Daito City

A 25 m round tomb held iron armor.

Doyama Kofun, Mound 1 armor

01 ／ Stonecutting tools

44 modern stonecutting tools and related itemscome from a quarry used to rebuild Osaka Castle.

The city records that the Ryuma quarry came into use with Hideyoshi's building of Osaka Castle and was used again when the Tokugawa rebuilt it. Stones with the marks of the domains and wedge holes remain nearby. In modern times eight households worked as stonecutters, and 42 tools from the Taisho era to the 1940s, plus two related items, are city-designated.

44 items designated by the city
8 households worked as stonecutters
Rebuilding ordered in 1620

02 ／ Lantern

A lantern commemorating the okage dancealso served as a signpost.

須波麻神社の石灯籠（併用道標）.jpg — Photo by 歯河長瀞夫 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

To the left of the entrance to Suhama Shrine in Nakagaito stands a lantern about 2.5 m high. It commemorates the okage dance of Bunsei 13 (1830) and also served as a signpost, and it was moved from along the nearby Higashi-Koya road. The shrine's name appears in the Engishiki shrine register, and it is described as the only such shrine in the city.

About 2.5 m high
The okage dance of 1830
Only shrine in the city in the Engishiki register

03 ／ Castle site

Called a phantom castle, its site is uncertain.A stone monument stands beside Sanga Sugawara Shrine.

Sanga Castle is said to have stood on an island in Fukano Pond, but no remains have been found, and the city calls it a phantom castle. A stone monument marking the castle site stands beside the shrine. A city series describes some ten parish representatives making 21 shimenawa ropes of straw each year in early December.

Phantom castle
Monument to the castle site
21 shimenawa ropes

Living here

17 minutes from Kitashinchi in Osaka by JR Rapid.

about 120,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To Suminodo Station on the JR Gakkentoshi Line it is 17 minutes by Section Rapid from Kitashinchi on the JR Tozai Line. For Osaka Station, change at Kyobashi. City Hall is a 10-minute walk northeast of the station, or one stop by the community bus.

People living here: 119,367people
Area: 18.27km²
Households: 52,686households
Rent (average for rentals): 52,417yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 80 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —21 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.

Daito City in Japan34.712°N 135.623°E

to OsakaJR Regional Rapid17min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』の区間時刻表（timetable.jr-odekake.net。ページに『JR時刻表』2026年10月号に基づくと表示）。学研都市線（片町線）・JR東西線・JR宝塚線・福知山線の下り（木津・新大阪〜尼崎〜福知山）と上り（福知山〜尼崎〜新大阪・木津）の全列車の表を取り、住道『発』→北新地『着』・京橋『着』と、北新地『発』→住道『着』を列ごとに数えた。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Daito City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.0km

Osaka Prefecture: 東大阪市, 四條畷市, 門真市, 大阪市, 寝屋川市
Nara Prefecture: 生駒市

Daito City isthis kind of town.

01Doyama Kofun Group is a group of eight tombs at the end of a ridge running west from the Ikoma Mountains. Mound 1 is a round tomb 25 m in diameter, and more than 200 iron grave goods, including iron armor and iron swords, came from it. The finds are a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property of Osaka and the group is a city historic site
02The city designates as Tangible Folk Cultural Property 42 stonecutting tools from the Taisho era to the 1940s, plus two related items, from Ryuma, where stones with the marks of the domains and wedge holes remain at the quarry. Suhama Shrine is the only Engishiki-listed shrine in the city, and the lantern at its entrance also served as a signpost
03Sanga Castle, said to have stood on an island in Fukano Pond, is called a phantom castle and its site is uncertain. It is 17 minutes by JR Section Rapid from Kitashinchi to Suminodo, and City Hall is about a 10-minute walk from the station

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Daito City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗