Kashiba City

From afar, rock like gathering cranes.

Donzurubo

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Hirano Tsukaanayama Kofun

The chamber of cut tuff blocksis carefully polished throughout its interior.

Hirano Tsukaanayama Kofun is a national historic site on the northeastern foot of Mt. Nijo. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes the main chamber as built of cut tuff blocks, with 21 small cut stones on the floor of the burial chamber, one stone for the back wall, two for each side wall and two for the ceiling. It is said to show one aspect of the final phase of the Kofun period.

National historic site, 1973
21 cut stones on the chamber floor
Interior entirely polished

02 ／ Ninji Haiji site

The pillar seat of a huge underground stoneheld 20 items, from earrings to crystal beads.

Ninji Haiji is a national historic site on a hill at the western edge of the Nara Basin, north of Mt. Nijo. From the pagoda platform came an underground foundation stone 3.8 m in length and width, and its pillar seat held reliquary offerings: 12 earrings, 4 crystal beads, 3 glass beads and 1 knife. The Agency for Cultural Affairs says the temple is thought to have been founded in the late 7th century.

National historic site, 2002
Foundation stone 3.8 m in length and width
20 finds, prefectural designation, 2019

03 ／ Kongosa garnet sand

Garnet sand was dugfrom winter rice paddies.

Kongosa is garnet found in the sand and gravel that built up on low ground as volcanic rock from Mt. Nijo weathered. Hard, at 6.5 to 7.5 where diamond is 10, it was used mainly as an abrasive. Along a river in the city, paddies were dug open-pit in winter until around 1980. A pedestal inscription records that Yasukawa Kametaro of Anamushi was called the "King of Kongosa."

Dug until the mid-Showa 50s (around 1980)
Hardness 6.5 to 7.5
"King of Kongosa" Yasukawa Kametaro

Living here

22 minutes from Osaka Uehommachi to Goido Station.

about 80,000 people
30 min to a city centre

On the Kintetsu Osaka Line, the rapid express takes 22 minutes at the fastest from Osaka Uehommachi to Goido Station (timetable). The city says the JR Wakayama Line and the Kintetsu Osaka and Minami-Osaka lines run through the city center, serving eight stations. It lies in northwestern Nara Prefecture, across the Kongo-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park from Osaka Prefecture.

People living here: 78,113people
Area: 24.26km²
Households: 29,609households
Rent (average for rentals): 59,880yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 56 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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.

Kashiba City in Japan34.541°N 135.699°E

to OsakaKintetsu Osaka Line rapid express22min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026/3/14現在」）。大阪線の大阪上本町駅（slCode=356-0）・五位堂駅（356-20）・近鉄下田駅（356-19）の発車時刻表の各列車を、停車駅発着時刻表（T7）で1本ずつ開き、大阪上本町『発』→各駅『着』（と逆向き）を数えた。平日ダイヤ・土休日ダイヤの両方。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kashiba City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.3km

Nara Prefecture: 葛城市, 上牧町, 王寺町, 広陵町, 大和高田市
Osaka Prefecture: 柏原市, 太子町, 羽曳野市

Kashiba City isthis kind of town.

01Donzurubo is a rock face shaped as pyroclastic flows and ash from Mt. Nijo piled up, rose and eroded; the city says its name comes from the sight of cranes gathered when seen from afar. It is a prefectural natural monument, designated in 1951
02Hirano Tsukaanayama Kofun and Ninji Haiji are both national historic sites, in an area where tombs, kilns and temples were built close together. The tomb has a chamber of cut tuff blocks, and the temple site yielded a pagoda foundation stone and reliquary offerings
03The Ina no Omura bone urn, a National Treasure found in Anamushi in the Meiwa era of the Edo period, is held by the Kyoto National Museum, and a replica is on permanent display at the Nijosan Museum

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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