28221 ／ たんばささやまし
Hyogo PrefectureJapan Heritage No. 1 was this town's folk song.
Dekansho-bushi01 ／ Dekansho
In April 2015 the story of Tamba Sasayama's Dekansho-bushi (デカンショ節), a home town remembered through folk song, was the first ever named Japan Heritage. The song runs, the monkeys of the Tamba Sasayama hills go and act on the stages of Edo. The city has a Dekansho hall to mark it.
02 ／ Sasayama Castle
Sasayama Castle was raised on the hill of Sasayama in 1609 at the order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, with feudal lords conscripted for the work. Todo Takatora laid out the plan and Ikeda Terumasa ran the construction. Stone walls, moats and two of the three barbicans survive, and it became a national historic site in 1956.
03 ／ Tamba ware
Tachikui in Konda is the home of Tamba ware, one of Japan's six ancient kilns along with Seto, Echizen, Tokoname, Shigaraki and Bizen. In 2017 the six kilns were named Japan Heritage together, the city's second such designation.
Living here
The JR Fukuchiyama Line runs from JR Osaka Station to Sasayamaguchi Station in about 60 minutes, and from JR Sannomiya Station, changing at Amagasaki, in about 80. Buses go from the station to the old castle town. The city covers 377.59 square kilometres.
−4.5% since 2015
46,325 → 39,611
95.88km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.8 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 市公式「丹波篠山市の概要」（企業誘致）に載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
24.7km
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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