Kasagi Town

Evil-warding rope strung over a river.

Asukaji kanjonawa rite

Photo by Miya (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Rock

Push the right-hand point down, and the stone rocks.Push anywhere else, and it will not move.

The Yurugi-ishi stands on the temple's tour of ascetic sites at Kasagidera. The designation text for the National Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty Mount Kasagi lists a "shaking stone" and a "drum stone" among its strange rocks. The prefecture's website says that pressing the pointed right end down makes it rock with a "gotogoto", while pushing or pulling anywhere else does nothing.

National Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty, Mount Kasagi
Only the pointed right end rocks
On the Kasagidera ascetic-sites tour

02 ／ Railway bridge

The two spans completed in 1897received Langer reinforcement in 1926.

The Kizugawa Bridge on the Kansai Main Line has five spans: the 1st and 3rd were completed in 1897, the 2nd in 1926, and the 4th and 5th in 1953. The two 1897 spans gained Langer reinforcement in 1926. It is a 2021 Selected Civil Engineering Heritage site, chosen for extending the life of a Meiji-era bridge through reinforcement and renewal.

1897: 1st and 3rd spans completed
1926: Langer reinforcement
Selected Civil Engineering Heritage, FY2021

03 ／ Yakushido

A thatched village hall on a rise on the north bank,protected by local people.

Homyo-ji stands on a rise along the old Iga road on the north bank of the Kizu River, and its Yakushido is a thatched hall three bays wide across the front. It is thought to date back at least to the first half of the early-modern period. The Prefectural Board of Education calls it the only building in the southern Yamashiro area dating back to the very start of the early-modern period; it was registered by the prefecture in 1994.

Thatched, three bays across the front
Thought to date to the early-modern period or earlier
Prefectural registration, 1994

Living here

8 to 9 minutes from Kamo, hourly in the daytime.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

The town's only station is JR Kasagi on the Kansai Main Line. The Kamo–Kameyama section is a non-electrified single track, and the town says there are no through trains to Osaka or Nagoya, with about one an hour in the daytime. Kasagi is 8 to 9 minutes from Kamo Station by local train.

People living here: 1,144people
Area: 23.52km²
Households: 522households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kasagi Town in Japan34.761°N 135.939°E

Territory of Kasagi Town

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

6.7km

Kyoto Prefecture: 木津川市, 南山城村, 和束町
Nara Prefecture: 奈良市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Kasagi Town isthis kind of town.

01A kanjonawa rope about 30 m long is strung over the Nunome River at Asukaji to keep evil spirits out of the hamlet, and is a prefecturally registered Folk Cultural Property (intangible); the Asukaji district also owns a prefecturally designated Daihannya-kyo set of 588 volumes
02On the Kasagidera ascetic-sites tour is the Yurugi-ishi, which rocks only at its pointed right end; Homyo-ji's Yakushido is a prefecturally registered thatched village hall, and the Kizugawa Bridge on the Kansai Main Line is a Selected Civil Engineering Heritage site
03The Ariichi tea fields and cableway platform site are components of the Japan Heritage story on 800 years of Japanese tea; the town says Kasagi Beach was where sailing boats could go no farther upstream, and the Asukaji submersible bridge sinks under the river when it rises. The only station is JR Kasagi

See the town as it is now.

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

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