Kanmaki Town

A black sphere opened 19 years early.

Pegasus monument, town office

Photo by Kansai explorer (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Tomb group

Test digs for housing found a tomb group;the town bought the hill.

Test digs in 2011 for a housing development confirmed several tombs, and development on the northern part of the hill was frozen. According to the town's excavation report, the group was designated a national Historic Site on 7 October 2015, and the town bought the hill area. Tomb 3 is a square mound about 15 m on a side; a Chinese-made mirror with gods and beasts (a gabuntai kanjonyu shinjukyo) came from its wooden coffin.

National Historic Site, 7 October 2015
Tomb 3: square mound about 15 m a side
Thought to date from the mid-3rd century

02 ／ Bronze bell

A bronze bell said to be cast in the same mouldas one from Kamo-Iwakura, Shimane.

Said to have come from Kannonyama in Kanmaki Village in the early Bunka era (from 1804), this is a small kesadasuki-mon bronze bell, about 29.3 cm tall. It is now held by a shrine in Shizuoka and shown at the Toro Museum. The town explains that it matches bell no. 17 from the Kamo-Iwakura site in size and pattern and was cast later from the same mould, and it shows a replica in the town.

About 29.3 cm tall
Shizuoka Prefecture designation, 7 January 1956
Same mould as Kamo-Iwakura bell no. 17 (the town's explanation)

03 ／ Shrine

On a hilltop between Shimomaki and Kanetomi,some stone lanterns bear Kanbun-era dates.

The deity is Izanagi no Mikoto. By the town's guide, the main hall is nagare-zukuri, built in 1879 and rebuilt in 1968. There are no auxiliary shrines in the precincts, and many stone lanterns stand in rows, some with Kanbun-era dates. The shrine cannot be reached by car.

Nagare-zukuri main hall
Built in 1879 (Meiji 12)
Lanterns with Kanbun-era dates

Living here

From Oji Station, 15 minutes by bus.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town; people come by Nara Kotsu bus from JR Oji Station (in Oji Town) or Kintetsu Goido Station (in Kashiba City). The town says about 15 minutes from either station, and by the timetable revised on 14 March 2026 it is 9 minutes from Goido Station to the town office. The town is almost rectangular, 2.1 km east to west and 3.6 km north to south, with an area of 6.14 km².

People living here: 21,714people
Area: 6.14km²
Households: 8,558households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,325yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

Kanmaki Town in Japan34.563°N 135.717°E

to OjiLocal bus15min
to GoidoLocal bus9min

Travel times follow 奈良交通『奈良バスなびweb』（https://navi.narakotsu.co.jp/ 。経路検索API /api/v1.0/search/list と、停留所『上牧町役場』〈stop_code 818〉・王寺駅〈771〉・五位堂駅〈830〉）。2026年3月14日改正の標準発車時刻表。$SP/kanmaki/bus-data.txt に共通便の一覧。PDF の時刻表（https://navi.narakotsu.co.jp/pdf/gene24/00818_021_ja.pdf〈上牧町役場北向きのりば＝王寺駅行き〉・00818_011_ja.pdf〈南向き＝五位堂駅行き〉）にも『2026年3月14日改正』『◇8月13日～15日の平日は土曜日ダイヤで運行します。◇12月30日～1月3日の間は、日祝日ダイヤで運行します』の注記 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Kanmaki Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

3.9km

香芝市, 河合町, 王寺町, 広陵町

Kanmaki Town isthis kind of town.

01The Pegasus monument in front of the town office was made on 8 June 1991; the black sphere stands for the star Alpha and holds a time capsule. It was due to be opened in 2041, but in view of social change such as population decline and an ageing society, the town opened it on 23 October 2022, in the 50th year of town status
02The town infers that the name Kanmaki comes from gently rolling hills suited to grazing, with an upper and a lower pasture. At the Shimomaki tile kiln, a prefectural emergency survey in January 1960 confirmed one climbing kiln of about the Nara period
03The Kanmaki Kudo Kofun Group is the town's first national Historic Site, and the finds from Tomb 3 became a Nara Prefecture designated cultural property on 27 March 2015. The town writes that sasayuri lilies, the town flower, once grew in great numbers in the town's hills

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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