Uda City

So twisted, it barely looks like cedar.

Yatsufusa Sugi, Sakurami Shrine

Photo by さかおり (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Someda Tenjinko renga hall

Local warriors took turns as head sponsorof renga sessions before a Tenjin image.

In Someda, local warriors of the area formed a Tenjin confraternity and held renga (linked-verse) sessions again and again. The renga hall in the Kasuga Shrine grounds is thought to date from the mid-18th century, and the 122 renga-related documents and items kept there became an Important Cultural Property in 2015.

Items: national Important Cultural Property, 2015
Hall: prefectural Folk Cultural Property, 1989
122 renga-related items

02 ／ Okunoshiba tumulus group

Haibara stone split into slabsand stacked like brick into a chamber.

The Okunoshiba tumulus group has four mounds, and Mounds 1 and 2, confirmed in a 1971 excavation, are prefectural historic sites. Each chamber is a brick-like stone chamber of local Haibara stone split into slabs, and the mounds are thought to be tombs of officials from the first half to the middle of the 7th century, in the Asuka period. Mound 1 has been relocated.

Prefectural historic site, 1973
Group of four tombs
Early to mid 7th century

03 ／ Uda Matsuyama waterway

Water drawn from the Uda River at the south endruns along both sides of the street in the center.

Uda Matsuyama grew from a castle town into a merchant town. The city explains that a waterway built at the start of the early modern period runs through it, and tourism materials call it the Maekawa. The Matsuyama Nishiguchi Gate (Kuromon, the Black Gate), once the west gate of Matsuyama Castle, is a national historic site.

Selected 2006 as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings
About 17 hectares
Nishiguchi Gate: national historic site, 1931

Living here

42 minutes from Osaka Namba by Kintetsu limited express.

about 30,000 people

On the Kintetsu Osaka Line, the limited express takes 42 minutes at the fastest from Osaka Namba to Haibara Station (timetable). The city was formed in January 2006 by the merger of four towns and villages, Ouda, Utano, Haibara and Muro, and besides the city hall in Haibara, it has a regional office for each former town and village.

People living here: 28,121people
Area: 247.5km²
Households: 10,852households
Rent (average for rentals): 32,554yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 23 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Uda City in Japan34.528°N 135.952°E

to OsakaKintetsu limited express42min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026年3月14日現在」）。大阪難波駅（難波線）の発車時刻表〈平日・土休日〉から、榛原へ向かう特急（賢島・鳥羽・宇治山田・五十鈴川・松阪・名張行き）の停車駅発着表（T7）を全部引き、難波『発』→榛原『着』を数えた。榛原『発』の向き（榛原の駅の時刻表〈平日・土休日〉の大阪方面の特急・快速急行）も同じ表で数えた。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Uda City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

23.1km

Nara Prefecture: 奈良市, 桜井市, 東吉野村, 曽爾村, 吉野町, 山添村
Mie Prefecture: 名張市

Uda City isthis kind of town.

01The Yatsufusa Sugi in the Sakurami Shrine grounds is a cedar whose several trunks twist and tangle, a national Natural Monument designated in 1932
02Uda Matsuyama grew from a castle town into a merchant town and was selected in 2006 as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings; Morino Kyuyakuen, a former medicinal herb garden, is also a national historic site here
03The Fumi no Nemaro tomb in Haibara is a national historic site, and the city explains that its epitaph showed it to be the grave of Fumi no Nemaro, who died in 707; the five-story pagoda of Muro-ji Temple in Muro is a National Treasure

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Uda City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗