Kyotanabe City

Shrine still offering the Hayato dance.

Hayato Dance, Tsukiyomi Shrine

Photo by Zeter114514 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Statue

The National Treasure Eleven-Headed Kannonis a Nara-period wood-core dry lacquer work.

Built up with lacquer over a wooden core, it stands 172.7 cm tall and weighs 66.0 kg. Seven of the small heads above, the right earlobe and the fingers of both hands (except the right fifth) were added later, and a Showa-era repair gave it its present form (Kyotanabe Tourist Association). It is the only National Treasure in the city.

172.7 cm tall
National Treasure, 1953
The city's only National Treasure

02 ／ Farmhouse

An L-shaped thatched roof,an official-residence style unlike an ordinary farmhouse.

Built in 1741 (Kanpo 1) with an irimoya hip-and-gable roof. Old documents from its construction, including the building application (fushin ganjo), survive and are Important Cultural Properties, like the house itself. The Sawai family served as deputies for the Donge-in temple's estate from 1732, and conservation repair was completed in 2007.

Built 1741
Deputies from 1732
Repair completed 2007

03 ／ Garden

The garden around the abbot's quartersdiffers on the south, east and north.

The north garden is a dry-landscape garden said to represent Mount Horai, with a rock about 2 m tall, the Kannon Stone, in its northeast corner. The east garden's stones are said to evoke the sixteen arhats, and the south garden has clipped azaleas and a large cycad. The design is attributed to three men, including Ishikawa Jozan.

Nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty
About 2 m Kannon Stone
Laid out in the early Edo period

Living here

21 minutes from Kyoto Station by Kintetsu express.

about 70,000 people

On the Kintetsu Kyoto Line, the express takes 21 minutes at the fastest from Kyoto Station to Shin-Tanabe Station (timetable). From Shin-Tanabe, the first station the city lists, City Hall is about 1.4 km, or 20 minutes on foot. From JR Kyotanabe Station it is about 1.1 km, or 15 minutes on foot.

People living here: 73,753people
Area: 42.92km²
Households: 31,693households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,507yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

Kyotanabe City in Japan34.814°N 135.768°E

to KyotoKintetsu Kyoto Line express21min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026/3/14現在」）。京都駅（近鉄京都線）の発車時刻表の各列車の停車駅表で、京都『発』→新田辺『着』を数えた。平日は 5時台〜23時台、土休日は 6〜23時台の急行を全部（京都発の急行は奈良・天理・橿原神宮前・大和西大寺・近鉄宮津行き）。 (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Kyotanabe 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

11.3km

Kyoto Prefecture: 精華町, 八幡市, 城陽市, 井手町
Osaka Prefecture: 枚方市
Nara Prefecture: 生駒市

Kyotanabe City isthis kind of town.

01The Osumi Hayato dance is linked to Hayato people who moved here from the Osumi region of Kyushu, and was restored in 1971 (Showa 46) on the model of the Hayato dance handed down at the Hie Shrine in Kagoshima Prefecture. It is offered at Tsukiyomi Shrine and Amatsu Shrine and is a city-designated intangible folk cultural property
02Kannon-ji Temple's wood-core dry lacquer Eleven-Headed Kannon is a National Treasure, the Sawai Family Residence and the main hall and abbot's quarters of Shuon-an (Ikkyu-ji) are Important Cultural Properties, and Shuon-an's garden by the abbot's quarters is a Place of Scenic Beauty
03Osumi Kurumazuka Kofun in the Tsudzuki Kofun Group is a National Historic Site, the Iioka tea fields are a component of a Japan Heritage story, Mount Kannabi is said to have been the southern base point when Heian-kyo was built, and Kyoto is 21 minutes away by Kintetsu express

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kyotanabe City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗