year and printed through 26 issues.
03 ／ Reclaimed land
At 9.13 square kilometres, Harima is the smallest municipality in Hyogo, and three tenths of that is an artificial island built out over the sea. About 60 companies work there now, mostly general machinery and chemicals, and the town's manufacturing shipments rank high within the prefecture.
Living here
The town has JR Tsuchiyama and Sanyo Electric Railway's Harimacho. The town hall is a short walk from the south exit of Harimacho; from Tsuchiyama you change to a bus.
−0.4% since 2015
33,583 → 33,604
9.13km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.8 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 町公式「ようこそ播磨町へ」に載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
4.5km
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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