Koryo Town

Waterbird haniwa from a moat projection.

Suyama Kofun, moat projection

Photo by Saigen Jiro (Public domain)

01 ／ Tateyama festival

Displays that take up the year's newsand dress it up with humor.

The Ogaito Tateyama festival is held every August 24 around the Jizo hall of Senko-ji Temple, as an added attraction of the Jizo-bon observance. Local young people display tsukurimono, crafted figures that take up the events and people in that year's news. Its origin is told in two ways: set up as a stand-in against an epidemic, or begun by a local chieftain who set up warrior dolls. It became a town Folk Cultural Property in 1996.

Every August 24, at Jizo-bon
Two origin stories are told
Town Folk Cultural Property, 1996

02 ／ Bakuya Kofun

The 17.1 m stone chamberopens its door by application.

Bakuya Kofun is a three-tiered round tomb about 60 m across and a National Historic Site. The stone chamber opening on the second tier is 17.1 m long, and its main chamber holds a house-shaped sarcophagus of the hollowed-out type. Visits need an application two weeks ahead and the town replies on acceptance; on the day, staff only open the chamber door, with no guide or explanation.

Chamber length 17.1 m
Hollowed-out house-shaped sarcophagus
Application two weeks ahead

03 ／ Mitsuyoshi Ishizuka Kofun

The cylindrical haniwa are replicas,and the tomb has been restored to its original form.

Mitsuyoshi Ishizuka Kofun is a scallop-shaped tomb 45 m long and a Prefectural Historic Site. Its remains were preserved under fill, and the tomb was restored to its form at construction by building up on top. The cylindrical and morning-glory-shaped haniwa are replicas based on excavated finds, and the stone covering is laid as it was originally.

Length 45 m
Prefectural Historic Site, 1992
Cylindrical haniwa are replicas

Living here

The town's only station is Hashio, on the Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

On Kintetsu's station timetable (as of March 14, 2026), every departure from Hashio Station toward Shin-Oji is a local train, on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. The town describes itself as lying in the mid-western Nara Basin, about 30 km in a straight line from Osaka.

People living here: 33,810people
Area: 16.3km²
Households: 11,921households
Rent (average for rentals): 54,013yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 25 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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

Surrounded by 7 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Koryo Town in Japan34.543°N 135.751°E

Territory of Koryo Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.7km

河合町, 大和高田市, 田原本町, 香芝市, 三宅町, 橿原市, 上牧町

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

Koryo Town isthis kind of town.

01Suyama Kofun is a north-facing keyhole-shaped tomb on the Umami Hills that the town presents as a National Special Historic Site. A structure projecting from the mound into the moat on the west side of the front part has yielded waterbird, parasol, shield, house, enclosure and fence haniwa
02The town says boat parts found at the moat's northeast corner appear to be a mofune, a boat for carrying the dead mentioned in the Kojiki, and shows a replica at its Cultural Properties Preservation Center. It also explains the area around Sanuki Shrine as the home of Princess Kaguya, from the name of the bamboo cutter in the tale
03The Kushitamahime no Mikoto Shrine at Hashio holds the Totate festival, in which the floats of four districts are hauled into the shrine every November 2 and 3, according to the national tourism database. The Tenjin Shrine rope-beating at Hirose is a town Folk Cultural Property, and sock making is said to have started at Hikiso

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

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