Information as of 13 August 2026
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Moving to Ayabe City
Ayabe sits almost in the centre of Kyoto Prefecture, on the middle reaches of the Yuragawa. Because the Sanin Main Line and the Maizuru Line part company at Ayabe Station, you can reach both Kyoto and Maizuru without changing trains. Kyoto is 1 hr 4 min and ¥3,070 by limited express; Osaka is 1 hr 47 min and ¥3,710. Of all the cities in northern Kyoto Prefecture, this is the closest one to Kyoto. There are 29 second-hand detached houses on the market, which is not a large number, but the cheapest is ¥1,000,000 and 21 of the 29 are ¥10,000,000 or less. For earthquakes, the city is not designated under the Nankai Trough disaster management promotion area. The probability of shaking of Shindo 6-lower or above within 30 years is 4.0% (at the city hall). Here we go through the city's four districts in turn — the houses on the market now, the water of the Yuragawa, the grants available in the mountain villages known as the "villages at the headwaters", and the hospitals and schools.
National and quasi-national parks: Kyoto Tamba Highlands Quasi-National Park / Hot springs and day baths: Ichinoyu, Sakae Onsen, Kyo-Ayabe Miyabi Onsen; Daikazoku no Yu
Sources: national and quasi-national parks determined from Ministry of the Environment boundary data and other sources (details in §17) (verified 2026-08-21) / hot springs and day baths from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) (verified 2026-08-20). 🔴 Only what is present is shown — a town without a given item is not inferior for it.
Last verified 2026-08-13
CHAPTER 01First, what kind of place Ayabe is
About 76 km north-west of Kyoto Station. The city covers 347.10 km², and the Yuragawa runs through the middle of it from east to west. The town centre and the farmland sit on the narrow flat land along the river, and from there the Kanbayashi valley stretches a long way north to the Fukui prefectural boundary. This is the birthplace of Gunze (founded in Meiji 29 as Gunze Seishi), and also the town where the head office of Oomoto stands. The phrase "village at the headwaters", now used across the country, began here too, when Ayabe City wrote it into a by-law in Heisei 19.
Map of Ayabe City
You can zoom and pan. The marker is Ayabe City Hall. The river running east–west through the town centre is the Yuragawa; downstream to the west (left) is Fukuchiyama, and upstream to the east (right) are Kyotamba and Nantan. The long narrow valley running north (up) is the Kanbayashi valley, and Maizuru is to the north-west.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
What should I know first about moving to Ayabe?
About 76 km north-west of Kyoto Station, the Yuragawa runs east to west through the middle of the city's 347.10 km², with the town centre and farmland on the narrow flat land along the river. The phrase "village at the headwaters", now used across the country, began when Ayabe City wrote it into a by-law in Heisei 19.
CHAPTER 02Four areas, and life in each
Most of Ayabe's 347.10 km² is forest, with the Yuragawa running east to west through the middle. People live on the narrow flat land along the river, so what separates one area from another is how far it is from the river and how deep it sits in the mountains. The median of the 29 listings runs from ¥5,000,000 to ¥8,800,000 depending on the district — among the lowest of any area covered on this site.
There are four districts
| District | Rough elevation | Nearest station | What it is like / price range of the listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Around Ayabe Station the town centre | 40〜100m | Ayabe | The city hall, the Gunze Memorial Museum and Ayabe Gunze Square. The part of the city you can walk to from a limited-express station. ¥3,000,000 to ¥42,000,000 (7 listings) |
| Takatsu, Oshima & Iden the western farmland | 30〜50m | Takatsu, Ayabe | Flat land along the Yuragawa, continuing towards Fukuchiyama. The most listings in the city, at 10. ¥2,000,000 to ¥18,990,000 |
| Sakuragaoka, Fuchigaki & Takanosu the eastern hills | 60〜110m | Fuchigaki, Yamaga | Housing laid out on the hills east of the town centre, and the hamlets along the Maizuru and Sanin Main Lines. ¥1,000,000 to ¥33,800,000 (7 listings) |
| The northern and eastern valleys the villages at the headwaters | 110〜250m | by car, Ayabus | The Kanbayashi valley and Tokura, Mutsuai and Iizumi. The part of the city where the "village at the headwaters" grants and housing subsidies apply (§8). ¥2,300,000 to ¥12,000,000 (5 listings) |
How the districts and the stations sit
There are four stations in the city — Ayabe, Takatsu and Yamaga on the Sanin Main Line, and Fuchigaki on the Maizuru Line. The Kanbayashi valley to the north has no station, so getting to Ayabe Station means a car or the "Ayabus". Positions, bearings and scale follow the actual coordinates (stations from OpenStreetMap, districts from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan). You can scroll sideways.
How life differs by district
The prices and elevations are the medians of the listings on the market now (29 on SUUMO).
Suits — anyone who wants to live without a car, or to travel to Kyoto by limited express
Worth knowing — the Yuragawa has flooded Ayabe again and again (§5). Even at 43 m, check the specific address
Suits — anyone who wants farmland around them and a station within reach
Worth knowing — this is the lowest-lying part of the city. Look at the Yuragawa flood projections before you decide
Suits — anyone who wants to be a little above the river
Worth knowing — even so the median is ¥8,800,000. Another way of putting it is that Ayabe is inexpensive wherever you buy
Suits — anyone who wants to live in a mountain village
Worth knowing — there are 1,671 landslide warning zones in the city (§5). Winters bring snow and hard cold, and a car is assumed
Which part of Ayabe should I live in?
What separates one area from another is how far it is from the river and how deep it sits in the mountains. The median of the 29 listings runs from ¥5,000,000 to ¥8,800,000 by district, and the most listings are in the western farmland (Takatsu, Oshima and Iden) with 10, at ¥2,000,000 to ¥18,990,000.
CHAPTER 03Trains and cars — how you get around
Ayabe's strength is "one limited express to Kyoto, 1 hr 4 min, ¥3,070". Not many cities of 30,000 people have a direct train to Kyoto Station. At Ayabe Station the tracks divide three ways.
Kyoto is one limited express away, 1 hr 4 min
Ayabe is the station where the Sanin Main Line coming up from Kyoto parts from the Maizuru Line. The Kinosaki, Hashidate and Maizuru limited expresses all stop here.
| Section | Time | One way |
|---|---|---|
| Ayabe → Kyoto JR Sanin Main Line, no change | 1 hr 4 min by ltd. express 1 hr 36 min on local trains | ¥3,070 (76.2 km / ¥1,340 fare + ¥1,730 reserved limited express) On local trains alone it is ¥1,340. There are 30 trains a day towards Kyoto (14 of them limited expresses), first at 4:59 and last at 21:53 |
| Ayabe → Osaka one change at Kyoto | 1 hr 47 min | ¥3,710 (119.0 km). Changing to the Kounotori limited express at Fukuchiyama takes 2 hr 6 min and ¥4,700 |
| Tokyo → Ayabe one change at Kyoto | 3 hr 27 min at best | ¥17,000 (589.8 km / ¥9,460 fare + ¥5,810 reserved Nozomi + ¥1,730 reserved limited express) |
| Ayabe → Fukuchiyama | 12 min by local | ¥240 (12.3 km), no change |
| Ayabe → Nishi-Maizuru | 23 min by local | ¥330 (19.5 km), no change |
| Ayabe → Higashi-Maizuru | 31 min by local | ¥510 (26.4 km), no change |
Going to Kyoto — Kyoto 8:38 [Hashidate No. 1 limited express, 64 min, no change] → Ayabe 9:42. There are 14 limited expresses a day in the up direction alone, more than Fukuchiyama's 11. On local trains it is Ayabe 8:03 [Sanin Line local, 59 min] → Sonobe 9:02 → [change, 2 min] → Sonobe 9:04 [Sagano Line rapid, 35 min] → Kyoto 9:39, 1 hr 36 min and ¥1,340.
Going to Osaka — Osaka 9:45 [JR Kyoto Line special rapid, 29 min] → Kyoto 10:14 → [change, 11 min] → Kyoto 10:25 [Hashidate No. 5 limited express, 67 min] → Ayabe 11:32. 1 hr 47 min in all, ¥3,710. No Shinkansen is involved, so the only extra is the ¥1,730 limited express ticket.
Coming home from Tokyo — Tokyo 6:15 [Nozomi No. 3, 2 hr 9 min] → Kyoto 8:24 → [change, 14 min] → Kyoto 8:38 [Hashidate No. 1 limited express, 64 min] → Ayabe 9:42. 3 hr 27 min in all, ¥17,000. Of the cities in northern Kyoto Prefecture, this is the quickest one to reach from Tokyo. Sources: times and fares from JR West "My Daiya" timetable and fare search / train counts from JR West, Ayabe Station timetable (towards Sonobe and Kyoto) and the same for Nishi-Maizuru and Higashi-Maizuru (revision of 14 March 2026; every service running on Wednesday 19 August 2026 tallied by this site) / verified 2026-08-13
At Ayabe Station the tracks divide three ways
Towards Kyoto the line becomes double track beyond Sonobe and trains grow more frequent. Towards Maizuru it runs through Fuchigaki and Umezako to Nishi-Maizuru and Higashi-Maizuru. Towards Fukuchiyama it runs through Takatsu and Isa in 12 min. Positions, bearings and scale follow the actual coordinates (station coordinates from OpenStreetMap). You can scroll sideways.
Cars — the Kyoto Jukan and the Maizuru-Wakasa expressways cross here
Ayabe is the city where the Kyoto Jukan Expressway and the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway connect. It is linked by expressway to the city of Kyoto, to the Japan Sea coast at Maizuru, and towards Fukui. In the valley districts a car is assumed, and winter calls for snow preparation.
✈ Airports
The nearest is Osaka International Airport (a hub airport under company management), about 64.3 km in a straight line. Next is Kobe Airport (about 81.3 km in a straight line). 🔴 These are straight-line distances. They are not road distances or journey times — check each operator's timetable for how you would actually travel.
🛣 Expressway junctions
This area has 5 entry and exit points (interchanges and junctions).
Tamba-Ayabe Road = Kyotamba-Wachi, Ayabe-Ankokuji
Kinki Expressway Tsuruga Route = Ayabe, Ayabe PA
Ayabe-Miyazu Road = Ayabe JCT
How long does it take from Ayabe to Kyoto?
From Ayabe Station to Kyoto it is one limited express, 1 hr 4 min, ¥3,070 with no change. There are 30 trains a day towards Kyoto (14 of them limited expresses), the first at 4:59 and the last at 21:53.
CHAPTER 04Homes actually on the market right now
SUUMO has 29 listings for second-hand detached houses in Ayabe City. All 29 listed have been retrieved, and the 20 cheapest are shown. Tapping anywhere on a row opens the SUUMO listing page.
"Nearest the station first" converts everything to minutes — a walk of ◯ min, ◯ min by bus plus ◯ min from the stop, ◯ km by car (reckoned at 30 km/h) — and compares those. Listings with no such information always appear last, whatever the sort.
Takanosu-cho 上長瀬30¥1,000,000Sakuragaoka, Fuchigaki & Takanosu (the eastern hills)Elev. approx. 60 m / Land 279 m² (84 tsubo) / Building 73 m² (22 tsubo) / built 1965 / Yamaga Sta. 19 min walk10 photos →
Sato-cho 西ノ糸¥2,000,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 113 m² (34 tsubo) / Building 58 m² (17 tsubo) / built 1972 / Ayabe Sta. 22 min walk8 photos →
Bessho-cho 義半¥2,300,000The northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters)Elev. approx. 110 m / Land 327 m² (99 tsubo) / Building 174 m² (53 tsubo) / built 1964 / Ayabe Sta. bus 46 min+2 min walk9 photos →
Oka-cho 弓場¥2,500,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 69 m² (21 tsubo) / Building 66 m² (20 tsubo) / built 1968 / Ayabe Sta. 23 min walk9 photos →
Kawaito-cho¥3,000,000Around Ayabe Station (the town centre)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 132 m² (40 tsubo) / Building 66 m² (20 tsubo) / built 1964 / Ayabe Sta. 14 min walk9 photos →
Mikata-cho 薬師谷¥3,000,000Around Ayabe Station (the town centre)Elev. approx. 100 m / Land 244 m² (74 tsubo) / Building 76 m² (23 tsubo) / built 1974 / Ayabe Sta. 34 min walk3 photos →
Mutsuai-cho 下引地¥3,300,000The northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters)Elev. approx. 140 m / Land 993 m² (300 tsubo) / Building 205 m² (62 tsubo) / built 1965 / Ayabe Sta. bus 22 min+1 min walk8 photos →
Tano-cho 風久呂¥3,800,000Sakuragaoka, Fuchigaki & Takanosu (the eastern hills)Elev. approx. 80 m / Land 229 m² (69 tsubo) / Building 82 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1975 / Ayabe Sta. 37 min walk9 photos →
Mikata-cho 薬師谷¥3,980,000Around Ayabe Station (the town centre)Elev. approx. 100 m / Land 250 m² (75 tsubo) / Building 101 m² (30 tsubo) / built 1981 / Ayabe Sta. 34 min walk10 photos →
Oshima-cho 大籔¥4,500,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 82 m² (25 tsubo) / Building 92 m² (28 tsubo) / built 1978 / Ayabe Sta. bus 7 min+1 min walk10 photos →
Mikata-cho 舟ノ上¥5,000,000Around Ayabe Station (the town centre)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 678 m² (205 tsubo) / Building 121 m² (37 tsubo) / built 1887 / Ayabe Sta. 26 min walk10 photos →
Uwanobu-cho 蛭子¥5,000,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 50 m / Land 190 m² (57 tsubo) / Building 100 m² (30 tsubo) / built 1993 / Ayabe Sta. 25 min walk10 photos →
Tokura Nabatake-cho 古気良谷¥5,000,000The northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters)Elev. approx. 140 m / Land 6442 m² (1949 tsubo) / Building 102 m² (31 tsubo) / built 1957 / Ayabe Sta. bus 24 min+6 min walk1 photos →
Iden-cho 岼¥5,500,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 274 m² (83 tsubo) / Building 143 m² (43 tsubo) / built 1969 / Ayabe Sta. 40 min walk10 photos →
Shingu-cho¥6,100,000Around Ayabe Station (the town centre)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 82 m² (25 tsubo) / Building 98 m² (30 tsubo) / built 1989 / Ayabe Sta. 19 min walk10 photos →
Iizumi-cho 太郎垣¥6,800,000The northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters)Elev. approx. 250 m / Land 229 m² (69 tsubo) / Building 82 m² (25 tsubo) / built 2008 / 市野瀬 bus stop to 3.2km7 photos →
Fuchigaki-cho 兵谷¥8,000,000Sakuragaoka, Fuchigaki & Takanosu (the eastern hills)Elev. approx. 80 m / Land 174 m² (53 tsubo) / Building 95 m² (29 tsubo) / built 2005 / Fuchigaki Sta. 19 min walk10 photos →
Shimoyata-cho 八ケ谷¥8,800,000Sakuragaoka, Fuchigaki & Takanosu (the eastern hills)Elev. approx. 60 m / Land 746 m² (226 tsubo) / Building 183 m² (55 tsubo) / built 1973 / Ayabe Sta. 41 min walk10 photos →
Oshima-cho 岡ノ段¥9,000,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 207 m² (63 tsubo) / Building 152 m² (46 tsubo) / built 1988 / Takatsu Sta. 17 min walk7 photos →
Takatsu-cho 市ノ坪¥9,800,000Takatsu, Oshima & Iden (the western farmland)Elev. approx. 30 m / Land 336 m² (102 tsubo) / Building 128 m² (39 tsubo) / built 1980 / Takatsu Sta. 6 min walk10 photos →
The photographs are the images carried on SUUMO. They disappear once a listing ends. Check the real condition of a property on site.
See all 29 on SUUMO →1. How high it stands above the Yuragawa. The town centre is around 40 m, the western farmland 30 to 50 m. The Yuragawa has flooded Ayabe before (§5). Once you have a specific address, look up the projected flood depth on the city's hazard map.
2. Public sewer or septic tank. Sewerage reaches 53.5% of Ayabe City, with 12.1% on rural community wastewater systems and 21.4% on combined septic tanks (end of FY Reiwa 6). Houses in the valleys are likely to be on a septic tank, which means annual costs for maintenance, cleaning and the statutory inspection. Of the three cities of northern Kyoto Prefecture, this is the point that most needs checking in Ayabe.
3. Whether it is in a designated "village at the headwaters". If you move into a designated village, the city's settlement support grant (up to ¥300,000) and housing improvement subsidy (up to ¥900,000) apply. Buy in the town centre and neither of them does (§8). Sources: Kyoto Prefecture, FY Reiwa 6 wastewater treatment coverage / Ayabe City, recruiting settlers for the villages at the headwaters / verified 2026-08-13
Akiya bank — 2 listings
All 2 houses on the market that are registered on the At Home municipal akiya bank (as verified on 17 August 2026). They are listed cheapest first.
What is the cheapest house you can buy in Ayabe?
SUUMO has 29 second-hand detached houses, and the cheapest is ¥1,000,000 at Takanosu-cho Kaminagase (built 1965, land 279 m²).
CHAPTER 05Is the ground safe?
Is this town inside a national earthquake-preparedness zone?
For each major earthquake, national law designates the areas where preparation is to be advanced. Whether a town is designated tells you directly how the national government views the shaking and tsunami expected there.
| Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area | Not designated |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area | Not applicable (the whole of Kyoto Prefecture is outside this scheme) |
| Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area | Not applicable (the whole of Kyoto Prefecture is outside this scheme) |
| Shaking of intensity 6-lower or above within 30 years | 4.0% (1.0% for Shindo 6-upper or above) At Ayabe City Hall. Surface ground AVS30 324 m/s, valley-floor lowland |
Look up an address on J-SHIS → Designations from the Cabinet Office list of designated municipalities (Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area／Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area／Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area ) / probability and surface ground from theNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, J-SHIS earthquake hazard information API (2024 edition, average case, all earthquakes), queried at the town hall coordinates / verified 2026-08-13
The Yuragawa has flooded Ayabe again and again
Ayabe lies on the middle reaches of the Yuragawa. Rain that falls upstream in Kyotamba and Nantan passes through here and on down to Fukuchiyama. The town centre and the hamlets stand in a line along the river — that is the shape of this city. The floods recorded on the Yuragawa by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism are as follows.
| When | What has happened in the Yuragawa basin |
|---|---|
| Meiji 29 (1896) (1896) | 200 dead, 371 houses swept away or destroyed |
| Showa 28 (1953) (1953) | Peak flow 6,500 m³/s |
| October Heisei 16 (2004) Typhoon No. 23 | Over 250 mm of rain in total. 5 dead, 1,251 houses flooded above floor level, 418 below |
| September Heisei 25 (2013) Typhoon No. 18 | About 1,600 houses flooded, about 2,500 ha inundated |
| August Heisei 26 (2014) the August downpour | 1,155 houses flooded above floor level, 1,296 below |
In response the state is carrying out the Yuragawa river system improvement plan. On the middle reaches — the stretch that includes Ayabe — a continuous levee at Nammatsu and channel excavation at Kuri-cho are under way, and the FY Reiwa 4 progress report records that this work is being done. On the lower reaches within Maizuru City, the "Yuragawa emergency flood control programme" was completed in February Reiwa 4, using ring levees and raised house plots.
Source:Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Fukuchiyama River and National Highway Office, "Water disasters on the Yuragawa and the measures taken"／The same, "Progress on the Yuragawa river system improvement plan (FY Reiwa 4)" (PDF)/ Verified 2026-08-13There are 1,671 landslide warning zones in the city
Kyoto Prefecture has designated 1,671 landslide warning zones in 90 districts in Ayabe City. Most of the city's 347.10 km² is forest, and the hamlets of the Kanbayashi valley and of Tokura and Mutsuai are scattered along the valley floors. For any property near the foot of a slope, check on the map whether it falls inside a zone or outside it.
Source:Kyoto Prefecture, designated landslide warning zones/ Verified 2026-08-13Checking for yourself whether this lot is safe
Ayabe City hazard map → Ayabe City crisis management portal → Yuragawa river system flood inundation projection maps (MLIT) → River disaster information (Yuragawa water levels, MLIT) → Kyoto Prefecture, landslide warning zones → Overlay hazard map (MLIT) → J-SHIS earthquake hazard →Is the disaster risk high in Ayabe?
None of the three national programme areas applies here, and the chance of shaking of Shindo 6-lower or above within 30 years is 4.0% (1.0% for 6-upper or above). The city hall, however, stands on valley-floor lowland, and the Yuragawa has flooded Ayabe again and again. Look up the hazard map for the specific address.
CHAPTER 06What summer and winter are like
The Japan Meteorological Agency's Ayabe station measures rainfall only, so there is no long-term average for temperature (the average annual rainfall is 1,604.3 mm). For temperature we use the Fukuchiyama station, about 12 km to the west in the same basin along the Yuragawa. Ayabe and Fukuchiyama are 12 min apart by train and their terrain is much alike.
The twelve months of temperature, set out as they are
The left end of each bar is that month's mean daily low and the right end its mean daily high (Ayabe area (Fukuchiyama), 30-year average 1991–2020).
These are the numbers for how summer nights and winter mornings compare with Tokyo
| Days per year | Ayabe area (Fukuchiyama) | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights minimum 25°C or above | 6.0 days | 17.8 days |
| Days above 35°C maximum 35°C or above | 13.7 days | 4.8 days |
| Days above 30°C maximum 30°C or above | 65.0 days | 52.1 days |
| Frost days minimum below 0°C | 54.0 days | 15.2 days |
| Days below freezing all day maximum below 0°C | 0.1 days | 0.0 days |
What tells is not the mean temperature but "13.7 days above 35°C and 54 frost days"
| Days per year (long-term average) | Fukuchiyama | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|
| Days above 35°C | 13.7 days | 4.8 days |
| Days above 30°C | 65.0 days | 52.1 days |
| Tropical nights (minimum 25°C or above) | 6.0 days | 17.8 days |
| Frost days (minimum below 0°C) | 54.0 days | 15.2 days |
| Days below freezing all day (maximum below 0°C) | 0.1 days | 0.0 days |
Summer — the days are distinctly hotter than Tokyo, the nights distinctly cooler. There are 13.7 days a year at 35°C or above, about three times Tokyo's figure. But there are only 6.0 tropical nights a year, a third of Tokyo's 17.8.
Winter — there are 54 days a year when the morning drops below freezing. That is 3.5 times Tokyo. Days that stay below 0°C are all but unknown, so it is only the mornings that are cold, but from December to February frozen road surfaces in the morning are routine. Winter tyres, and frost protection for outdoor taps.
The valleys are colder than this. Ayabe's listings in the town centre sit at around 40 m, while those in the Kanbayashi valley and at Tokura and Iizumi are at 110 to 250 m. Within the same city, snow lies longer deep in the valleys and shaded road surfaces stay icy for longer. If you are looking at a property in the valleys, go and see it once in winter. Sources: JMA long-term averages for Ayabe (Kyoto) (rainfall only) / the same for Fukuchiyama (Kyoto) / the same for Tokyo (all 30-year averages, 1991–2020) / verified 2026-08-13
What are summer and winter like in Ayabe?
The Ayabe station measures rainfall only and has no long-term temperature average, so we use the figures for Fukuchiyama, about 12 km to the west. Fukuchiyama has a January daily low of −0.2°C and an August daily high of 32.8°C, and Ayabe's annual rainfall is 1,604.3 mm.
CHAPTER 07Shops, hospitals, schools
Hospitals — where you are taken if you collapse in the night
There are 2 hospitals in Ayabe City providing secondary emergency care. There is no critical care centre (tertiary emergency care) in the city for life-threatening cases; in the Chutan medical region that role is held by Fukuchiyama City Hospital. Ayabe Station to Fukuchiyama Station is 12 min on a local train.
| Hospitals | Beds | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ayabe City Hospital | 206 beds | 🔴 Secondary emergency care. 156 acute, 50 recovery |
| Ayabe Renaiss Hospital | 86 beds | Secondary emergency care. 43 acute, 43 long-term |
| Kyoto Kyoritsu Hospital | 99 beds | Recovery |
| Yura Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics Clinic | 9 beds | Obstetrics and paediatrics |
Schools — 10 primary and 6 lower secondary. A city where most schools have one class per year group
Ayabe City runs 10 primary schools (1,336 pupils) and 6 lower secondary schools (714 pupils), plus one kindergarten, Yata Kindergarten (as of 1 May Reiwa 6; Ayabe Kindergarten has closed). The primary schools are Ayabe, Nakasuji, Toyosato, Monobe, Shiga, Kimi, Nishiyata, Higashiyata, Higashiaya and Kanbayashi; the lower secondary schools are Ayabe, Toyosato, Kahoku, Yata, Higashiaya and Kanbayashi. The average is 134 pupils per primary school, so outside the town centre each year group is a single class.
Source:Ayabe City, basic information on schools and kindergartens(Reiwa 6 (2024), 5/1as of) / Verified 2026-08-13Shopping — gathered north and south of Ayabe Station
| Store | Retail floor area | Location and type |
|---|---|---|
| Bazaar Town Ayabe, Aspa building | — | Ayanaka-cho Hananoki 30. A general supermarket of the Sato group |
| Bazaar Town Ayabe, STOCK building | 3,677㎡ | Home centre (filed under the name "STOCK Ayabe") |
| Ayabe Gunze Town Centre | 3,563㎡ | A retail complex built on the birthplace of Gunze |
| Oshima Shopping / Shopping Town Ayabe | 1,868／1,756㎡ | — |
| Drug Cosmos Ayabe / Ayabe Ikura | 1,280／1,357㎡ | — |
| Direx Ayabe (provisional name) | 1,172㎡ | New store filed on 5 March Reiwa 8 (procedure in progress) |
For everyday food, Ayabe City's official relocation site "Iju Rikkoku Ayabe" lists the supermarkets in the city — Bazaar Town Ayabe Aspa (Ayanaka-cho Hananoki 30), Fresh Bazaar Ayabe Saiwaidori (Saiwaidori 23), Terao Shoten (Nishi-machi 1-chome), Gyomu Super Aono (Aono-cho Takada 76), Gyomu Super Ayabe (Oshima-cho Nitanme 9-1), Super Matsumoto Ayabe (Miyashiro-cho Miyanoshita 16-2) and Mitsumaru Store Shimoyata (Shimoyata-cho Shimozawa 11-10). The city adds that "some may not open every day or all year round".
Sources: floor areas fromKyoto Prefecture, filings under the Large-Scale Retail Stores Location Act (PDF, as of 1 April Reiwa 8) / the list of stores and their opening status fromAyabe City, Iju Rikkoku Ayabe, "Supermarkets",Sato group, list of stores , verified 2026-08-13Are there hospitals in Ayabe?
There are 2 hospitals in the city providing secondary emergency care (Ayabe City Hospital with 206 beds and Ayabe Renaiss Hospital with 86). There is no critical care centre in the city; that role is held by Fukuchiyama City Hospital, and Ayabe Station to Fukuchiyama Station is 12 min on a local train.
CHAPTER 08What it costs you every year after you buy
| Sewerage | Sewerage reaches 53.5% / rural community wastewater 12.1% / combined septic tanks 21.4% / community plants 0.28%. Together, wastewater treatment reaches 87.3% of the population (end of FY Reiwa 6). That is 1.24 points up on the year before, the fifth largest rise in Kyoto Prefecture. Away from the town centre, septic tanks are the norm |
|---|---|
| Relocation support grant | For moving from the Greater Tokyo area and then working, starting a business or teleworking in the city: ¥1,000,000 for a household, ¥600,000 for a single person. Up to ¥1,000,000 more for each child under 18 (a Kyoto Prefecture scheme; Ayabe City is a participating municipality) |
| Renovating an akiya | Ayabe City settlement promotion subsidy — towards the cost of renovating an akiya you have bought or rented, up to ¥1,800,000 for a registered akiya and up to ¥900,000 for an unregistered one. Conditions include being 60 or under, having lived outside the city for 3 years or more, and intending to stay for 10 years or more |
| the villages at the headwaters | For moving into a village the city designates as a "village at the headwaters": a settlement support grant of up to ¥300,000 (¥50,000 a month) and a housing improvement subsidy of up to ¥900,000 towards buying, building or renovating a home. Conditions include being under 65 on the date of the move and having lived outside that village for 3 years or more beforehand |
Is there any support if I move to Ayabe?
For moving from the Greater Tokyo area and then working, starting a business or teleworking in the city: ¥1,000,000 for a household, ¥600,000 for a single person (with up to ¥1,000,000 more for each child under 18). For renovating an akiya it is up to ¥1,800,000 for a registered one and ¥900,000 for an unregistered one.
CHAPTER 09What happens when you want to sell
Ayabe has 29 second-hand detached houses on SUUMO. Against a population of 30,427 that is 1 listing per 1,049 people, so the market is on the thick side. But there are only 29, so the range to choose from is limited.
| What to look at | Ayabe City in practice |
|---|---|
| Depth of the market | SUUMO 29 listings plus 2 on the akiya bank. 21 of the 29 are ¥10,000,000 or less — a city where 7 in every 10 are ¥10,000,000 or less |
| Price band | ¥1,000,000 to ¥42,000,000. District medians run ¥8,800,000 in Sakuragaoka and Fuchigaki against ¥5,000,000 around Ayabe Station and in the valleys — the gap itself is small |
| Land prices | Residential land averages ¥27,700/m², −0.3% (the fall narrowing from −0.8% the year before). Commercial land ¥56,500/m², flat at 0.0% (Reiwa 8 official land prices) |
| Where it stands in the prefecture | The residential average of ¥27,700/m² is 2.8 times lower than Kameoka's ¥77,500. It is also the lowest of the three Chutan cities |
| The pool of buyers | 30,427 people. Down 6.2% in five years in the preliminary Reiwa 7 Census (§10). The base is small, and falling |
Will the house I buy sell when I want to sell it?
With 29 SUUMO listings plus 2 on the akiya bank, that is 1 per 1,049 people and the market is on the thick side, but with only 29 the range to choose from is limited. 21 of the 29 are ¥10,000,000 or less, and residential land averages ¥27,700/m² at −0.3%, a narrowing fall.
CHAPTER 10Who lives here, and how many
| Census | Population | Change on the previous count |
|---|---|---|
| Reiwa 2 (2020) (2020) | 31,846 | −5.8% |
| Reiwa 7 (2025) preliminary | 29,885 | −6.2% |
This is not to say the population is growing. It is that the decline is no longer as steep as it looked ten years ago. This is a city that has kept up settlement policies for close to twenty years, starting with the "village at the headwaters" by-law, and the figures can be read as the accumulation of that. Source: Population Strategy Council, Reiwa 6 analysis report on the "sustainability" of local governments (PDF) (Ayabe City = D-③, α, young female population decline ▼44.2%, change on previous ▲7.4, projected 2050 population 20,624; legend: "α: municipalities previously classed as at risk of disappearing that have now come off the list, 239") / verified 2026-08-13
The information on this site is gathered by an AI that visits primary sources — municipalities, the Japan Meteorological Agency, national statistics — on a regular cycle, and it is updated with a source and a date of verification attached.
Of the 30,715 people living in Ayabe City, 970 are foreign residents. That is almost exactly the national average of 3.26%.
Nationally, foreign residents make up 3.26% of the total population (4,031,159 out of 123,767,642).
There are 34 municipalities in the country where the share is over 10%.
Source: calculated by this site from the municipality-level tables of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Population, population change and households based on the Basic Resident Register" (as of 1 January Reiwa 8, published 2026-07-29). The ministry's publication page / verified 2026-08-17
Is Ayabe's population falling?
30,427 people (end of July Reiwa 8), and the preliminary Census figure is 29,885, down 6.2% in five years. In the Population Strategy Council's 2024 report, however, the city came off the list of municipalities at risk of disappearing.
CHAPTER 11Community life and the year's events
There is one phrase you cannot leave out when talking about community life in Ayabe: "village at the headwaters". It is a name the city set down in a by-law, and a framework Ayabe City created ahead of the rest of the country. To live in one of the mountain hamlets is also to come inside that framework.
| Where you live | What community life involves |
|---|---|
| Around Ayabe Station | The town centre. Mostly the bin rota and the circulating notice board. The shopping is done north and south of the station too (§7) |
| Takatsu, Oshima, Iden / Sakuragaoka | Farmland and hill hamlets. Shrine festivals and shared work on the channels and roads come into it |
| The northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters) | Community life is thickest here. Most primary schools have one class per year group (§7), and the number of children shows up directly in the hamlet's events |
What comes round every year
Ayabe's year turns on "13.7 days above 35°C and 54 frost days" (§6). Hot summers and mornings below freezing — the climate of a basin and its valleys. And with 1,604.3 mm of rain a year, 1.8 times Ueda's 906.2 mm, this is a wet place. June and September mean the Yuragawa, and November means winter tyres — that is Ayabe's calendar.
Sources: the settlement figures and the desk fromKyoto Prefecture Real Estate Association, "Ayabe City: a guide to settlement promotion measures"andAyabe City, "Ayabe Settlement Support One-Stop Desk" / the climate as in §6, the Yuragawa as in §5, the schools as in §7 / verified 2026-08-18Is community life demanding in Ayabe?
In the town centre it is mostly the bin rota and the circulating notice board; in the farmland and the hills, shrine festivals and shared work on the channels and roads come into it; and in the northern and eastern valleys (the villages at the headwaters) it is thickest. "Village at the headwaters" is a framework Ayabe City created ahead of the rest of the country and set down in a by-law.
CHAPTER 12Things nearby that move land prices
What tells on land in Ayabe is the Yuragawa, how much of the city is forest, and the fact that the city has driven settlement as a policy.
1. The Yuragawa, and how low the ground lies
The median elevation of the listings is 36 m in Takatsu, Oshima and Iden; 43 m around Ayabe Station; 77 m in Sakuragaoka and Fuchigaki; and 140 m in the valleys. The area with the most listings is also the lowest-lying: the western farmland at 36 m. As set out in §5, the Yuragawa has flooded Ayabe again and again. The cheaper the property, the more likely it is to be near the river — keep that relationship in mind and check the hazard for the specific address.
2. Most of the city is forest, with 1,671 warning zones
Of the 347.10 km², most is forest (§1). There are 1,671 landslide warning zones in the city (§5). Move away from the river and you are into the mountains — that is Ayabe's terrain, and the scarcity of flat land that is away from both is why people are concentrated in the town centre.
3. A city that has kept settlement as a policy
| City | Average, residential land | Year on year |
|---|---|---|
| Kameoka City | ¥77,500/m² | ＋1.8% |
| Maizuru City | ¥40,600/m² | −1.0% |
| Fukuchiyama City | ¥36,400/m² | ＋0.1% |
| Ayabe City | ¥27,700/m² | −0.3% (narrowing from −0.8% the year before) |
Ayabe City has a "By-law on promoting settlement in a town people want to live in", pays a subsidy towards renovating akiya (the settlement promotion subsidy), and even runs a registration and referral scheme for akiya management firms. Settling 136 households and 324 people between Heisei 20 and 26 was third in the country. That the fall in residential land narrowed from −0.8% to −0.3% and that commercial land stopped at 0.0% is unlikely to be unrelated to all of this.
Sources: land prices fromSummary of the Reiwa 8 official land prices (Kyoto Prefecture), PDF / the schemes fromAyabe City settlement promotion subsidy,The same, registration and referral scheme for akiya management firms / the settlement figures fromKyoto Prefecture Real Estate Association / the Yuragawa and the warning zones as in §5, the forest as in §1 / verified 2026-08-18What decides land prices in Ayabe?
The median elevation of the listings is 36 m in the western farmland and 140 m in the valleys, and the area with the most listings is also the lowest-lying: the western farmland. Most of the city is forest and there are 1,671 landslide warning zones — the scarcity of flat land away from both river and mountain is what tells on prices.
CHAPTER 13What this place makes
What a place earns its living from shows up both at your dinner table and in your work once you live there. The amount raised through the hometown tax scheme is a rough measure of how many products a place has that people all over Japan choose.
1050th of the 1,788 municipalities in the country, and 15th within Kyoto Prefecture
We have not yet been able to describe this place's local specialities
I (the AI) searched Ayabe City's official site and the tourism and produce association sites the municipality points to, but could not find an officially published list of local specialities (verified 20 August 2026).
This site is built by checking sources one at a time, so that the AI does not go and present something that is not true. Because no sourced information could be found, nothing is written here yet. It does not mean the place has no specialities, and we ask for your understanding.
If you would like this filled in,please tell us the official page . We will put it here with a source and the date it was checked.
You can support a town without living there
Even if a move is still some way off, you can be involved from today through the hometown tax scheme. Your donation goes straight to the municipality, and you choose what it is spent on. A way to give something back to a place you got to know here.
Source:Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Survey on the state of the hometown tax scheme (conducted FY Reiwa 8)", the table of amounts and numbers received (provisional FY Reiwa 7 settlement), tallied by this site. The rank is out of all 1,788 municipalities in that table / verified 2026-08-14What does Ayabe earn its living from?
Hometown tax receipts came to ¥175,310,000 in FY Reiwa 7 (5,045 donations), 1050th of the 1,788 municipalities in the country and 15th within Kyoto Prefecture.
CHAPTER 14A message from Ayabe City
How the receiving side sees it. Ayabe City has written its own words — a town that goes from "glad I live here" to "somewhere I want to live" and on to "somewhere I can keep living" — into a by-law.
| What is on offer | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ayabe Settlement Support One-Stop Desk | A one-stop counter. Not only akiya bank listings: it takes relocation and settlement enquiries of every kind |
| By-law on promoting settlement in a town people want to live in | Settlement promotion is set down as a by-law. The city's stance has been made into a scheme |
| Settlement promotion subsidy | A subsidy towards the cost of renovation work for anyone who has bought or rented an akiya |
| Registration and referral scheme for akiya management firms | The city registers and refers firms that manage akiya. That is provision for owners left with a property on their hands, not only for buyers |
| Akiya bank | Registrations are being sought. 2 listings on the At Home municipal bank (§4) |
| Record | 136 households and 324 people settled between Heisei 20 and 26 = third in the country (Kyoto Prefecture Real Estate Association). The key to it was working with licensed estate agents, as the association itself writes |
Ayabe Settlement Support One-Stop Desk →
Source:Ayabe City, "We have opened an Ayabe Settlement Support One-Stop Desk"／The same, settlement promotion subsidy／The same, registration and referral scheme for akiya management firms／The same, akiya bank registrations being sought / the record fromKyoto Prefecture Real Estate Association/ Verified 2026-08-18Does Ayabe welcome newcomers? Where do I go to ask?
There is an "Ayabe Settlement Support One-Stop Desk", which takes relocation and settlement enquiries of every kind at a single counter, not only akiya listings. The city has written its words — a town that goes from "glad I live here" to "somewhere I want to live" and on to "somewhere I can keep living" — into a by-law.
CHAPTER 15A year in Ayabe
Temperatures, and what they mean day to day. Ayabe's year is set by "the heat of summer and the amount of rain". 13.7 days above 35°C and 54 frost days, and 1,604.3 mm of rain a year. The temperatures are Fukuchiyama's, because the Ayabe station measures rainfall only (§6).
| Month | Ayabe that month |
|---|---|
| month 1 | The bottom of the year. Mean daily low −0.2°C. 54 frost days a year — on 15% of the year the morning is below freezing |
| month 2 | The cold holds. Ayabe sits on the divide between the Japan Sea side and the Pacific side, and there are days with snow |
| month 3 | It eases. Spring comes along the Yuragawa |
| month 4 | Cherry blossom. It works its way up from the flat land along the river to the hamlets in the valleys |
| month 5 | The easiest time of year. The rice planting begins |
| month 6 | The rainy season. 1,604.3 mm a year is 1.8 times Ueda's — this is the month you feel how wet a place this is. Look at the Yuragawa on the map (§5) |
| month 7 | The heat comes in earnest. There are 13.7 days a year above 35°C |
| month 8 | A daily high of 32.8°C, 1.5°C above Tokyo. "It's in the mountains, so it's cool" does not hold for Ayabe |
| month 9 | Typhoon season. The month you watch the level of the Yuragawa |
| month 10 | Autumn colour. The best time of year in the villages at the headwaters |
| month 11 | Winter tyres. The cold mornings begin |
| month 12 | The doorway to winter. Winter reaches the valley hamlets a step ahead of the town centre |
What is a year in Ayabe like?
13.7 days above 35°C and 54 frost days, so on 15% of the year the morning is below freezing. With 1,604.3 mm of rain a year this is a wet place, and in the June rains you will want to have looked at the Yuragawa on the map.
CHAPTER 16The people who run this city
When you are thinking about moving, who is running this town and where they are taking it is, I think, something people about to move want to know even more than those already living there. This chapter sets out only what Ayabe City publishes itself, with sources. 🔴 As of 22 August 2026, following the official site, I (the AI) could find 5 of the 6 items below. The mayor of Ayabe City is Shikata Gentaro (confirmed on Ayabe City's introduction page).
| What is published | Published | What you can read |
|---|---|---|
| About the mayor | Profile (the mayor's room) | Name, career, greeting |
| Policy address | Could not find one | What they say they will do this year |
| List of council members | The council members (from 26 January Reiwa 8) | Who the members are, and their groupings |
| Council broadcasts and recordings | Live and recorded broadcasts (also for phones and tablets) | Whether you can watch the council in session |
| Searchable minutes | Minutes search system | Whether you can search past debates by wording |
| Master plan | Comprehensive plan | How many years ahead this town has decided |
🔴 Age and gender have not been guessed from the name.Only what is published is reproduced here, as published.Ayabe City introduction page →
🔴 The names, photographs and social media of individual council members are not carried on this site. We point you to where you can read them.
Once you have moved, when your own turn to decide comes round is something those three will tell you.
🔴 And mayors change. This site always records the date it checked (2026-08-22), and reopens the original page each time to confirm by machine that the name is still there. If you notice something has nonetheless gone out of date, please let us know.
Who runs Ayabe City now?
The mayor of Ayabe City is Shikata Gentaro (confirmed on 22 August 2026 on Ayabe City's introduction page). What this site looks for is six things: the mayor's profile, the policy address, the list of council members, broadcasts of the council, a minutes search, and the comprehensive plan. 🔴 No judgement of good or bad is being made. Only whether each is published or not.
CHAPTER 17Where to go on a day off
It never shows up in the numbers you use to find a house, yet it bears directly on how satisfied you are once you live there: days off. This chapter counts, on the same measure for every area, the places you can go on a day off around Ayabe (Fukuchiyama) and the places friends and family can stay when they visit. This is a town with the Kyoto Tamba Highlands Quasi-National Park. The area currently has 3 hot spring and day bath facilities. 🔴 All the counts are the number registered in the map data (OpenStreetMap) — in reality there may well be more.
| What | Number counted, and names |
|---|---|
| ⛰ National and quasi-national parks | Kyoto Tamba Highlands Quasi-National Park |
| ♨ Hot springs and day baths | Ichinoyu, Sakae Onsen / Ushinoyu, Kyo-Ayabe Miyabi Onsen; Daikazoku no Yu (3 facilities) |
| 🏯 Castles and castle sites | Not found in the map data |
| 🎡 Amusement parks, zoos and aquariums | Not found in the map data |
| 🖼 Museums, galleries and memorial halls | Ayabe City Astronomical Museum Pao |
| ⛩ Shrines and temples | 25 shrines and 19 temples. The ones with a Wikipedia entry are Ankokuji and Komyoji |
| 🚗 Roadside stations | Not found in the map data |
| 🐕 Dog runs | Not found in the map data |
| 🛣 Expressway service and parking areas | Ayabe PA (northbound) / Ayabe PA (southbound) |
Somewhere to stay — for family and friends, and for your own travels
| What | Number counted |
|---|---|
| 🏨 Hotels and ryokan | 11 |
| 🏠 Guesthouses and hostels | Not found in the map data |
| ⛺ Campsites and auto-campsites | Donguri no Mori campsite and 2 in all |
| 🏕 Glamping | Not found among the campsite or hotel names |
| 🚐 RV parks (overnight in your vehicle) | Not found in the map data |
This table is the result of me (an AI) putting the same question to the map data for every area (areas are retrieved in batches, so the verification date on some pages is a day apart). Facilities not registered on the map are not counted. "Not found" does not mean "there are none" — nor that the town is any the lesser for it.
Sources: the counts and names of facilities fromOpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) / RV parks fromJapan RV Association, list of certified "Kuruma-tabi" RV parks / roadside stations fromMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, list of "michi-no-eki" roadside stations / expressway service and parking areas, and the shops inside them, also from OpenStreetMap (judged by machine on whether they fall within the site outline) / national parks judged from the boundary data of the Ministry of the Environment Biodiversity Center overlaid on National Land Numerical Information (administrative boundaries); for quasi-national parks the municipalities concerned were confirmed at the link behind the park name / verified 2026-08-20Are there places to go on a day off, and places to stay?
A town with the Kyoto Tamba Highlands Quasi-National Park. Counting from the map data (OpenStreetMap) and the lists kept by the RV Association and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, there are 3 hot spring and day bath facilities, 11 hotels and inns and 2 campsites. Anything not on the map is not counted, so in reality there may well be more (details in §17).
What I (an AI) was able to find on this town's official site
This site reads the official websites of every area it covers against the same 30 items, out of 100, measuring how quickly someone thinking of moving can reach the information they need. What was measured is the official website of Ayabe City, and the total was 59 points (measured 20 August 2026).
"Not found" does not mean "there is none." It means I followed the official site and could not find it. Tell us the published page and the next measurement will reflect it.
| Area | Score | What was found |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started with a move | 11 / 20 | There is a relocation and settlement page; a contact point (department, telephone, opening hours); support schemes state amounts and conditions |
| Housing | 9 / 15 | There is an akiya bank; listings carry photographs, price, year built and floor area; completed deals are organised |
| The money side of living here | 9 / 15 | Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table; child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope; there are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax |
| Disaster information | 15 / 20 | Hazard maps are published by district; flood, landslide and earthquake are all covered; they are machine-readable (a map system or text PDF); and 1 more |
| Industry and local produce | 3 / 10 | Hometown tax results are published year by year; there are support schemes for businesses and industry |
| Transport | 7 / 10 | There is a community bus timetable; fares are stated |
| Can an AI read it? | 5 / 10 | Every page carries an updated date; there is a sitemap.xml; statistics are published as Excel or CSV; and 1 more |
See all 30 items and the pages used to judge them
3 / 3 There is a relocation and settlement pageSettlement measures Go and see → 0 / 3 There is a dedicated relocation site
Only pages within the official site 3 / 3 A contact point (department, telephone, opening hours)
3 of department, telephone and opening hours were stated Go and see → 5 / 5 Support schemes state amounts and conditions
Both amounts and conditions Go and see → 0 / 3 There is trial housing or a trial-stay scheme
Not found 0 / 3 Vacancies in trial housing are published
Not found 4 / 4 There is an akiya bank
Akiya bank registrations being sought Go and see → 1 / 4 Listings carry photographs, price, year built and floor area
0 of 2 (0%) have all four items Go and see → 4 / 4 Completed deals are organised
No completed deals appear in the list Go and see → 0 / 3 The conditions of use are stated
Not found 1 / 5 Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table
There is a water and sewerage page Go and see → 5 / 5 Child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope
The scope of free and subsidised care is stated down to the age Go and see → 3 / 3 There are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax
Both the rates and the amounts are stated Go and see → 0 / 2 Tie-ups with banks for mortgages and the like
Not found 5 / 5 Hazard maps are published by district
96 documents by district Go and see → 5 / 5 Flood, landslide and earthquake are all covered
Flood / landslide / earthquake Go and see → 0 / 3 The year the assumptions were last reviewed is stated
Not found Go and see → 2 / 4 Is it machine-readable (a map system or a text PDF)?
It appears to be a scanned-image PDF Go and see → 3 / 3 Disasters are announced through more than one channel
Disaster email / disaster app / social media / municipal loudspeakers / TV and radio Go and see → 0 / 5 A list of local speciality products is on the official site
Not found 1 / 3 Hometown tax results are published year by year
Not found Go and see → 2 / 2 There are support schemes for businesses and industry
Ayabe City interest subsidy scheme for small and medium-sized businesses Go and see → 4 / 4 There is a community bus timetable
Go and see → 3 / 3 Fares are stated
Go and see → 0 / 3 The date of the last revision is given
Not found Go and see → 1 / 3 Every page carries an updated date
3 of the 20 pages read Go and see → 2 / 2 There is a sitemap.xml
Go and see → 0 / 2 Site search runs on the server side
It was a Google custom search Go and see → 1 / 2 Statistics are published as Excel or CSV
There is a statistics page Go and see → 1 / 1 Open data is published
Go and see →
Compare with other towns → For municipalities and local organisations (get in touch here) →
Measurement by this site. The URL of each official site was taken from the municipal information published by Furusato Choice. The score is a score for publishing information, not a score for how good the place is to live / verified 2026-08-20Compare with other areas
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