It is not the longest in Japan, but it is the one that required the most earth to be moved.
It is second in length behind the mausoleum of Nintoku (425 metres against 486) but first in volume: one million four hundred and thirty thousand cubic metres of earth, moved in the first half of the fifth century in baskets and on shoulders. From outside you see woodland enclosed by two moats.
The largest mound of the Furuichi group, in Habikino. The round part measures 250 metres in diameter by 35 in height, the trapezoidal part 300 in width by 36. It is part of the UNESCO site of the kofun (the burial mounds of the rulers) of Mozu and Furuichi, inscribed on 6 July 2019.
ℹ️ You cannot go in, as with all imperial mausoleums: you walk round it from outside. It is in Habikino, on the other side of the kofun from Sakai: the Furuichi group and the Mozu group are two separate areas of the same site, about fifteen kilometres apart.
🚉 Furuichi · 12 min walk
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