Kumano City

A rope spans cliff top to pine crown.

Otsunakake ritual, Hananoiwaya

01 ／ Tagaito house storehouse

A stone tool storehouse about 5 m on a sideis fitted with cornices and a porch.

The stone storehouse of the Tagaito residence in the Isato district was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2002. A two-story stone tool storehouse of granite from the surrounding area, it is small but has belt and eaves cornices and a gabled porch at the entrance. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes this elaborate look as conspicuous even within the hamlet.

National registered property, 2002
Two-story stone, 29 sq m footprint
About 5 m on a side

02 ／ Boar walls of Obuki Pass

The Obuki Pass road crosses, just before the pass,the walls built to keep boar and deer off the fields.

Just before the pass, the Obuki Pass road of the Kumano Kodo Iseji route crosses a boar wall built in the Edo period. Kankomie, the Mie tourism site, says the walls near the pass were built over about 10 km to keep boar out and still hold their form. The city says the Daikan Inogaki Trail along the walls is complete, as a loop from JR Odomari Station.

Built in the Edo period
About 10 km (Kankomie)
Loop from JR Odomari Station

03 ／ City designations in Suno

A lookout post site, a ship-type drawing andan Aogashima castaways' grave: three in and by Suno.

The city designated the Tategasaki lookout post site, on the Suno-Hobo border, as a historic site in 1969. It designated the ship-type drawing of the lookout post as a painting among its tangible cultural properties in 1999, and the Suno grave of Aogashima castaways as a tangible folk cultural property the same year. Suno is about 30 minutes by car from Kumanoshi Station via Route 311.

Lookout post site, designated 1969
Drawing and grave, designated 1999
About 30 min by car from Kumanoshi Station

Living here

3 hours 6 minutes from Nagoya on the Limited Express Nanki.

about 20,000 people

Forests cover about 88% of the city, which faces the Kumano-nada Sea on the east, and the Kumano River flows along the prefectural border at the southern end. The city merged with Kiwa in November 2005. Six JR Kisei Main Line stations lie in the city, and Kumanoshi is the only one where the Limited Express Nanki stops. The fastest daily service from Nagoya takes 186 minutes.

People living here: 15,965people
Area: 373.35km²
Households: 7,751households
Rent (average for rentals): 27,070yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 26 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-11-01 に新設合併（紀和町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

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.

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Where you can go from here.

Kumano City in Japan33.889°N 136.100°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Nanki186min

Travel times follow JRおでかけネット（JR西日本の時刻検索 timetable.jr-odekake.net）の『列車時刻表』（2026-10-13 に表示。列車ごとに運転日『毎日運転』と各駅の着発時刻が出る）。JR東海公式の時刻表（railway.jr-central.co.jp）は403／404で読めず、JR東海の停車駅表では確かめていない。時刻は JRおでかけネットに出るもの (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Kumano City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

28.9km

Mie Prefecture: 御浜町, 尾鷲市, 紀宝町
Wakayama Prefecture: 北山村, 新宮市
Nara Prefecture: 下北山村, 十津川村, 上北山村

Kumano City isthis kind of town.

01At Hananoiwaya Shrine, a World Heritage site, the Otsunakake ritual stretches a rope of 100 hiro from the top of a cliff about 50 m high to the crown of a large pine about 50 m away; it is a Mie Prefecture intangible folk cultural property held on February 2 and October 2
02A stone storehouse in Isato registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property, boar walls of the Edo period at Obuki Pass, and three city-designated properties in and on the edge of Suno are scattered across the city's mountains and coast
03Onigajo, a national Natural Monument and Place of Scenic Beauty, Maruyama Senmaida, one of Japan's 100 Terraced Rice Fields, Shichiri Mihama, Nachiguro stone used for black go stones, and the birthplace site of Tamoto Kenzo are also in the city

See the town as it is now.

X@Kumano_City ↗

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kumano City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗