Fukuchiyama City

Lava cooled into hexagonal columns.

Ogura basalt, Yakuno

Photo by Kumiko Korezumi (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Burial mound

Rear mound, front mound and neckeach hold a stone chamber.

A keyhole-shaped mound built at the end of the 6th century, where the Yura and Maki rivers meet. The first chamber in the rear mound is 12 m long, the third about 7 m. Cross-sections suggest the third was added later. The prefectural board of education says such cases are few across the country, and that this is the only such mound in the prefecture.

3 stone chambers
First chamber 12 m long
Kyoto Prefecture historic site

02 ／ Birthing hut

A gabled roof set straightonto the ground, as a hut.

This small hut beside Obara Shrine in Miwa is built in the tenchi-konpon-zukuri style. The city calls it the only one in Japan, and the prefecture's own document the only one in the country. It was used as part of the village's childbirth customs until 1948, and villagers re-thatched the roof every 8 to 10 years.

Tenchi-konpon-zukuri style
Used until 1948
1985: Kyoto Prefecture tangible folk cultural property

03 ／ Terraces

A mountain hamlet that had 36 housesin the early Meiji era has about 600 terraces.

毛原の棚田202265.jpg — Photo by 新木大地 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kehara lies at the foot of Mount Oe and has supported a small village since at least the Heian period. In the early Meiji era 36 houses and 136 people lived here; 13 houses remain. A thatched house, a waterwheel hut and painted jizo statues stand among the fields. Selected as one of Japan's 100 terraced rice fields in 1999.

About 600 terraced fields
36 houses and 136 people, early Meiji
1999: Japan's 100 Terraced Rice Fields

Living here

Fukuchiyama Station: 75 minutes from Kyoto by express.

about 80,000 people
2 hours to a city centre

JR Fukuchiyama Station is the gateway. By limited express it takes 75 minutes from Kyoto and 91 minutes from Osaka at the fastest. The basalt is in Yakuno, the birthing hut in Miwa and the terraces in Oe, the three former towns the city took in during 2006.

People living here: 77,306people
Area: 552.54km²
Households: 33,632households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,883yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 71 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-01-01 に編入合併（三和町・夜久野町・大江町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —28 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Fukuchiyama City in Japan35.297°N 135.127°E

to OsakaJR limited express91min
to KyotoJR limited express75min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（ページの日付 2026-10-08・木）。乗り換えなしの列車を、同じ列車の列で『発』と『着』が両方ある駅の組で数えた。京都→福知山は line-timetable/2393（嵯峨野線・山陰本線京都～福知山）、大阪→福知山は line-timetable/2274（福知山線・JR宝塚線・学研都市線新大阪・木津～福知山）。逆向きは 2396（福知山→京都）・2275（福知山→大阪）。 (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Fukuchiyama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

34.3km

Kyoto Prefecture: 綾部市, 京丹波町, 舞鶴市, 与謝野町, 宮津市
Hyogo Prefecture: 丹波市, 豊岡市, 朝来市, 丹波篠山市

Fukuchiyama City isthis kind of town.

01In Ogura, Yakuno, a Kyoto Prefecture natural monument. The city describes hexagonal columnar joints, 40 to 50 cm across, formed as lava from a volcano it calls the prefecture's only one cooled
02Maki's mound holds three horizontal-entry stone chambers; Obara's hut in Miwa looks like a gabled roof set on the ground
03Kehara in Oe is a hamlet beneath Mount Oe with about 600 terraced fields, 75 minutes from Kyoto by express

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fukuchiyama City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗