28365 ／ たかちょう
Hyogo Prefecture 多可郡Three things began in this one town.
Aged Day, paper, sake rice01 ／ Holiday
In April 1947 Kadowaki Masao, 35, became headman of Nomadani village and held a village gathering for everyone aged 55 and over. The first was on 15 September: mild weather, a slack season for farming, and the old tale of the waterfall of youth. The next year the village made that date its own holiday, and in 1966 it became a national one.
02 ／ Paper
Sugihara paper (杉原紙), from the Sugihara valley, appears in documents from at least the late Heian period. In medieval times it went up to the imperial court as a gift from Harima and was spoken of as the finest paper in Japan. It is still made by hand here, and the town is working toward having it registered as cultural property.
03 ／ Sake rice
Yamada Nishiki, the sake rice born in 1936, has Yamada-ho for its mother, and the likeliest account has it found by Yamada Seizaburo of Higashi-Yasuda. That is why the town calls itself the birthplace of Yamada Nishiki. On 5 March 2006 it became the first municipality to declare itself a town that toasts with sake.
Living here
No railway runs through the town. From Sannomiya it is about an hour and 25 minutes by JR via Kakogawa to Nishiwakishi, then about 40 minutes by Wing Shinki bus to the town hall. From Osaka, Tanikawa on the JR Fukuchiyama Line is about an hour and 20 minutes, and the town hall is about 16 kilometres further.
−9.1% since 2015
23,104 → 19,261
35.84km² of it habitable
2024
2.9 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.8 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
26.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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