Oyamazaki Town

Kamakura plank storehouse near the peak.

Mikoshi store, Sakatoke Shrine

Photo by 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Residence

A Kyoto Imperial University professor perfectedhis ideal home through repeated trials.

This was Fujii Koji's own house, and the main house dates from 1928 (Showa 3). Efforts to improve the indoor environment were also tried, such as ventilation windows in the gable walls and air intakes under the floor. The main house, Kanshitsu and the tea room, three buildings in all, were designated Important Cultural Properties in 2017.

Main house built 1928
3 buildings, Important Cultural Properties, 2017
Air intakes under the floor

02 ／ Kiln site

The 12 kilns that fired Heian-kyo's roof tileswere standardized in scale.

A site that produced roof tiles for Heian-kyo from the late 8th to the early 9th century. Its existence came to light in a 2004 survey, and it became a National Historic Site in 2006. Groups A and B have 5 kilns each and Group C has 2; the town board of education says they were standardized so that output stayed constant.

12 kilns: 5 each in Groups A and B, 2 in Group C
National Historic Site, 2006
Late 8th to early 9th century

03 ／ Tea room

A National Treasure tea room: two mats, with an alcove.Said to be the work of Sen no Rikyu.

A tea room at the Zen temple Myokian, with a gabled roof of thin wooden shingles. The most widely held view is that it stood in Sen no Rikyu's Yamazaki residence and was passed to the temple's priest. It was designated a National Treasure in 1951.

Two-mat room
National Treasure, 1951

Living here

14 minutes to Kyoto, 28 to Osaka, by JR.

about 20,000 people
30 min to a city centre
Rural district town

From JR Yamazaki Station, the JR Rapid takes 14 minutes to Kyoto and 28 minutes to Osaka. Hankyu's Oyamazaki Station is also in town, and the town says the kiln-site park is an 8-minute walk from either station.

People living here: 15,953people
Area: 5.97km²
Households: 6,549households
Rent (average for rentals): 61,339yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Oyamazaki Town in Japan34.903°N 135.689°E

to KyotoJR Rapid14min
to OsakaJR Rapid28min

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（ＪＲ神戸線・ＪＲ京都線・琵琶湖線米原→姫路下り）で京都『発』→山崎の時刻、line-timetable/2235（同姫路→米原上り）で大阪『発』→山崎の時刻を、同じ列車の列で数えた。山崎駅は『着』の行が無く『発』の行だけなので、山崎の『発』を到着時刻とみなした（停車時間は分の表示に出ない） (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Oyamazaki 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

2.9km

Kyoto Prefecture: 長岡京市, 八幡市, 京都市
Osaka Prefecture: 島本町

Oyamazaki Town isthis kind of town.

01The mikoshi (portable shrine) storehouse of Sakatoke Shrine, near the top of Mount Tennozan, is a plank-walled storehouse and an Important Cultural Property; the town says a tree-ring survey reported a construction date in the early Kamakura period
02The Oyamazaki Kiln Site, where Heian-kyo's roof tiles were fired, is a National Historic Site and a park that marks the kiln positions with ceramic panels and plantings; Chochikukyo is an Important Cultural Property and Taian a National Treasure
03Rikyu Hachimangu holds documents on the history of the oil guild as an Important Cultural Property, and Hoshakuji has Kamakura sculptures of King Enma and his attendants; Kyoto is 14 minutes away by JR Rapid

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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