Inagawa Town

A 50-centimetre telescope on the hilltop.

Inagawa Observatory

Photo by Yama0904 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Inagawa Observatory

At 753 metres,an observatory.

大野山山頂.jpg — Photo by Kei425 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Near the summit of Mount Oya, at 753 metres one of the highest points in the Hanshin area, stands the Inagawa Observatory, Astropia. The first floor has a hybrid planetarium, optical and digital; the 50-centimetre reflector on the second floor is used for the night sky and for sunspots by day. It opens Thursday to Sunday and on holidays.

Mount Oya is 753 metres
A 50-centimetre reflector on the second floor
Open Thursday to Sunday and holidays from 1.30 p.m.

02 ／ Tada silver and copper mine

A valley once calledthree thousand houses.

On 7 October 2015 the Tada mine site was made a national historic site. The Ginzan quarter, busy enough in the Edo period to be called ginzan sanzengen (銀山三千軒), three thousand houses at the silver mine, is held to be the most important part of it. Aoki-mabu (青木間歩) is the only shaft you can walk into, about 550 metres north-west of the Yukyu-no-Yakata museum (悠久の館), some fifteen minutes on foot.

National historic site on 7 October 2015
Called three thousand houses in the Edo period
Aoki-mabu is the only shaft open to walk into

03 ／ Soba

Grown on fallow fields,one hundred per cent buckwheat.

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The soba served at Soba-no-Yakata (そばの館), in the roadside station Michi-no-Eki Inagawa, is made from buckwheat flour grown on the town's fallow fields, one hundred per cent. A soba dojo next door lets visitors make their own. The station opened on 5 November 2000, and its buildings are built on a theme of weather, with roofs standing for a rainbow, the sun and clouds.

One hundred per cent buckwheat flour
The roadside station opened on 5 November 2000
The buildings are built on a theme of weather

Living here

Osaka in 40 minutes by Nissei Express.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

The only railway in the town is the Nose Electric Railway at Nissei Chuo, and that station is the hub. The Nissei Express runs through to Osaka-Umeda in about 40 minutes. For the town hall, take a Hankyu bus from Nissei Chuo and get off at Inagawa Town Hall. The town belongs to Kawabe district; the north is deep in hills, part of it a prefectural natural park along the Inagawa gorge.

People living here: 29,680people
Area: 90.33km²
Households: 10,995households
Rent (average for rentals): 61,189yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 25 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —4 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Inagawa Town in Japan34.895°N 135.376°E

to Osaka日生エクスプレス40min

Travel times follow 町公式「オンライン移住相談」（2025年1月6日更新）に載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Inagawa Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.1km

Hyogo Prefecture: 宝塚市, 川西市, 三田市, 丹波篠山市
Osaka Prefecture: 能勢町

Inagawa Town isthis kind of town.

01Near the top of Mount Oya, 753 metres, the observatory keeps a 50-centimetre reflector
02The Tada mine became a national historic site in 2015; only Aoki-mabu can be entered
03Soba at the roadside station is all buckwheat grown on the town's fallow fields

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Inagawa Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗