Yamatokoriyama City

Goldfish lay eggs on "fish nest" plants.

Fish nests, milfoil and clubmoss

Photo by Popbeans (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Hakomoto 13 districts

Thirteen districts passed a vermilion-seal boxmonthly, and the district in turn ran the town.

紺屋町通りDSC09356.jpg — Photo by Yamato Koriyama City Office (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The city's history encyclopedia says 13 of the 14 districts in a 1588 record mark the start of the Hakomoto Thirteen Districts. A box holding documents of privileges was sealed, and in the month it came around, the district's elder took full responsibility for the town's affairs.

13 districts rotate the seal box monthly
14 districts in a 1588 record
Prefectural designation: Koriyama Hakomoto documents, 2007

02 ／ Koriyama Castle site

The main enclosure's stone walls containmany reused stones, including temple foundations.

The Koriyama Castle site became a national historic site in 2022. The city's history encyclopedia records that foundation stones from Heijo-kyo's Rajomon gate and stone jizo figures are built into the keep mound's walls. The Castle Festival began as a service for the stone Buddhas set in the walls.

National historic site, 2022
Many reused stones
Upside-down jizo on the keep mound's north face

03 ／ Gorinto covering hall

Carved pillars shaped like gorinto stand on three sidesof this small ten-shaku-square hall.

Tsutsui Junkei died in 1584 at 36, and the city records that he was moved from Enshoji in Nara to a grave site at another temple in Koriyama. The covering hall has a tiled hipped roof, and inside remain a gorinto stupa for Junkei and a stone lantern donated on the first anniversary of his death.

Important Cultural Property, 1944
Ten-shaku-square, one-bay hall
Momoyama, around 1584-85

Living here

44 minutes to Kyoto by Kintetsu, 46 to Osaka by JR.

about 80,000 people
60 min to a city centre

From Kyoto Station, a Kintetsu Kyoto Line express reaches Kintetsu-Koriyama Station in 44 minutes at the fastest, and from Osaka Station a JR Yamatoji Rapid Service reaches Koriyama Station in 46 (timetable). The two stations are separate; the city says City Hall is about 5 minutes on foot from Kintetsu-Koriyama and about 15 from JR Koriyama.

People living here: 83,285people
Area: 42.69km²
Households: 34,216households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,360yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 75 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Yamatokoriyama City in Japan34.649°N 135.783°E

to KyotoKintetsu Kyoto Line express44min
to OsakaJR Rapid46min

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」）と、JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（timetable.jr-odekake.net。ページの日付 2026年10月14日） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Yamatokoriyama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.9km

奈良市, 天理市, 斑鳩町, 安堵町, 生駒市, 川西町

Yamatokoriyama City isthis kind of town.

01The city explains that goldfish spawn from early April through May, 5 to 6 times about a week apart, laying eggs on fish nests of milfoil and club moss. The nests holding eggs are moved to hatching ponds
02The national historic site Nukatabe kiln site is a 1.5 m kiln that fired Kamakura-period roof tiles, with one of three kilns preserved under a cover. At the prefectural historic site Nishitanaka tile kilns, excavation confirmed seven kilns
03The city explains that the Wakatsuki moat settlement had no moat in a 1307 record, a moat in the making in a 1466 record, and an east-west elongated moat by a 1595 survey. Lotus roots have long been grown around the Tsutsui castle site

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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