[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":220},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-mozu-furuichi-kofun":3,"site-stories-mozu-furuichi-kofun":182,"site-siblings-mozu-furuichi-kofun":195},{"id":4,"title":5,"access":6,"alerts":10,"bestSeasons":18,"body":21,"coordinates":114,"description":100,"extension":117,"factsCheckedAt":118,"food":119,"heroImage":135,"highlights":136,"meta":143,"nameCommon":144,"nameEn":145,"nameJa":146,"navigation":147,"nearestHub":148,"officialLinks":149,"path":152,"prefectures":153,"region":155,"seo":156,"siteType":157,"sources":158,"stay":164,"stem":177,"summary":178,"unescoRef":179,"year":180,"__hash__":181},"sites\u002Fsites\u002Fmozu-furuichi-kofun.md","Mozu Furuichi Kofun",{"outline":7,"duration":8,"costHint":9},"Tokaido Shinkansen Nozomi from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka (about 2.5h), then JR to Tennoji and the JR Hanwa Line to Mozu Station (about 50 min total from Shin-Osaka); Daisen Kofun is a 5-minute walk from Mozu Station. For the Furuichi cluster, take the Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line to Furuichi or Hajinosato Station (about 1h from Shin-Osaka via Osaka-Abenobashi).","about 3.5 hours","about 15,000 yen one way (shinkansen ~14,720 yen plus local fares)",[11,13,15],{"message":12},"Nearly every indoor facility, including Sakai City Museum, the Chikatsu Asuka Museum, and the Shin-an tea house, closes on Mondays, so plan a Monday visit around the two daily free fallbacks: the Mozu Visitor Center (9:00-18:00) and the MI-TE Sakai City Hall lobby. Mahora Shiroyama at Tsudō-shiroyama is an exception: Fujiidera City lists no weekly closing day, only December 28 to January 4, though the official site FAQ still shows a Monday-Tuesday closure, so call 072-939-1419 if it is the reason for your trip.",{"message":14},"The National Treasure gilt-bronze saddle fittings at Konda Hachimangu's treasure hall are shown only on Saturdays, 13:00-16:00, for 500 yen (as of 2026), so schedule your Furuichi day for a Saturday if you want to see them.",{"message":16,"validThrough":17},"From April 1, 2026, special-exhibition tickets at the Chikatsu Asuka Museum cost up to 1,000 yen (feature exhibitions 600 yen), though the 310-yen permanent-collection admission is unchanged.","2027-03-31",[19,20],"spring","autumn",{"type":22,"value":23,"toc":99},"minimark",[24,29,33,36,40,43,48,51,55,58,62,65,69,72,76,79,83,86,90,93,96],[25,26,28],"h2",{"id":27},"why-its-inscribed","Why it's inscribed",[30,31,32],"p",{},"Japan built roughly 160,000 burial mounds between the third and sixth centuries. UNESCO singled out 49 of them, packed into two clusters on a plateau south of Osaka, because this is where the form peaked. In the late fourth and fifth centuries, the rulers of the Osaka Plain buried their dead under mounds of standardized shape but wildly unstandardized size. The largest, attributed to Emperor Nintoku, is 486 meters long and holds about 1.4 million cubic meters of earth; a 1985 study by the Obayashi Corporation calculated that building it with period methods would have taken 2,000 laborers more than 15 years. The smallest mounds within the same two-kilometer radius measure 26 meters. That gap is the argument: you can read the social ladder of a state-in-formation directly in the dirt.",[30,34,35],{},"The construction tradition is also genuinely unlike anything else. Mound builders elsewhere made a burial chamber and covered it. Here, crews finished the terraced mound first, faced it with fist- to head-sized pebbles called fukiishi, ringed its terraces with clay haniwa figures, then cut the burial into the top and performed rituals on the summit. Every tomb was a stage. The keyhole plan refined here was copied across the archipelago, which is why archaeologists treat these two clusters as the head office of kofun design.",[25,37,39],{"id":38},"what-youll-actually-see","What you'll actually see",[30,41,42],{},"Mozu (in Sakai) comes first for most visitors; Furuichi (Habikino and Fujiidera) is a separate rail trip and a separate day.",[44,45,47],"h3",{"id":46},"nintoku-tennō-ryō-kofun-daisen-kofun","Nintoku-tennō-ryō Kofun (Daisen Kofun)",[30,49,50],{},"The colossus: 486 meters of mound inside three moats, roughly 800 by 600 meters counting the water, raised over some 20 years in the mid-fifth century. From the worship point at the southern end you get a raked-gravel forecourt, a torii, and a wall of forest across the moat. That is the entire ground-level view, so pair it with height: the free 21st-floor lobby of Sakai City Hall about two kilometers north, a 20-to-30-minute walk, or the tethered balloon in Daisen Park that lifts you to 100 meters.",[44,52,54],{"id":53},"richū-tennō-ryō-kofun","Richū-tennō-ryō Kofun",[30,56,57],{},"Japan's third-largest tomb at 365 meters, built in the first half of the fifth century and demonstrably older than Nintoku's, even though the chronicles list Richū as Nintoku's son and successor. The imperial name tags, in other words, are tradition rather than proof. Around ten satellite tombs cluster nearby, and a second outer moat turned up in excavations as recently as 1994, a reminder that these monuments are still giving up basic facts.",[44,59,61],{"id":60},"itasuke-kofun","Itasuke Kofun",[30,63,64],{},"A 146-meter keyhole at the geographic center of the Mozu group, and the one with a modern plot. Slated for housing development around 1955, it was saved by a citizens' campaign; a helmet-shaped haniwa found during that fight is now the logo of Sakai's cultural-preservation work. Mozu once held more than 100 mounds and 44 survive, so this is the place to think about the missing ones.",[44,66,68],{"id":67},"nisanzai-kofun","Nisanzai Kofun",[30,70,71],{},"About 300 meters long and late fifth century, the youngest of the Mozu giants and, by common judgment, the best-proportioned front section in the group. The Imperial Household Agency manages it as a reference site for Emperor Hanzei, whose officially designated tomb, Hanzei-tennō-ryō, measures a conspicuously modest 148 meters. Walk both and you will form your own opinion about which held an emperor. The name derives from misasagi, an old word for imperial tomb.",[44,73,75],{"id":74},"ōjin-tennō-ryō-kofun","Ōjin-tennō-ryō Kofun",[30,77,78],{},"The Furuichi cluster's anchor and the largest kofun in Japan by volume: 425 meters long, about 1.43 million cubic meters, slightly out-bulking Nintoku's. The outer bank carries cherry blossoms in spring and cosmos in autumn, and the walking is far quieter than in Sakai. Nearby, Konda Hachimangu shrine enshrines Ōjin himself and displays the National Treasure gilt-bronze saddle fittings excavated from neighboring Konda-maruyama Kofun, Saturday afternoons only.",[44,80,82],{"id":81},"tsudō-shiroyama-kofun","Tsudō-shiroyama Kofun",[30,84,85],{},"The tomb you can actually touch. Tsudō-shiroyama in Fujiidera is one of six World Heritage mounds you may climb, all of them in Furuichi. Its finds include waterfowl-shaped haniwa, and the free Mahora Shiroyama guidance building on site displays a full-size replica of the long stone coffin, the closest anyone gets to a burial chamber here. Nearby Komuroyama is climbable too; its summit is the closest thing Furuichi has to an observation deck.",[25,87,89],{"id":88},"worth-knowing","Worth knowing",[30,91,92],{},"Nothing is open. No chamber and no entrance exist anywhere in the property; you are walking around moats, and the forest on every mound is an accident of later neglect, not the design. Hold the original image in mind as you walk: bare gray pebble terraces under thousands of terracotta cylinders.",[30,94,95],{},"The worship points in front of the imperial tombs are active ritual sites run by the Imperial Household Agency. No smoking there, and no pets (guide and service dogs excepted). The paths between mounds thread working residential neighborhoods, so carry your trash out and keep early-morning voices down.",[30,97,98],{},"Budget a full day per cluster; the perimeter walk around Nintoku-ryō alone takes about an hour, mostly shadeless, so bring water in summer. If you must choose one cluster, take the contrarian option: Furuichi has the bigger tomb by volume, the only climbable mounds, and far fewer people. Before arriving, install the free official tour app (released October 2025, with English audio and GPS routes); its digital stamps also earn collectible Mozu-Furu cards, 67 types, at distribution points.",{"title":100,"searchDepth":101,"depth":101,"links":102},"",2,[103,104,113],{"id":27,"depth":101,"text":28},{"id":38,"depth":101,"text":39,"children":105},[106,108,109,110,111,112],{"id":46,"depth":107,"text":47},3,{"id":53,"depth":107,"text":54},{"id":60,"depth":107,"text":61},{"id":67,"depth":107,"text":68},{"id":74,"depth":107,"text":75},{"id":81,"depth":107,"text":82},{"id":88,"depth":101,"text":89},{"lat":115,"lng":116},34.5639,135.4869,"md","2026-08-04",[120,123,126,129,132],{"name":121,"note":122},"Keshi mochi (poppy-seed mochi)","Mochi rolled in poppy seeds, an ingredient that reached Japan through Sakai's medieval trade with India, made at Honke Kojima since 1532; it sells out some afternoons, so go early (closed Mondays).",{"name":124,"note":125},"Keyhole-shaped wagashi with matcha","At the Shin-an tea house in Daisen Park, seated tea costs 600 yen (raised from 500 yen on June 1, 2026; 500 yen for groups of 15 or more) and some of the sweets are shaped like Nintoku-ryō itself; closed Mondays, ordinary clothes fine.",{"name":127,"note":128},"Kurumi mochi","Bean-paste mochi from Kanbukuro, a Sakai confectioner founded in 1329 whose name was reportedly bestowed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi; in summer they serve it over shaved ice (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays).",{"name":130,"note":131},"Kofun quiche and financiers","MAISON INCO, a local-ingredient bistro in Fujiidera, bakes its signature quiche and financiers in tomb shapes, making it the natural lunch stop on an Ōjin-ryō walking day.",{"name":133,"note":134},"Kawachi wine","Habikino has grown grapes since the Meiji era; Kawachi Wine runs reservation-required tours with tastings, and its plum wine was served at the G20 Osaka Summit.","\u002Fimages\u002Fsites\u002Fmozu-furuichi-kofun-hero.webp",[137,138,139,140,141,142],"Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun (Daisen Kofun) — 486 m long, one of the world's three largest tombs","Sakai City Hall 21st-floor observatory — free 360-degree views over the keyhole-shaped mounds","Daisen Park and the Sakai City Museum next to the great tomb","Furuichi cluster tombs such as Ojin-tenno-ryo (Konda Gobyoyama) and Hakuchoryo Kofun","Haniwa clay figures and grave goods at area museums including the Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum","Walking courses linking satellite kofun like Itasuke Kofun",{},"Mozu-Furuichi Kofun (Osaka's Ancient Tombs)","Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan","百舌鳥・古市古墳群",true,"Mozu Station (JR Hanwa Line), Sakai \u002F Shin-Osaka",[150,151],"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mozu-furuichi.jp\u002Fen\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwhc.unesco.org\u002Fen\u002Flist\u002F1593\u002F","\u002Fsites\u002Fmozu-furuichi-kofun",[154],"Osaka","Kansai",{"description":100},"cultural",[151,150,159,160,161,162,163],"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.japan.travel\u002Fen\u002Fworld-heritage\u002Fmozu-furuichi-kofun\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fosaka-info.jp\u002Fen\u002Fspecial\u002Fmozufuru-bus\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.city.sakai.lg.jp\u002Fkanko\u002Fhakubutsukan\u002Fchashitsu.html","https:\u002F\u002Fkondahachimangu.com\u002Finformation\u002Ftreasure\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.city.fujiidera.lg.jp\u002Frekishikanko\u002Fbunkazaishisetsu\u002F1387869484942.html",[165,168,171,174],{"area":166,"note":167},"Sakai-higashi (Nankai Koya Line)","The only base at the Mozu cluster itself, five minutes from the free City Hall observation lobby, but the stock is business-grade (Daiwa Roynet, Toyoko Inn, Agora Regency Sakai at the top end) and the Nankai line is not covered by JR passes.",{"area":169,"note":170},"Tennoji \u002F Abeno (Osaka City)","The smart two-cluster base, since JR Tennoji reaches Mozu in about 11 minutes while adjacent Osaka-Abenobashi station serves the Furuichi side, at the cost of sleeping in central Osaka rather than near the tombs.",{"area":172,"note":173},"Namba \u002F central Osaka","The deepest hotel and dining supply in the region, 15 minutes from Sakai-higashi by Nankai express (290 yen as of 2026, not JR-Pass valid), but the kofun become a day trip and you lose the early and late light on the moats.",{"area":175,"note":176},"Sakai old town machiya (Chirin guesthouse)","A traditional townhouse steps from the Hankai tram and the centuries-old confectioners, atmospheric but tiny, with limited English and no real front-desk service.","sites\u002Fmozu-furuichi-kofun","Keyhole-shaped burial mounds on the Osaka Plain, the largest 486 meters long. 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