28585 ／ かみちょう
Hyogo Prefecture 美方郡99.9% of Japan's black wagyu dams descend from one bull here.
Tajiri-go, Tajima cattle01 ／ Cattle
Tajiri-go, a Tajima bull born in the Ojiro district in 1939, has been confirmed as the ancestor of 99.9 percent of Japan's Japanese Black breeding cows. On 5 July 2023 the FAO recognised the traditional Tajima cattle system of the Mikata area, where people and cattle live together, as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System.
02 ／ Bridge
From its completion in 1912 the Amarube trestle carried the San-in Line for about a hundred years. When a concrete bridge took over in August 2010, the three piers on the Amarube station side were kept where they stood and became the Sky Station viewing deck, about 40 metres above the ground, looking out over the Sea of Japan.
03 ／ Screen paintings
The guest hall of Daijo-ji (大乗寺) holds 165 painted panels across thirteen rooms, by Maruyama Okyo and twelve of his pupils, all of them Important Cultural Properties. Around the eleven-headed Kannon in the Buddha room, the rooms build the Buddhist world in three dimensions. The originals are now in storage, with exact reproductions in their place.
Living here
Kasumi on the JR San-in Line is the gateway, served by the Hamakaze limited express; you can also change to a local train at Kinosaki-Onsen. For the Muraoka and Ojiro districts, take a Zentan bus from Yoka. By car the town reckons about 3 hours from Osaka and about 2 from Himeji.
−11.1% since 2015
21,439 → 16,064
52km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.5 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
33.8km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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