01 ／ Toryunada
Toryunada (闘竜灘) is a stretch of the Kakogawa river bed filled with strange rocks; the water leaping over them was likened to dragons fighting, which gave it the name. Ayu fishing opens on 1 May, the earliest in Japan, and a local method called kakehi-ryo uses the rocks and the fish's urge to swim upstream.
02 ／ Yamada Nishiki
A strain bred in 1923 was tested against others at the sake rice station in Sawabe, then Fukuda village in Kato district and now part of Kato, and in 1936 it was named Yamada Nishiki (山田錦). Much of the city is graded Special A, the top rank for growing areas, and 13 districts hold murakome contracts with brewers.
03 ／ National treasure
The main hall of Chokoji (朝光寺) is a National Treasure. Ink writing on old wall boards inside dates it to 1413. Chiefly in the wayo manner with Chinese and Indian elements mixed in, it is taken as the type for early Muromachi eclectic building. Temple tradition puts the founding at 651.
Living here
For city hall in Yashiro, take a taxi about 15 minutes from Yashirocho Station on the JR Kakogawa Line, or about 10 minutes from the Takino-Yashiro Interchange stop on the Chugoku Highway Bus. The three stations in the city are Yashirocho, Takino and Taki, and Shinki buses run to Himeji, Nishiwaki, Sanda and Kobe-Sannomiya.
+0.8% since 2015
40,181 → 40,645
80.06km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.6 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
17.4km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
Similar towns
Western food you eat with chopsticks, at 100 places.
Katsumeshi加古川, National Treasure, Many shrines and temples
Burned down by Hideyoshi, rebuilt on hardware.
Miki hardware山田錦, Sake country, Rice country
Three things began in this one town.
Aged Day, paper, sake rice山田錦, Sake country, Rice country
