Yasu City

Small hall rated a medieval masterpiece.

Osasahara Shrine main hall

Photo by Yusuke.ogawa at Japanese Wikipedia (Public domain)

01 ／ Tumulus

In the stone chamber of a round mound,a coffin 2.85 m long.

Maruyama Kofun in Sakurabasama Historic Park is a round tumulus built in the first half of the 6th century. The house-shaped stone coffin in its stone chamber measures 2.85 m long, 1.46 m wide and 1.83 m high. It is made of Aso welded tuff from the Uto Peninsula in Kumamoto Prefecture, known as Makado stone.

Round tumulus, first half of the 6th century
Coffin 2.85 m long
One tumulus of the national historic site Oiwayama Tumulus Group

02 ／ Bronze bells

Three sets of three nested bellslay in the soil of the hillside.

From Oiwayama, 24 dotaku bronze bells have come to light in all: 14 in 1881 and 10 in 1962. The 1962 bells turned up during earth-moving work. Nine of them had been placed in a pit in the hillside as three nested sets of large, medium and small bells.

1881: 14 bells
1962: 10 bells (Important Cultural Property)
Tokyo National Museum bell no. 1: 134.7 cm tall

03 ／ Festival

Taro is raised for two yearsfor this one festival.

At the autumn festival of Mikami Shrine, shrines made of taro stems, called zuiki mikoshi, are offered as sacred food. The stems are not eaten; the taro is raised from seed tubers over two years for this purpose alone. Five officers chosen from three shrine guilds offer five of them.

Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (2005)
5 zuiki mikoshi
3 shrine guilds

Living here

28 minutes to Kyoto, 58 to Osaka by Special Rapid.

about 50,000 people
60 min to a city centre

The city’s only station is JR Yasu Station. Special Rapid trains on the JR Biwako Line stop here, reaching Kyoto in 28 minutes and Osaka in 58.

People living here: 50,513people
Area: 80.15km²
Households: 19,659households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,153yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 47 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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.

Yasu City in Japan35.068°N 136.026°E

to KyotoJR Special Rapid28min
to OsakaJR Special Rapid58min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（ページの日付は 2026年10月7日）。line-timetable/2234（琵琶湖線・JR京都線・JR神戸線米原～大阪～姫路下り）で野洲『発』→京都『着』・大阪『着』、line-timetable/2235（姫路～大阪～米原上り）で京都『発』・大阪『発』→野洲『着』を、同じ列車の列で数えた（乗り換えなし）。『運転日注意』欄に印の無い新快速の最速は、野洲→京都28分・野洲→大阪58分（3441M＝野洲10:15発→京都10:43着・大阪11:13着ほか）、京都→野洲28分・大阪→野洲58分。平日のみの新快速（印『平』）も同じ28分・58分 (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Yasu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

13.2km

守山市, 近江八幡市, 湖南市, 竜王町, 栗東市

Yasu City isthis kind of town.

01Osasahara Shrine’s main hall, a National Treasure built in 1414, and the Mochi no Miya in its grounds, said to honor the origin of kagami-mochi
02The Oiwayama Tumulus Group, a national historic site; Oiwayama, where 24 bronze bells came to light; Nishigawara, where late 7th-century wooden tablets were found
03The Mikami Zuiki Festival, with mikoshi of taro stems, is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property; Kyoto is 28 minutes by Special Rapid

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yasu City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗