Oyodo Town

A brick rail gate bears a plaque.

Kusurimizu-mon, arch bridge

Photo by Nankou Oronain (as36… (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Temple ruins

Foundation stones remainat the sites of the east and west pagodas.

Hisodera was a temple whose pagoda foundation stones remain in the grounds of Sesonji. The town thinks it had a Yakushiji-style layout, with pagodas east and west, by the 8th century. The three-story pagoda said to have stood at the east pagoda site was later presented to Mii-dera in Shiga. The site became a national Historic Site in 1927.

National Historic Site, 8 April 1927
8th century: Yakushiji-style layout
East pagoda later went to Mii-dera

02 ／ Great tree and rite

Beneath a zelkova on the Yoshino River bank,water is drawn for a Kashihara shrine.

The Tsutta zelkova grows on the embankment on the north bank of the Yoshino River: 15 m tall, about 8 m around the trunk, with branches spreading 40 m east to west, and an estimated age of 700 years. Every 26 July, water for the summer festival of a shrine in Kashihara is drawn from the riverside below it. The earliest record dates from 1759.

Estimated age of 700 years
Water-drawing rite every 26 July
Earliest record: Horeki 9 (1759)

03 ／ Sarugaku

A sarugaku troupe said to be the root of flute and drumstood in Higaimoto.

The Higaimoto sarugaku troupe was active for about 300 years from the Muromachi to the Edo period, as one of the Yoshino sarugaku troupes, and is said to be the root of the flute and drum schools. A mask by Higaimoto Shichiro bears an inscription of Meio 2 (1493) and is kept at a shrine on Mt. Yoshino. In front of the torii of Higaimoto Hachiman Shrine stands an information board on sarugaku.

A Yoshino sarugaku troupe
Active for about 300 years
Mask inscription: Meio 2 (1493)

Living here

From Osaka Abenobashi, 61 minutes by limited express.

about 20,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Rural district town

The town has six stations on the Kintetsu Yoshino Line, and limited express trains stop at Shimoichiguchi and Fukugami. By the timetable, the fastest limited express from Osaka Abenobashi to Shimoichiguchi takes 61 minutes; the town says about 60 minutes by Kintetsu limited express from Osaka Abenobashi. It also gives about 25 minutes by Kintetsu limited express from Kashihara-jingumae Station.

People living here: 16,728people
Area: 38.1km²
Households: 6,509households
Rent (average for rentals): 28,778yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 12 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.

Oyodo Town in Japan34.391°N 135.790°E

to OsakaKintetsu limited express61min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/T2・T5・T7）。取得は2026-10-14。①下市口駅（uid=89310・吉野線大阪阿部野橋方面〈lineDirection=373-10,1〉）の発車一覧を平日（dw=0）・土休日（dw=1）の4時〜24時、1時間ごとに引き、『特急』『特急さくらライナー（車いす対応車両）』の各列車の停車駅発着表（T7）で、下市口『発』→大阪阿部野橋『着』を数えた（平日15本・土休日14本）。②大阪阿部野橋駅（uid=49364・南大阪線吉野方面〈lineDirection=349-0,1〉）の発車一覧を同じ方法で引き、吉野・橿原神宮前行きの特急の発着表で、阿部野橋『発』→下市口『着』を数えた（平日・土休日とも12本）。作業の控えは $SP/oyodo/（kt_up_wd.json・kt_up_hol.json・kt_down_wd.json・kt_down_hol.json・ktscan.py・ktscan2.py・ktcalc.py） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Oyodo Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.8km

高取町, 吉野町, 御所市, 下市町, 五條市

Oyodo Town isthis kind of town.

01Kusurimizu-mon is a railway viaduct of brick with two arches over a road and a waterway, completed in 1912 (Taisho 1) when the Yoshino Light Railway opened; it is a 2013 Selected Civil Engineering Heritage site of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, and the town calls it a modern heritage site still in use
02Yanagi-no-watashi was a ferry crossing between Kita-Muda and Muda in Yoshino Town on the opposite bank, said to have been opened by Shobo, and is a town-designated historic site; Hokura Kofun, a round tomb known locally as the temporary burial mound of Prince Takeru, is also a town-designated historic site
03On the Oada highland, Oku Tokuhei is said to have started the Kusurimizu orchard in 1902, and Japanese pears have been grown there since; in Nakamasu, the Oyodo town history records a tea-tax system in 1639, and sun-dried bancha is dried in the sun without rolling

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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