Heguri Town

Heritage policy's origin, the town says.

Udozuka Kofun, stone coffin

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Misato Kofun

A shelf of slab stone, 1.5 m deep,is set on the chamber's back wall.

The town's board of education records that only three tombs in Nara Prefecture, Misato included, have a stone-slab shelf in the burial chamber. The upper part of the chamber was lost after the Pacific War; the back wall and the lower side walls remain. Horse fittings were found around the coffin in the chamber, including nine bell-shaped ornaments found together.

Prefectural historic site, 1975
Chamber 4.9 m long, 2.4 m wide
9 bell-shaped ornaments

02 ／ Jusanzuka mounds

Thirteen mounds stand in a rowon the ridge north of Jusan-toge Pass.

Around the largest mound, the Oyazuka (6 m across, 1 m high), small mounds stand six to the north and six to the south over a stretch of 90 m. The designation includes land on the Yao City, Osaka Prefecture side. In 1933 seven mounds on the south side were excavated, yielding only old coins and small pottery fragments; no burial facility was found.

Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, 1986
13 mounds over 90 m north to south
Oyazuka: 6 m across, 1 m high

03 ／ Kanjo rope hanging

The male rope is 27 m, the female rope 12 m.Both are hung over the Tatsuta River.

In Shidehara, ropes are made in the grounds of Konsho-ji Temple on the second Sunday of January each year and hung over the Tatsuta River about 300 m upstream of Motosanjoguchi Station, the tourism site explains. The male rope carries a male symbol and two dragon legs. The dragon deity of this place is said to have welcomed the monk Gyoki, and Konsho-ji is said to have been built.

Second Sunday of January each year
Male rope 27 m, female rope 12 m
Made in the Konsho-ji grounds

Living here

Three stations in town, all on the Kintetsu Ikoma Line.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town's stations are Motosanjoguchi, Heguri and Tatsutagawa on the Kintetsu Ikoma Line. In Kintetsu's timetable (as of 14 March 2026), every train stopping at Heguri Station, toward Ikoma and toward Oji alike, is a local. The town says the line connects with the Kintetsu Nara Line at Ikoma to the north and the JR Kansai Line at Oji to the south, putting central Nara and Osaka within just under an hour.

People living here: 18,009people
Area: 23.9km²
Households: 7,173households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,596yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 12 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Heguri Town in Japan34.629°N 135.701°E

Territory of Heguri Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.2km

Nara Prefecture: 三郷町, 生駒市, 斑鳩町
Osaka Prefecture: 八尾市, 東大阪市

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

Heguri Town isthis kind of town.

01Udozuka Kofun, a national historic site, is a 60.5 m keyhole-shaped tomb on a hill on the west bank of the Tatsuta River; house-shaped stone coffins are placed in the chamber and passage, and the chamber is locked at its entrance
02The town's board of education records that the chamber of Miyayamazuka Kofun in Tsubai, a prefectural historic site, has walls curving inward in a dome with no ceiling stones, and that the interior is closed to visitors
03The town's board of education records that along the path between the carved Jizo figure and the five-Buddha group of the Kiyotaki stone Buddhas in Narukawa, a town-designated site, a sacred rope is replaced every New Year's Eve

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Heguri Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗