Chihayaakasaka Village

15 farmers formed a terrace-care group.

Shimoakasaka terraced paddies

Photo by KENPEI (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Frozen tofu

More than 50 factories in the early Showaera all closed in 1970.

Koridofu, frozen tofu, is what is also called koya-dofu. In Chihaya village (today's Chihaya district) it is said to have been made from the late Edo period, frozen naturally in a cold place. After artificial freezers allowed mass production around 1955, all the factories closed. Ten tools, including those for boiling and mashing soybeans, are village-designated Tangible Folk Cultural Properties.

50+ factories, early Showa
All factories closed, 1970
Village designation, 1 April 2019, 10 items

02 ／ Nagi Shrine

A reinforced-concrete earthen-style wallencloses the sides and back of the main hall.

Nagi Shrine, a subsidiary shrine of Takemikumari Shrine that enshrines Kusunoki Masashige, has a tsuijibei wall of reinforced concrete from 1938, 41 m in total length and plastered all over in lime. The worship hall dates from 1940 and has a karahafu gable over its porch; the village describes it as white Taiwan cypress. The buildings were registered as national Tangible Cultural Properties in 2021.

Wall, 41 m in total length
Worship hall, 1940
National registration, 4 Feb 2021

03 ／ Stone pagodas

The shogunate side's tower is said to bebuilt a little larger than the Kusunoki side's.

In the Moriya communal cemetery stand two large stone gorinto pagodas, called Yosetezuka to the north and Mikatazuka to the south. The village records a tradition that the Yosetezuka tower (the shogunate side) was built slightly larger than the Mikatazuka (the Kusunoki side), and explains that Yosetezuka dates from the late Kamakura period and Mikatazuka from the early Muromachi. Yosetezuka is a prefectural Tangible Cultural Property and Mikatazuka a prefectural Important Art Object.

Yosetezuka, prefectural designation, 1970
Mikatazuka, prefectural Important Art Object, 1947
Two large stone gorinto pagodas

Living here

18 minutes by bus from Tondabayashi Station.

about 5,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the village; the nearest is Tondabayashi Station on the Kintetsu Nagano Line, in Tondabayashi. By the timetable of the Kongo Furusato Bus Chihaya line it is 18 minutes from Tondabayashi Station to Chihayaakasaka Village Office on every run, with the same timetable on weekdays, weekends and holidays; the village says about 20 minutes. Its main industry is agriculture and forestry, and the village records Mt. Kongo as the highest point in Osaka Prefecture.

People living here: 4,909people
Area: 37.3km²
Households: 1,944households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Chihayaakasaka Village in Japan34.465°N 135.623°E

to TondabayashiLocal bus18min

Travel times follow 金剛ふるさとバス千早線『【千早線】時刻表富田林駅 ②番のりば』（富田林市公式サイト『金剛ふるさとバスポータルサイト』の『千早線（富田林駅〜千早赤阪村立中学校前）』のPDF https://www.city.tondabayashi.lg.jp/uploaded/attachment/108600.pdf 。PDF の作成日 2025-09-12・ポータルの運行路線ページの掲載日 2026-06-01・保存 $SP/chihayaakasaka/chihaya2.pdf）。**富田林駅（②番のりば）発→千早赤阪村役場着は全19便とも18分**（6:50→7:08、7:30→7:48、7:55→8:13、8:35→8:53、8:59→9:17、10:01→10:19、12:05→12:23、13:05→13:23、14:12→14:30、15:12→15:30、16:55→17:13、17:20→17:38、18:00→18:18、18:30→18:48、19:05→19:23、19:40→19:58、20:10→20:28、20:50→21:08、21:50→22:08。PDF の数字を機械で引き算して確かめた）。町公式『庁舎アクセス』（更新日 2025-10-01）は『富田林駅南口の金剛ふるさとバス2番乗り場から「千早赤阪村立中学校前」行のバスに乗車し「千早赤阪村役場」バス停にて下車（所要時間：約20分）』 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Chihayaakasaka Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.0km

Osaka Prefecture: 河南町, 河内長野市, 富田林市
Nara Prefecture: 御所市, 五條市, 葛城市

Chihayaakasaka Village isthis kind of town.

01The Shimoakasaka terraced rice fields spread near the site of Akasaka Castle and are among the 100 terraced rice-field districts selected by the national agriculture ministry; in 1999 a society of 15 local farmers was formed to look after them, and the village records 7.4 hectares, 250 plots and 42 farming households, while a Kinki Regional Agricultural Administration Office document gives an area of 6.1 ha
02Ten tools for making Chihaya's frozen tofu are village-designated Tangible Folk Cultural Properties; the more than 50 factories of the early Showa era had all closed by 1970
03The reinforced-concrete earthen-style wall of Nagi Shrine is a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property together with the worship hall and other buildings; the Yosetezuka in the Moriya cemetery is a prefectural Tangible Cultural Property and the Mikatazuka a prefectural Important Art Object

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Chihayaakasaka Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗