Gojo City

Roadbed to Jodo was finished, but no track was laid.

Former JNR Goshin Line (unbuilt)

01 ／ Lacquer-tapping tools

Lacquer-tapping tools used mainly in Ano,109 pieces in one set, survive.

The centre of Yoshino lacquer production was the Ano district of the former Yoshino-gun. The prefecture's document records that in 1877 (Meiji 10) Nara Prefecture produced over 40 percent of Japan's lacquer sap, most of it from Yoshino-gun. A set of 109 pieces, including a nata hatchet, sickles and 60 urushi-ganna scrapers, is a prefectural tangible folk cultural property.

A set of 109 pieces
1877: Nara over 40 percent
60 urushi-ganna

02 ／ Horike House

The home of a samurai who hosted Go-Daigois said to have become a Southern Court palace.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs database describes Horike House as a late-Muromachi hip-and-gable, thatched house, an Important Cultural Property since 1979. The city records an origin tale for the name Ano: Emperor Go-Murakami named the place Kanafu, and an edict of 1351 (Shohei 6) changed it to Ano.

Late Muromachi, thatched
Important Cultural Property, 1979
Anafu, Kanafu, Ano

03 ／ Goshin Shinmachi

Matsukura Shigemasa's new village streetis lined with latticed townhouses.

The city records that Matsukura Shigemasa is said to have entered Futami Castle in 1608 (Keicho 13) and set up the new village to promote the castle town and gather merchants. It was selected an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 2010. The prefecture says iron-lattice and mushiko windows were the main type in Edo-period townhouses.

Said to enter the castle in 1608
Preservation district, 2010
Edo townhouses: mushiko windows

Living here

From Osaka, 89 minutes on a late-night rapid.

about 30,000 people
90 min to a city centre

The town's gateway is Gojo Station on the JR Wakayama Line. By the JR West timetable, a Regional Rapid leaves Osaka at 22:28 and reaches Gojo at 23:57; it is the only through service without a change that runs every day. There is no daily through service from Gojo to Osaka. The city says the main city hall is about a 5-minute walk from the station's north exit.

People living here: 27,927people
Area: 292.02km²
Households: 10,897households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,040yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 31 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-09-25 に編入合併（西吉野村・大塔村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Gojo City in Japan34.356°N 135.696°E

to OsakaJR Regional Rapid89min

Travel times follow 奈良交通『夜行高速バスやまと号奈良・五條ー東京（新宿）線』の時刻表（2026年7月21日からの時刻表）と運賃カレンダー（2026年9〜11月）。JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』の区間時刻表（大和路線大阪／JR難波〜加茂上り・和歌山線王寺〜高田〜和歌山下り・上り・大和路線加茂〜JR難波／大阪下り。表示日 2026-10-14〈水〉・10-17〈土〉・10-18〈日〉・11-03〈火・祝〉）。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 12 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Gojo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

36.1km

Nara Prefecture: 天川村, 十津川村, 野迫川村, 下市町, 御所市, 大淀町, 上北山村, 黒滝村
Wakayama Prefecture: 橋本市, 高野町
Osaka Prefecture: 千早赤阪村, 河内長野市

Gojo City isthis kind of town.

01The former JNR Goshin Line was a railway planned to link Gojo Station and Shingu Station. The city records that roadbed work between Gojo and Jodo was completed in 1959 (Showa 34), leaving only track laying and similar work, before the project was halted. The Japan Society of Civil Engineers chose the structures as a 2016 Selected Civil Engineering Heritage; the prefecture's tourism guide says bamboo came out of a pier that was blown up, and that iron is thought to have been saved
02Dadado no Onihashiri is held at Nenbutsu-ji Temple on 14 January in most years. A father demon in a red mask with an axe, a mother demon in a blue mask and a child demon in a red mask with a mallet go round the hall with torches in the night rite, designated a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1995
03The city records that Kagiya Yahei, who opened the fireworks maker Kagiya in Edo, is said to have come from Shinohara in Oto-cho. Arasaka Kiln Site is a prefectural historic site, and the city writes that tiles from its 7th-century kilns roofed Kawaradera Temple in Asuka

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Gojo City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗