Sakurai City

The chamber ceiling is a single stone.

Monjuin Nishi Kofun, cut stone

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Yamada-dera Temple site

The collapsed east corridor survivedburied in the soil.

At Yamada-dera, the central gate, pagoda, main hall and lecture hall line up from south to north, with a corridor enclosing the pagoda and main hall. A survey from 1982 found the collapsed east corridor, and a display rebuilt from the excavated timbers stands in the Asuka Historical Museum, about 300 m to the west.

Special Historic Site, 1952 (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
World Heritage component (city)
Surveys from 1982

02 ／ Kibiike Haiji site

A mound on the pond embankmentproved to be a huge main hall base.

Two large mounds lay on the embankment of Kibiike Pond, made in the Edo period. Excavating the one at the southeast corner in 1997 showed a main hall platform 37 m east-west and 28 m north-south, and the pagoda platform is 30 m on a side. The tourism association sets this beside Yamada-dera's main hall, about 21 m by 18 m.

National historic site, 2002
Main hall base 37 m x 28 m
Pagoda base 30 m on a side

03 ／ Wooden mask

The mask reuses a hoe blade,its edge the head, its base the chin.

A pit in Ota Pond at the Makimuku site, surveyed in fiscal 2007, is presumed to be an unlined well. The wooden mask from it is 26 cm long, 21.6 cm wide and 0.6 cm thick, and reuses a hoe blade of quarter-sawn Cyclobalanopsis oak. The prefecture says it can be understood as a ritual object.

Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property, 2022
26 cm x 21.6 cm
Early Kofun period (first half of 3rd century)

Living here

36 minutes from Osaka Uehommachi by Kintetsu rapid express.

about 50,000 people

On the Kintetsu Osaka Line, the rapid express takes 36 minutes at the fastest from Osaka Uehommachi to Sakurai Station (timetable); daytime semi-express trains take 41 to 46. Sakurai Station is shared by the Kintetsu Osaka Line and the JR Sakurai Line, and the city says City Hall is about a 15-minute walk northwest from its north exit.

People living here: 54,857people
Area: 98.91km²
Households: 22,011households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,431yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 46 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Sakurai City in Japan34.519°N 135.843°E

to OsakaKintetsu Osaka Line rapid express36min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『ダイヤ案内』の経路検索（eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/N2）を、2026-10-14（水）・10-17（土）・10-18（日）に、出発時刻を10〜30分おきに引き、『乗り換え回数0回』の経路の最短（大阪上本町→桜井）を数えた (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Sakurai City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

16.5km

宇陀市, 天理市, 明日香村, 橿原市, 奈良市, 吉野町, 田原本町

Sakurai City isthis kind of town.

01Monjuin Nishi Kofun lies in the grounds of Abe Monjuin Temple and is thought to date from the mid-7th century. The city records that its chamber, built of polished granite cut stone, is 5.1 m long and 2.7 m high, with a ceiling built from one stone and slightly hollowed on the inside
02At Yamada-dera a collapsed east corridor was found buried in the soil, and at Kibiike Haiji a huge main hall platform emerged from a mound in the pond embankment. The Agency for Cultural Affairs notes that Kibiike Haiji may be Kudara-dera
03The Makimuku site is a national historic site, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs notes early burial mounds such as Hashihaka Kofun scattered around it. The Etsutsumi and Onishi no Otsuna ritual, joining a male and a female rope, is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Sakurai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗