01 ／ Nature
Japan’s wild oriental storks went extinct in 1971, when the last one died in Toyooka. The city brought back low-pesticide paddies and released birds on a trial basis in 2005. In 2007 a chick fledged in the wild for the first time in 43 years, and storks are now an ordinary sight overhead.
02 ／ Hot spring
Kinosaki Onsen (城崎温泉) is said to have been opened by the monk Dochi in 720. The custom here is not to stay in your inn’s bath but to walk between the public bathhouses in yukata and geta. Six of them are open today; Sato no Yu has been closed since 2024.
03 ／ Industry
From wicker trunks woven from willow along the Maruyama River grew a bag industry of more than 180 related companies in the city. On Kaban Street you can watch repair craftsmen at work from the pavement as you pass.
Living here
A city covering a tenth of Hyogo Prefecture, holding a hot spring town, an airport and the storks’ wetlands at once.
−5.8% since 2015
89,208 → 77,489
143.69km² of it habitable
2024
2.6 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
9.4 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).平成17年4月1日に旧豊岡市・城崎町・竹野町・日高町・出石町・但東町が新設合併。2005年国勢調査から新市域で、2000年の47,308人と2005年の89,208人は数えている範囲が違う。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 2026年3月ダイヤ改正後に各社が公式サイトに掲載している値 (checked 2026-09-22). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
32.1km
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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