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Nuezuka, the Nue Mound

A small stone mound between the houses of Miyakojima, where the nue's body was said to have washed ashore and been buried.

Quick Facts

Type
Site
Prefecture
Osaka · Osaka (Miyakojima)
Nearest station
Miyakojima Station (Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line)
From the station
About three minutes on foot
English signage
none
Opening hours and admission
No official site listed · information checked on 2026-11-03

Hours, admission and closing days change, and this site does not list them. The link goes to the place's own page, with the date we last checked it.

The Nue mound between the houses of Miyakojima, Osaka
Photo: Fred Cherrygarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (external link)

What is there

A few minutes from Miyakojima station, in a street of ordinary houses, a stone mound the size of a car stands behind a low fence with a marker and a small altar. The mound has been rebuilt and moved as the streets changed, and the local people keep it and hold a memorial for the creature. There is no gate and nothing to pay. The ward’s walking map marks it among the other old sites of the riverbank.

Why here

When the archer Yorimasa brought the nue down over the palace in 1153, the body was put in a hollowed log and sent down the river so that its curse would leave the capital. It came ashore here, where the river reached the sea, and the fishermen who found it buried it and raised the mound. Another mound at Ashiya makes the same claim. The pond in Kyoto where the arrowhead was washed is the other end of the tale.

Yokai you will meet

  • Nue 鵺 — The mound where the body sent down the river from Kyoto was said to have come ashore and been buried.

Getting there

Miyakojima Station (Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line). About three minutes on foot.

Sources and further reading

  1. Reliable secondary Miyakojima ward walking map (external link) Osaka City, Miyakojima Ward Ward map marking the Nuezuka among the old sites of the riverbank.
  2. Database Nue (鵺) (external link) Wikipedia (Japanese) The 1153 tale, the pond in Nijō Park where the arrowhead was washed, and the mounds that claim the body.

Other places with these yokai

Other places in Osaka

  • Abe Seimei Shrine, Osaka 安倍晴明神社（大阪） Shrine or temple Osaka (Abeno), Osaka — The small shrine in Abeno that claims the diviner's birthplace, with his statue and the fox of his mother on the tablets.
  • Kuzunoha Inari Shrine, Shinoda Forest 信太森葛葉稲荷神社 Shrine or temple Izumi, Osaka — The shrine in what is left of Shinoda forest, where the fox wife of the tales looked at herself in the well and went home.