01 ／ Revue
A hot spring was found on the right bank of the Mukogawa in 1884 and Takarazuka Onsen opened in 1887. In the last years of Meiji, Kobayashi Ichizo and others brought the railway now called the Hankyu Takarazuka Line and opened a new spa on the left bank. There, in 1914, the Takarazuka Girls' Revue was born.
02 ／ Nursery trade
Takarazuka is one of Japan's three great nursery districts, with Kurume in Fukuoka and Kawaguchi in Saitama. The Yamamoto district within it is called the birthplace of Japanese horticulture, with about a thousand years behind it, and the trade grew in earnest from the later 17th century.
03 ／ Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka spent about twenty years in Takarazuka, from the age of five to twenty-four. The city opened the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in 1994; by its twentieth anniversary in August 2014 it had taken 3.5 million visitors. It stands in Mukogawa-cho, next to the Grand Theater.
Living here
The nearest station to city hall is Sakasegawa on the Hankyu Imazu Line, about 15 minutes' walk east, or a Hankyu bus to the city hall stop. The city's own travel page gives routes from Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe but no journey times, so this guide gives none.
+0.7% since 2015
202,544 → 226,432
45.34km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
10.2 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
21.1km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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