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Kora Town
Shiga Prefecture · Town
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Kora Town is a rice-growing area on the alluvial fan of the Inukami River and the 2nd-smallest town in the prefecture by area. It has Saimyo-ji Temple, one of the Koto Sanzan temples, whose main hall and three-story pagoda are National Treasures. Sasaki Doyo had his base here in the Nanboku-cho period, and it is the birthplace of Kora Munehiro, master carpenter of the Edo shogunate.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Shiga Prefecture
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