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Kumiyama, Kyoto

Kumiyama is a town located in Kuse District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

Kumiyama, Kyoto
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The place

Kumiyama is a town located in Kuse District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2023, the town has an estimated population of 15,444 in 7353 households and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 13.86 square kilometres (5.35 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kumiyama, Kyoto

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Iwashimizu Hachimangū

    Iwashimizu Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Twenty-Two Shrines in the Heian period ranked system of Shinto shrines, and along with the Ise Grand Shrine, one of the two royal ancestral shrines for the Imperial family.

    3 km · Shinto shrine in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nintendo Museum

    The Nintendo Museum is a video game museum located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is owned by the video game company Nintendo and displays a wide variety of products from across the company's history.

    4.9 km · museum in Uji, Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Tennōzan

    Mount Tennō, or Mount Tennōzan, is a mountain in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan. The name originates from a shrine on the mountain dedicated to Gozu Tennō, the ox-headed deity of disease and health.

    5.6 km · mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Shōryūji Castle

    Shōryūji Castle is a castle in Nagaokakyō, Kyoto, Japan.

    5 km · building in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Minase Jingū

    Minase Shrine is a Shinto Shrine in Shimamoto, Osaka The Shrine is dedicated to the veneration of the kami of Emperor Go-Toba, Emperor Tsuchimikado and Emperor Juntoku. In the struggle with the Kamakura shogunate, the three historical figures are united by one common factor—each was overpowered and banished from the Imperial center in Kyoto: Go-Toba was banished to Oki Island, where he died.

    5.5 km · Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shuchiin University

    Shuchiin University is a private university in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, established in 1949. The university is operated by the educational corporation Sōgei Shuchiin and consists of two departments within the Faculty of Humanities: the Department of Buddhist Studies and the Department of Social Welfare.

    4.7 km · Private university in Fushimi-ku, · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ōyamazaki Tile Kiln Site

    The Ōyamazaki Tile Kiln ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of an early Heian period kiln, located in the town of Ōyamazaki, Otokuni District, Kyoto Prefecture in the Kinai region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2006.

    4.8 km · archaeological site in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tai-an

    Tai-an is a Momoyama period chashitsu located at Myōki-an temple in Yamazaki, Kyoto. Tai-an was designed by the great tea master Sen no Rikyū in 1582.

    4.9 km · Tea house in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kuse temple ruins

    Kuse temple ruins is an archeological site with the ruins of a Nara period Buddhist temple located in the Kuzeshigahara neighborhood of the city of Jōyō, Kyoto, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 2007.

    4.9 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hirakawa haiji ato

    Hirakawa temple ruins is an archeological site with the ruins of a Nara period Buddhist temple located in the Hirakawa-Furumiya neighborhood of the city of Jōyō, Kyoto, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1975 with the area under protection expanded in 2008.

    4.6 km · temple in Jōyō, Kyōto · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Kumiyama, Kyoto

Airports
Osaka Itami (ITM), 29 km · Kobe (UKB), 54 km · Kansai (KIX), 67 km
Stations
Chūshojima Station, 5.6 km · JR Ogura Station, 4.9 km · Hashimoto Station, 4.4 km · Mukaijima Station, 5 km · Nagaokakyō Station, 5.5 km
  • Osaka → Kumiyama, Kyoto
    30 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · ¥385–530
  • Kobe → Kumiyama, Kyoto
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · ¥700–960
  • Tokoname → Kumiyama, Kyoto
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · ¥1,620–2,210
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kumiyama, Kyoto

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kumiyama, Kyoto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis line can be a good alternative if you are planning a day trip from Osaka and don't have a JR pass.

From Wikivoyage: Uji, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    882 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,255 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,624 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,790 km

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Around it

Next door to Kumiyama, Kyoto

Kumiyama, Kyoto is 11 km from Hirakata, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.