26208 ／ むこうし
Kyoto PrefectureLid bumps are called rope-hanging knobs.
Mozume Kurumazuka Kofun, coffin01 ／ Folk dance
Offered each year at Sekito-ji Temple in Kaide on 3 May, the Flower Festival. The dancers hold fans or sedge hats, and the daimoku chant comes at the end of every piece. A preservation society was formed in the Showa 40s (1965-74), and the dance is a Kyoto Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
02 ／ Shrine
The main hall, a three-bay nagare-zukuri building, was begun in Oei 25 (1418) and raised in Oei 29 (1422). It is an Important Cultural Property. The plaques show it was the villages' shared guardian shrine. The hall sits inside a protective housing, and the 13 auxiliary buildings around it were registered as national Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2015.
03 ／ Palace site
The Daigokuden site became a National Historic Site in 1964 and is now Daigokuden Park. Old Ueda House stands on the site of the palace's inner-enclosure walled corridor. It was moved about 190 m from the east in 1942, was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, and the corridor's line is marked on the paving.
Living here
To JR Mukomachi Station it is 7 minutes from Kyoto on a local train of the Tokaido Main Line, and 34 minutes from Osaka on the JR Rapid. The nearest station to City Hall is Hankyu's Higashi-Muko Station on the Kyoto Line, about a 15-minute walk.
+6.5% since 2015
53,290 → 56,859
6.82km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
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）。line-timetable/2234（琵琶湖線・JR京都線・JR神戸線 米原～大阪～姫路 下り）で京都『発』→向日町『発』、line-timetable/2235（同 上り）で大阪『発』→向日町『発』を、同じ列車の列で数えた。向日町駅の行は『発』だけで『着』の行が無い（停車は1分前後）ので、『発』どうしの差を採った。 (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
4.5km
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