29385 ／ そにむら
Nara Prefecture 宇陀郡A cliff about 500 m long stands upright.
Byobu-iwa, columnar-jointed wall01 ／ Springs
The Soni Plateau springs lie scattered around Okame Pond and were selected for the Heisei-era list of 100 waters in 2008. The Ministry of the Environment says they supply household water to almost all households and facilities in the Taraji district, and names Mizunomi, where a giant serpent is said to have drunk, as an intake site.
02 ／ Grass burning
Soni Plateau is a grassland covered in susuki silver grass, spreading across the western foot between Mt. Kurosoyama and Mt. Kame, which resembles a turtle's back. The Ministry of the Environment writes that, to conserve the plateau and Okame Pond, the administration and local residents burn the grass once a year, and that the practice is said to date back about a thousand years.
03 ／ Lion dance
The Soni lion dance has been offered every October at the autumn festival of Kadofusa Shrine, said to date from the reign of Emperor Yuryaku. The tourist association writes that the dance has been handed down since about 1720, and that the variety and quality of its set of pieces were praised, leading to its designation as a Nara Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1979.
Living here
There is no railway station in the village; the village names Kintetsu's Nabari Station (in Nabari) and Haibara Station (in Uda) as the nearest. By the Mie Kotsu timetable, a daily bus takes 43 minutes from Nabari Station (west exit) to the Soni Town Office stop, and the village's older access page says about 45 minutes by bus from Nabari.
−16.4% since 2015
2,645 → 1,295
6.48km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
7.7 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 三重交通『路線バス 時刻・運賃・停留所』の経路情報検索（https://www.sanco.co.jp/krs/ 。乗車『名張駅前（西口）』〔停留所ID 5319。1番のりば〕→降車『曽爾役場前』〔ID 5446。2番のりば〕を、2026-10-14（水）・10-17（土）・10-18（日）・11-03（祝）・12-30・2027-01-02 の6日で引いた）。21系統『山粕西』行き。往路：8:03発→8:53着（近大高専前・太良路経由。50分）／10:05発→10:48着（太良路経由。43分。『12月1日～3月31日のみ運転』）／10:05発→11:02着（ファームガーデン経由。57分。『4月1日～11月30日のみ運転』）／12:57発→13:40着（太良路経由。43分）／15:45発→16:28着（太良路経由。43分）。復路（曽爾役場前→名張駅前〔西口〕）：7:02→7:45・9:25→10:08・11:35→12:18（いずれも43分）／14:15→15:15（60分。『4月1日～11月30日のみ運転』）／14:32→15:15（43分。『12月1日～3月31日のみ運転』）。普通片道運賃 1,070円（大人）・540円（小児） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
9.7km
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