Miyazu City

Fire-year rebuild, pillars plastered in.

Former Mikami Residence

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Church

Tatami-floored seating for the congregationconveys what the mission was like in its day.

カトリック宮津教会正面.jpg — Photo by 漱石の猫 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

A wooden church built in 1896 (Meiji 29), with a large rose window at the centre of its front. Father Louis Relave designed it, and a local carpenter built it. The Agency for Cultural Affairs' commentary says its tatami-floored seating conveys the mission work of its day, and calls it among the oldest surviving wooden Catholic churches outside Nagasaki.

Built in 1896 (Meiji 29)
Designed by Father Relave
National Important Cultural Property (2024)

02 ／ Wisteria cloth

Seya Village's wisteria weaving is recordedin 1920 at 63 households, 83 people, 295 bolts.

Fujiori(藤織)反物.jpg — Photo by 漱石の猫 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fibre is spun from the bark of mountain wisteria vines and woven into cloth. The Yosa Gunshi records that in Seya Village in 1920 (Taisho 9), 83 people in 63 households wove wisteria as a farm sideline, producing 295 bolts (tan) of cloth. A 1962 Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education survey showed it continued in Kamiseya, and a preservation society formed in 1989.

1920 (Taisho 9): 83 people in 63 households
295 bolts (tan) produced
1989: Tango Fujiori Preservation Society founded

03 ／ Mountain dispute

A mountain boundary set by a 1688 rulingis still carried on as a city boundary.

In 1660 (Manji 3), Kamimiyazu Village and Omata Village (now Omata, Maizuru) disputed the Karakawa-yama boundary. In 1688 (Jokyo 5) the shogunate's ruling upheld Kamimiyazu's claim. The fixed boundary survives as the Miyazu, Maizuru and Fukuchiyama (former Oe) city line, and the ruling's illustrated map was designated by the city in 2026.

1660 (Manji 3): dispute begins
1688 (Jokyo 5): shogunate ruling
Survives as the Miyazu, Maizuru and Fukuchiyama city boundary

Living here

111 minutes from Kyoto on the Hashidate limited express.

about 20,000 people

The gateway is Miyazu Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway. The Hashidate limited express runs from Kyoto without a change; the fastest daily service takes 111 minutes, and the fastest back to Kyoto takes 121. The Former Mikami Residence is about a 15-minute walk from the station.

People living here: 16,758people
Area: 172.74km²
Households: 7,292households
Rent (average for rentals): 33,691yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 23 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

Miyazu City in Japan35.536°N 135.196°E

to KyotoLtd. exp. Hashidate111min

Travel times follow JR西日本「JRおでかけネット」の列車時刻表（特急はしだて1号・5081M。京都 08:38発 → 宮津 10:29着。運転日欄は「毎日運転」。2026-10-08・10・11・12 の4日分を読み、どれも同じ時刻）と、宮津市公式「宮津市バス・鉄道時刻表（2026年秋改正号）」（2026-10-01から。宮豊線・宮舞線〈下り〉の5081M の宮津着 10:29） (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Miyazu 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

26.6km

与謝野町, 舞鶴市, 京丹後市, 伊根町, 福知山市

Miyazu City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Mikami Residence is an Important Cultural Property. A merchant house of sake brewing, shipping and silk-thread wholesale, its main house, which burned in the Miyazu fire, was nearly complete within the same year, with outer walls that plaster over the pillars. It is a component of the Japan Heritage 'Kitamaebune' site (ports of call and ship owners' villages)
02Miyazu Senjasei Yohane Tenshudo, the Catholic church, is an Important Cultural Property; Kamiseya's Tango no Fujiori, wisteria weaving, is a Kyoto Prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property; and the Karakawa-yama dispute's illustrated map was designated by the city in 2026
03Amanohashidate is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and the Amabe-shi Keizu, a clan genealogy, is a National Treasure, both designated within Miyazu; Kyoto is 111 minutes away by Hashidate limited express

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Miyazu City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗