Yosano Town

A nameless king's coffin of granite.

Boat coffin, Ebisuyama Tomb 1

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Residence

The main house of a crepe wholesalerwas moved from Hidaka, Toyooka.

旧尾藤家住宅.jpg — Photo by Tgogogo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The former Bito residence was the home of a wholesaler that prospered on Tango chirimen crepe in Kaya. Its main house is a building moved from what is now Hidaka-cho, Toyooka, and is among the oldest in the district. A new parlour wing with a Western-style reception room went up in 1930, and in 2024 the residence became an Important Cultural Property.

Main house moved from Hidaka-cho, Toyooka
New parlour wing, 1930 (Showa 5)
Important Cultural Property, 19 January 2024

02 ／ Street plan

The base of the bending road isthe street plan of Yasura's castle town.

ちりめん街道クランク.jpg — Photo by Tgogogo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1580 a senior retainer of Hosokawa Fujitaka laid out a castle town along today's street from his base at Yasura Castle. The castle was dismantled after three years, but its street plan became the base of Chirimen Kaido, the "crepe road". The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes the district as keeping "the street plan typical of a castle town, with the road bending like a crank."

Castle town laid out, 1580 (Tensho 8)
Yasura Castle dismantled after 3 years
Selected 27 December 2005

03 ／ Glass bracelet

From a Yayoi-period wooden coffin,a bracelet of pale cobalt blue.

The glass bracelet from Oburominami Tomb No. 1 in former Iwataki is about 9.7 cm across, 5.8 cm inside, and weighs about 170 g. Pale cobalt blue and highly transparent, it lay in a boat-bottom wooden coffin, where the left hand of the buried person is thought to have been. With 11 iron swords and other goods, the tomb is thought to be a king's grave of the region.

About 9.7 cm across, about 170 g
11 iron swords among the grave goods
Late Yayoi period; Important Cultural Property

Living here

Yosano: 2 hours 16 minutes from Kyoto by express.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The gateway is Yosano Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway. Limited Express Hashidate No. 7, leaving Kyoto at 12:25, reaches it without a change in about 2 hours 16 minutes. Trains to Kyoto are No. 2 in the morning and No. 8 in the evening, taking 2 hours 20 to 25 minutes. At other times, change at Fukuchiyama or Amanohashidate onto the Kyoto Tango Railway.

People living here: 20,092people
Area: 108.38km²
Households: 8,038households
Rent (average for rentals): 35,521yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 17 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Yosano Town in Japan35.565°N 135.153°E

to KyotoLtd. exp. Hashidate136min

Travel times follow 京都丹後鉄道（WILLER TRAINS）公式の時刻表PDF（2026年3月14日改正）：与謝野駅の発車時刻表 https://trains.willer.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/299b636d7e2626e4280b182841d29e05.pdf と、宮舞線・宮豊線（下り）https://trains.willer.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/db11cd539ef9e1e69eb6698e2302bbb8.pdf・（上り）https://trains.willer.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/7eb4a7127d6f3457a77f651ae1fcc433.pdf (checked 2026-10-08). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Yosano 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

18.2km

Kyoto Prefecture: 宮津市, 京丹後市, 福知山市
Hyogo Prefecture: 豊岡市

Yosano Town isthis kind of town.

01The boat-shaped stone coffin of Ebisuyama Tomb No. 1 is cut from granite, in a lid and a body; broken clay figures of a dog and a boar were also found at the top of the mound
02The Bito residence of a chirimen wholesaler is an Important Cultural Property, and Chirimen Kaido inherits the street plan of the castle town of Yasura
03From Oburominami Tomb No. 1, thought to be a king's grave of the Yayoi period, came a glass bracelet of pale cobalt blue

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

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