Tenri City

The central bay is a floorless passage.

Izumotakeo Shrine, wari-haiden

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Tonewase persimmon

The original tree still bears Hiratanenashion one branch and Tonewase on the other.

刀根早生柿発祥の地碑.jpg — Photo by Asset utilitist (CC0)

In 1959, at a persimmon orchard in Kayo-cho, a Hiratanenashi tree was broken by a typhoon. According to the prefecture, a Hiratanenashi scion was grafted onto it and the tree bore fruit earlier than before, and it was named Tonewase after the orchard's owner. The prefecture says the original tree has Hiratanenashi on one branch and Tonewase on the other.

Tree broken by a typhoon in 1959
Original tree bears both varieties
Nara Prefecture's Kayo persimmon page

02 ／ Gochido hall

A thick central pillar carriesmost of the hall's weight.

This one-bay-square hall with a pyramidal roof stands in a detached part of Chogaku-ji Temple's grounds, to the west of the temple. Chogaku-ji says the thick central pillar bears most of the building's weight, that a plaque of Sanskrit characters for four Buddhas sits at the top of the pillar, and that the whole represents the Five Wisdom Buddhas. Except for its supporting posts it is open on all four sides, which is why it is also called Kasa-do, the umbrella hall.

Important Cultural Property, 1908
Late Kamakura period
One bay square, pyramidal roof

03 ／ Akatsuchiyama Kofun

The stones and house-shaped haniwaof the projecting platform are restored on display.

Akatsuchiyama Kofun in Ichinomoto-cho is a nationally designated historic site. It opened to the public on 14 April 2010, and the city says visitors can see the restored house-shaped haniwa ritual site. The tourism association says the house-shaped haniwa were arranged as if to recreate the residence of the person buried in the tomb.

National historic site, 1992
Opened to the public 14 April 2010
Restored house-shaped haniwa site

Living here

61 minutes from Kyoto by Kintetsu express, no transfer.

about 60,000 people
60 min to a city centre

A Kintetsu express runs from Kyoto Station to Tenri Station without a transfer, and the fastest service that runs on both weekdays and weekends/holidays takes 61 minutes (timetable). The express from Osaka Namba runs once a day and takes 56 minutes. The city has three Kintetsu Tenri Line stations and four JR Manyo Mahoroba Line stations, and says Tenri Station, where the two lines meet, gives convenient access to many places.

People living here: 63,889people
Area: 86.42km²
Households: 25,619households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,201yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 39 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Tenri City in Japan34.597°N 135.837°E

to KyotoKintetsu Kyoto Line express61min
to OsakaKintetsu Nara Line express56min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026/3/14現在」）の天理駅（天理線・slCode 354-3）・京都駅（京都線・360-0）・大阪難波駅（難波線・350-0）の発車時刻表の、平日と土休日を朝5時台〜深夜まで全部たどり、天理行き・天理発の各列車の停車駅表から『発』→『着』を数えた（第1段）。第2段（2026-10-14）に、京都駅の発車時刻表（平日・土休日）で14:56発『天理急行』が両方にあることを確かめ直した (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Tenri City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.7km

奈良市, 桜井市, 田原本町, 大和郡山市, 川西町, 三宅町

Tenri City isthis kind of town.

01Izumotakeo Shrine's national treasure hall was once the worship hall of the Sumiyoshi shrine, the tutelary shrine of Uchiyama Eikyu-ji Temple, and was moved in 1914 to serve as the worship hall of an auxiliary shrine of Isonokami Jingu. Only the central one of its five bays has no floor and serves as a passage to the main shrine; this form is called wari-haiden, and a record says its present scale dates from 1300
02Kurozuka Kofun in Yanagimoto-cho is a national historic site; the city says its pit-style stone chamber is about 8.3 m long and held 33 triangular-rimmed mirrors with deities and beasts (sankakubuchi shinjukyo). The city-run Kurozuka Kofun Exhibition Hall has a full-scale reproduction of the chamber and replicas of the mirrors
03The annual festival of Oyamato Shrine in Shinsen-cho, known as the Chanchan Matsuri, is held by parishioners of the nine towns of the former Oyamato district, each town choosing a head household for one year at a time; it was designated an Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Nara Prefecture in 2018

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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