Gose City

A hole presumed to drain the pillar pit.

Kosedera, pagoda pillar base

Photo by Enon1979 (Public domain)

01 ／ Takamiya Haiji site

A never-excavated temple site on Mt. Kongowhere Fujiwara Palace-style eave tiles were collected.

Takamiya Haiji is an ancient temple site on a level terrace on the middle slope of Mt. Kongo, at about 550 m above sea level. The city notes that no excavation has ever been carried out there. The foundation stones suggest a main hall facing east, and the tiles collected closely resemble those of Fujiwara Palace and are thought to date from the early 8th century.

National historic site, 1927
About 550 m above sea level
No past excavation (city)

02 ／ Midoro Kofun

A house-shaped coffin in the passagehas a lotus-flower pattern on its lid.

Midoro Kofun is a national historic site covering two tombs, north and south. In the south tomb's passage, a rope-hanging projection on the end of a house-shaped coffin's lid bears a lotus design. The city calls it a well-known example of the union of tomb culture and Buddhist culture, and says the side projections were probably cut down during a later burial.

National historic site, 1961 (both tombs)
Six-petal lotus design (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
One house-shaped coffin each in chamber and passage

03 ／ Gosemachi

The town's layout survives well enough towalk with Edo-period survey maps.

Gosemachi's seware-gesui, or lot-dividing drain, runs down the middle of each block, carrying off water and also marking the lot boundaries. Stone-lined moats also remain at places such as the western edge of Higashi-Gose. The Kenchi Yoshu, a record of the 1742 land survey, and its maps were designated a city cultural property in 2024.

Moat 5 shaku (about 1.5 m) wide
City cultural property, 2024
Four survey maps survive

Living here

City Hall is about an 8-minute walk from JR Gose Station.

about 20,000 people

The city says City Hall is about a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu-Gose Station. Kintetsu-Gose is a station on the Kintetsu Gose Line; in the Kintetsu timetable (as of March 14, 2026), the only train from Osaka-Abenobashi to Kintetsu-Gose without a change is one weekday-morning semi-express. Otherwise passengers change at Shakudo Station.

People living here: 24,096people
Area: 60.58km²
Households: 9,996households
Rent (average for rentals): 29,060yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 29 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Gose City in Japan34.463°N 135.740°E

Territory of Gose City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.6km

Nara Prefecture: 葛城市, 五條市, 高取町, 大淀町, 橿原市, 大和高田市
Osaka Prefecture: 千早赤阪村

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Gose City isthis kind of town.

01Kosedera Pagoda Site is a national historic site, said to be the remains of the Kosedera recorded in the first year of the Shucho era under Emperor Tenmu. The pagoda site keeps its earthen platform, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs records that the foundation stone for the central pillar (shinso) has a socket for the pillar and a hole presumed to have drained that socket outward
02The nogami (field-god) ritual at Noguchi Shrine in Saragi, a city-designated festival, builds a straw serpent over 10 m long, and spectators were once splashed with miso soup. Chihara no Tondo burns a pair of morning-glory-shaped bonfire towers, and the susuki lanterns of the Gose lantern ritual join ten tall lanterns in three tiers; both are prefecturally designated
03The city's tourism page says the foothill terraces of Mt. Kongo and Mt. Katsuragi were the home base of the ancient Katsuragi clan and are thought to have been sacred places for the gods since then. Jo Urugami Kofun, reported in 1916 with a huge stone chamber and coffin, was confirmed by a later survey and designated a national historic site in 2021

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

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