Takatori Town

Miniature cookware was found in a domed chamber.

Yoraku Kanjo Kofun, Yoraku tombs

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Takatori Castle gates

A second gate moved from Takatori Castleand a lord's lower-residence gate are in town.

Takatori Castle was decommissioned in 1873. The temple gate at Kojima-dera is the castle's second gate, moved here, and a town booklet calls it a surviving remnant of the castle (visits are from outside). The front gate of the lord's lower residence was moved and is now a clinic's gate, and the Matsu-no-mon, once the gate of Tosa Elementary School, is partly restored in a children's park.

Second gate, moved to a temple
Lower-residence front gate, now a clinic's
Matsu-no-mon partly restored

02 ／ Ichio Miyazuka Kofun

A hilltop keyhole-shaped tomb holds ahollowed-out, house-shaped sarcophagus.

Ichio Miyazuka Kofun is a keyhole-shaped tomb about 44 m long. In the burial chamber of its horizontal-entrance stone chamber lies a house-shaped sarcophagus of the hollowed-out type (kurinuki-shiki). The national designation commentary estimates that it and Ichio Hakayama Kofun, about 250 m away, were built in succession as chieftains' tombs from the beginning to the first half of the 6th century. The chamber is locked, and visits require an application.

National historic site, 1981 (with Hakayama)
About 44 m long
Chamber visits by application

03 ／ Tosa Kaido

Tiles introducing medicinal herbs areset here and there in the paving.

A town booklet calls the stone paving of Takatori, the medicine town, a "herb encyclopedia," with tiles introducing medicinal herbs set into it. The tourism association says the stones were reused from earthquake-recovery work after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and that the tiles show nine herbs. The town notes that the Nihon Shoki records a medicinal hunt by Empress Suiko.

Herb-introducing tiles in the paving
Nine herbs (tourism association)
Medicinal hunt in the Nihon Shoki

Living here

42 minutes from Osaka Abenobashi by limited express.

about 7,000 people
Rural district town

Tsubosakayama Station on the Kintetsu Yoshino Line is 42 minutes at the fastest from Osaka Abenobashi by limited express with no transfer (Kintetsu route search). The town gives about 50 minutes by train. The population is about 6,000, with one elementary school, one junior high school and one high school. The town says about 800 kofun of various sizes have been confirmed within its borders.

People living here: 6,729people
Area: 25.79km²
Households: 2,320households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Takatori Town in Japan34.450°N 135.793°E

to OsakaKintetsu limited express42min

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）と 2026-10-18（日）の05:00〜22:30、30分おきの出発時刻で引き、『乗り換え回数0回』の経路の最短を数えた（大阪阿部野橋→壺阪山、壺阪山→大阪阿部野橋の両向き）。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Takatori Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.5km

明日香村, 大淀町, 御所市, 橿原市

Takatori Town isthis kind of town.

01Yoraku Kanjo Kofun is a square tomb 36 m on a side built in the first half of the 7th century, one of the national historic site Yoraku Kofun Group; the town says miniature rice-cooking utensils and a silver ring were unearthed from its domed, double-sleeved horizontal-entrance stone chamber
02Takatori Castle ruins, a national historic site, lie at the summit of Mt. Takatori, 583 m high; the town says its layout survives almost intact and its magnificent stone walls convey the castle's presence
03The town board of education's excavation report considers a large pit at the Sada Takayama site to be a signal-fire facility from the late 7th century or later, and reports a stone-lined square pond of the mid-5th century at the Shimizudani site

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takatori Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗