Ikoma City

Whisk bamboo turns white in winter sun.

Takayama chasen, bamboo kanboshi

Photo by Degueulasse (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Gyoki's tomb

A gilt-bronze fragment was kept by a familysaid to descend from a disciple of Gyoki.

Gyoki's tomb stands within the grounds of Chikurinji Temple, a square mound about 10 m on a side. The city explains it as the burial place said to be where Gyoki, as he had instructed, was laid to rest in the eastern hills of Mt. Ikoma. It was opened in 1235 (Bunryaku 2), and most of the finds were later scattered. The fragment now at the Nara National Museum was kept by a family in the same district said to descend from a disciple of Gyoki; eighteen characters can be read.

National Historic Site, 1921
Opened in 1235 (Bunryaku 2)
Eighteen characters legible (city)

02 ／ Kuragari Pass

On a road linking Yamato and Kawachi,stone paving keeps a trace of the past.

暗峠.jpg — Photo by Zdz2015 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kuragari Pass is a saddle 455.8 m above sea level on the boundary between Nishihata, Ikoma, and Toyoura, Higashiosaka, in Osaka Prefecture. The city records that the Kuragarigoe Nara Kaido was used for travel from the Nara period. Nara Prefecture's hiking map calls the pass part of the busiest of the roads linking Yamato and Kawachi, and says its stone paving keeps a trace of those days.

455.8 m above sea level
Used for travel from the Nara period (city)
Stone paving keeps a trace of the past (prefectural map)

03 ／ Miyaza

The Musokunin-za of Takayama Hachimangualso tends the Takayama family graves.

Takayama Hachimangu has seven miyaza, shrine guilds, designated by the city as an intangible folk cultural property. Each year on 3 April the Musokunin-za cleans and holds a memorial at the Takayama family graveyard in a nearby temple, and on 12 April it attends the memorial day of the priest Kokei, who came from the Takayama clan. Kokei was the seventh son of the clan's last head, and devoted half his life to restoring the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple and rebuilding its hall.

Seven miyaza
City-designated intangible folk cultural property
3 April: cleaning and memorial at the Takayama family graveyard

Living here

From Ikoma Station, 19 minutes to Osaka Namba.

about 120,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Ikoma Station on the Kintetsu Nara Line, the rapid express reaches Osaka Namba in 19 minutes with no change. It is in both the weekday and weekend and holiday timetables (Kintetsu station timetable, as of 14 March 2026). To reach Takayama, the city's digital museum directs visitors to take a bus bound for Shoda from Kintetsu Tomio Station and get off at Takayama Hachimangu.

People living here: 116,675people
Area: 53.15km²
Households: 47,666households
Rent (average for rentals): 60,753yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 96 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —18 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Ikoma City in Japan34.692°N 135.701°E

to OsakaKintetsu Nara Line rapid express19min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026年3月14日現在」）。生駒駅（奈良線・slCode=350-16）の『大阪難波・神戸三宮(阪神)方面』の平日・土休日の全列車と、大阪難波駅（slCode=350-0）の『近鉄奈良・近鉄名古屋・賢島方面』の平日・土休日の全列車について、各列車の停車駅表（T7）を1本ずつ開いて数えた（生駒『発』→大阪難波『着』と、大阪難波『発』→生駒『着』）。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 11 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Ikoma City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.0km

Nara Prefecture: 奈良市, 平群町, 大和郡山市, 斑鳩町
Osaka Prefecture: 四條畷市, 交野市, 東大阪市, 枚方市, 大東市
Kyoto Prefecture: 精華町, 京田辺市

Ikoma City isthis kind of town.

01Takayama chasen is the bamboo whisk used to prepare tea in the tea ceremony, a local specialty the city describes as a nationally designated traditional craft. The city's newsletter says that in the cold season, hachiku bamboo that has had its oil removed is dried in the sun, which draws out the moisture, gives the bamboo a gloss and turns it white, and also writes that over 90 percent of Japanese-made whisks come from Takayama
02Gyoki's tomb is a national Historic Site within the grounds of Chikurinji. Kuragari Pass is a saddle at 455.8 m on the south side of Mt. Ikoma, which the city calls a pass on the Kuragarigoe Nara Kaido, used for travel from the Nara period. The main hall of Takayama Hachimangu, built in 1572, is an Important Cultural Property
03Also in the city, the tomb of Mino no Okamaro, in a residential area, is a prefectural Historic Site and its epitaph, held by the Tokyo National Museum, is an Important Cultural Property. The fire festival of Ikoma Shrine is a prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property, and the main hall of Chokyuji Temple is a National Treasure

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ikoma City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗