Kudoyama Town

A wooden station stands over a road.

Koyashita Station, opened 1925

Photo by nobu3withfoxy from Iga,Mie, Japan (CC BY 2.0)

01 ／ Miroku-do

The Miroku-do has a Kamakura-periodinner sanctuary and a Muromachi outer hall.

The Miroku-do of Jison-in Temple is a three-bay-by-three-bay building with a pyramidal roof, an Important Cultural Property since 1965. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi's mother, with an inner sanctuary of the Kamakura period and an outer hall of the Muromachi period. The tahoto pagoda in the grounds is prefecturally designated. One explanation of the name Kudoyama is that Kobo Daishi visited his mother nine times a month.

Important Cultural Property, 29 May 1965
Inner sanctuary Kamakura, outer hall Muromachi
Tahoto pagoda: prefectural, 20 April 1994

02 ／ Oni dance

A dance called "Bon no Oni"is said to date from the Muromachi period.

椎出厳島神社.jpg — Photo by Info omcd (CC BY-SA 4.0)

At Shiide Itsukushima Shrine, the dance has been offered to pray for relief from calamity and disease and for a good harvest. It is a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property, held from the evening of 16 August each year. An oni with red hair brandishes a long staff and dances to drums and flutes. Being touched by the oni's staff or breathed on by it is said to act as a mushi-fuji charm.

Prefectural property, 28 May 1964
From the evening of 16 August each year
Said to date from the Muromachi period

03 ／ Satobo

A satobo of a Mt. Koya temple,built in the mid-Edo period.

The former Kayano house was built in the mid-Edo period as a satobo (village residence) of a Mt. Koya temple, known as Fudo-in, and continued until the Meiji era. Its gate, main house and storehouse are town-designated, and the nun Oishi Junkyo often stayed here. The town took it over in 2009 and opened it on 27 January 2010.

Built in the mid-Edo period
Gate, house, storehouse: town-designated, 28 June 1996
Opened 27 January 2010

Living here

From Nanba, 66 minutes by express.

about 4,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Rural district town

The town has four stations on the Nankai Koya Line: Kudoyama, Koyashita, Kami-Kosawa and Shimo-Kosawa. Express trains run from Nanba to Kudoyama Station without a change; counted from the departure times on the station timetable, the fastest takes 62 minutes on weekdays and 66 on weekends and holidays (as of 28 March 2026). The limited express Koya does not stop at Kudoyama Station.

People living here: 3,856people
Area: 44.15km²
Households: 1,528households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Kudoyama Town in Japan34.287°N 135.562°E

to OsakaNankai Koya Line express66min

Travel times follow 南海電鉄の駅時刻表（kensaku.nankai.co.jp。ページに『2026/3/28現在』）の九度山駅・橋本駅・なんば駅の発車時刻表〈平日・土休日〉を全列車読み、なんば→橋本→九度山を同じ急行でつないで数えた。駅時刻表は発車時刻だけなので、なんば『発』→九度山『発』（九度山での停車時間を含む）を数えた。町の外→町の駅の向き。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Kudoyama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.8km

橋本市, 高野町, かつらぎ町

Kudoyama Town isthis kind of town.

01Koyashita Station opened in 1925 at Shiide, a town that prospered as a post town for pilgrims to Mt. Koya; the town's tourism site writes that a wooden station building under which a road passes still stands
02The Choishi-michi pilgrim road from Jison-in Temple to Mt. Koya is a national Historic Site spanning Kudoyama, Koya, Katsuragi and Hashimoto; the Sanada residence site, linked to Sanada Masayuki and his son Yukimura, is a prefectural Historic Site in the town
03Tools for making Koya paper, which about 100 households in the Kosawa and Kawane areas made at its peak around 1918 to 1920, are a town Folk Cultural Property; Tamagawa Gorge, including its waterfalls, became a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty in 1958

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kudoyama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗