Ibaraki City

Lotus base and cross, cut in one stone.

Keicho 6 Christian tombstone

Photo by Yanajin33 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Archaeological site

A stone mold for a dotaku bellcame out nearly intact on one face.

In 1973 fragments of a dotaku (bronze bell) mold were unearthed at the Higashinara Site, and the No. 1 mold was found the next year. It is a stone mold cut with a flowing-water pattern, 43.5 cm tall and weighing 28 kg. The finds including the mold are a national Important Cultural Property. The city's museum normally shows a replica (the photo is of a 2009 display).

43.5 cm tall, 28 kg
Mold fragments unearthed in 1973
Finds including the mold: national Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Burial mound

An Edo-period guidebook introduces the moundat Taishokkan Shrine as an old tomb.

Taishokkan was a court rank conferred on Fujiwara no Kamatari. The shrine that bears its name has no hall: beyond the stone steps, a small shrine stands inside the burial mound's stone chamber. In the Edo period the mound was thought to be Kamatari's tomb, and a signpost to it still stands. The city says veneration of Taishokkan remains strong in the Ai area and its surroundings.

Introduced in the Settsu Meisho Zue guidebook
A signpost to the "tomb of Lord Fujiwara no Kamatari"
No hall; a shrine inside the stone chamber

03 ／ Traditional vegetable

In a farming method kept since the Edo period,fermentation heat from straw and hay grows udo.

Mishima udo is a specialty grown in the former Mishima District since the Tenpo era of the Edo period, and one of Osaka Prefecture's "Naniwa no Dento Yasai" (traditional vegetables of Osaka). Udo plants are set in an udo hut, covered with straw and hay, and kept warm by the heat of fermentation. The shoots push up through the straw and hay without touching outside air.

Grown since the Edo-period Tenpo era
A Naniwa traditional vegetable
Heat of fermentation from straw and hay

Living here

14 minutes from Osaka, 28 from Kyoto by JR Rapid.

about 290,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To JR Ibaraki Station it is 14 minutes from Osaka Station on the JR Rapid of the Tokaido Main Line (JR Kyoto Line), and 28 minutes from Kyoto Station on the Rapid. The Special Rapid does not stop here. The city gives about 17 minutes from Umeda to Hankyu's Ibaraki-shi Station on the Kyoto Line by limited express.

People living here: 287,730people
Area: 76.49km²
Households: 125,089households
Rent (average for rentals): 68,030yen
Healthcare: 14 hospitals ／ 246 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —38 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.

Ibaraki City in Japan34.816°N 135.569°E

to OsakaJR Rapid14min
to KyotoJR Rapid28min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（timetable.jr-odekake.net）。line-timetable/2234（琵琶湖線・JR京都線・JR神戸線米原～大阪～姫路下り）と line-timetable/2235（同上り）を、2026-10-14（水）と 2026-10-17（土）の2日分取った。町の外の駅『発』→茨木『発』を、同じ列車の列で数えた。茨木駅の行は『発』だけで『着』の行が無い（停車は1分前後）ので『発』どうしの差を採った。『運転日注意』の欄が空の列車（水曜・土曜の両方のページで同じ列車番号・同じ時刻で空）だけを毎日運転として数えた。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Ibaraki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.0km

Osaka Prefecture: 高槻市, 箕面市, 摂津市, 豊能町, 吹田市
Kyoto Prefecture: 亀岡市

Ibaraki City isthis kind of town.

01The Keicho 6 Christian tombstone is a city-designated stone found at Kurusu-yama in Sendaiji. It is carved with a double-branched cross and a lotus pedestal, and bears inscriptions reading "Keicho 6" and "April 1"
02A stone dotaku mold from the Higashinara Site came out nearly intact on one face, and an Edo-period guidebook introduced the mound at Taishokkan Shrine as an old tomb. Abuyama Kofun is also said by some to be Kamatari's tomb
03Mishima udo has been grown in the former Mishima District since the Edo-period Tenpo era. The city says the Koriyama post-town honjin, a National Historic Site, is closed to the public. Osaka is 14 minutes away by JR Rapid

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ibaraki City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗