Kanan Town

Two round mounds, combined as one tomb.

Kanayama Kofun, twin mounds

Photo by Otraff (CC BY-SA 2.5)

01 ／ Tomb

The inner chamber's walls, floorand ceiling are all single stones.

Tsukamari Kofun belongs to the Hiraishi tumulus group and dates from the final phase of the kofun period; it is said to be likely a large square tumulus. The inner chamber is 2.3 m long and 1.31 m wide and high, and opens to the south. Although looted, it yielded many fragments of a coffin stand, a basket coffin, an iron sword and glass beads.

Final-phase tomb of the Hiraishi group
Inner chamber 2.3 m long, 1.31 m wide and high
Chamber opens to the south

02 ／ Traditional vegetable

The taro native to old Ishikawa Villagehas the alias "collar-hanging."

Ishikawa Wase-imo is a taro native to Ishikawa Village (now Kanan). A blackish-brown patch appears low on the leaf stalk as if a kimono collar were hung there, hence an alias that literally means "collar-hanging". The prefecture records that it is said to have begun with one taro plant that Prince Shotoku brought from Horyuji when he built Eifukuji.

Native to Ishikawa Village (now Kanan)
25th "Naniwa traditional vegetable" (October 2025)
Ishikawa was one of four villages merged into Kanan

03 ／ Historic site

Jiun, who found Saigyo's grave,set up a hermitage and died here.

Hirokawadera is known as the place where Saigyo died. The town records that he passed away at Hirokawadera in Bunji 6 (1190). The monk Jiun sought out Saigyo's grave at this temple, set up a hermitage and built the Saigyo hall, and died here himself. The grounds are a prefectural Historic Site.

Saigyo died at Hirokawadera in Bunji 6 (1190)
Grounds a prefectural Historic Site, 7 Dec 1970
Jiun built the Saigyo hall

Living here

From Tondabayashi Station, 13 minutes by bus.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town describes its main transport as buses, linking to Tondabayashi and Kishi stations on the Kintetsu Nagano Line. The Kongo Furusato Bus's Sakurazaka Loop Line and Shiraki line take 13 minutes from Tondabayashi Station to Kanan Town Office. A third of the town's area, its mountain part, lies in Kongo-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park.

People living here: 15,697people
Area: 25.26km²
Households: 6,392households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,072yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Kanan Town in Japan34.492°N 135.630°E

to TondabayashiLocal bus13min

Travel times follow 河南町公式『金剛ふるさとバス』〈運賃・運行路線等について・更新日 2025-04-01〉の『さくら坂循環線時刻表』PDF（sakurajikoku.pdf・Last-Modified 2023-11-22・保存 $SP/kanan/sakurajikoku.pdf）と、白木線時刻表 PDF（shirakisennojikoku.pdf・Last-Modified 2024-01-29）。さくら坂循環線は『富田林駅 3番のりば』発の全14便が、富田林駅→河南町役場前を13分（6:43→6:56、7:52→8:05、9:20→9:33、10:25→10:38、12:10→12:23、13:15→13:28、14:20→14:33、15:25→15:38、16:30→16:43、17:00→17:13、17:35→17:48、18:50→19:03、19:50→20:03、20:50→21:03）。白木線も富田林駅7:05→河南町役場前7:18ほか全7便が13分。富田林市公式の同じ時刻表（uploaded/attachment/95870.pdf・Last-Modified 2024-03-29・掲載 2024-09-12）も同じ値。協議会作成の『各路線別時刻表』（5rosenbetdujikokuhyou.pdf・Last-Modified 2024-03-11・『2024年2月現在』）の頭に『平日・土日祝日すべて同一ダイヤで運行』 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kanan Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.6km

Osaka Prefecture: 千早赤阪村, 富田林市, 太子町
Nara Prefecture: 葛城市

Kanan Town isthis kind of town.

01Kanayama Kofun is a twin-mound tomb joining a large and a small round mound. The north mound has a horizontal stone chamber about 10 m long holding two house-shaped sarcophagi; it is a national Historic Site developed as a park. The Ichisuka Kofun Group, also a national Historic Site, spreads over the hills from Taishi to Kanan
02The Hiraishi tumulus group includes Tsukamari Kofun and Akahage Kofun, whose size the town says is second only to the imperial tombs of the early 7th century. Ishikawa Wase-imo, native to Ishikawa Village, became the prefecture's 25th Naniwa traditional vegetable in 2025
03Hirokawadera is where Saigyo died, and its grounds are a prefectural Historic Site. The monk Jiun sought out Saigyo's grave at the temple and set up a hermitage there

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kanan Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗