28217 ／ かわにしし
Hyogo PrefectureSaid to be where the Genji began.
Tada-in, Minamoto no Mitsunaka01 ／ Seiwa Genji
Minamoto no Mitsunaka, a great-great-grandson of Emperor Seiwa, moved to the Tada basin in Kawanishi and founded Tada-in (多田院), which is today Tada Shrine. Because the Genji warriors who later fought across the country descended from him, the city is said to be the birthplace of the Seiwa Genji.
02 ／ Mitsuya Cider
In 1881 a mineral spring at Hirano was found fit to drink, and three years later, in 1884, a carbonated drink called Hirano-sui (平野水) went on sale. That was the beginning of Mitsuya Cider. Production at Hirano ended in 1954; a tower called Mitsuya-to (三ツ矢塔), moved and rebuilt on the site of the works, still stands.
03 ／ The Kurokawa satoyama
In Kurokawa, at the northern end of the city, people burn Ikkura charcoal, kikuzumi (一庫炭・菊炭), the finest charcoal for the tea ceremony. The sawtooth oaks are cut on a cycle of about eight years, part of the hill at a time and in different years, so the woods read as a mosaic. Because that cycle still turns, it is called the finest satoyama in Japan.
Living here
City hall is about five minutes' walk from Kawanishi-Noseguchi, where the Hankyu Takarazuka Line and the Nose Electric Railway meet, and about thirteen minutes from JR Kawanishi-Ikeda. The city's own guide gives routes from Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto but no journey times, so this guide gives none. The city is narrow east to west and long north to south.
−2.6% since 2015
144,539 → 152,321
32.62km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.7 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
15.4km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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