Ikeda City

A stone tower stands in a huge chamber.

Hachizuka Kofun, 13-tier pagoda

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Kofun

A keyhole-shaped tomb on a planned housing sitewas saved by citizen volunteers.

A keyhole-shaped mound built in the mid-4th century, 59.5 m long according to the 2016 excavation. It lay on the planned site of the Satsukigaoka housing estate and was due to be lost to development, but it remains as it was, in Chausuyama Park. It is an Osaka Prefecture Historic Site, and protection work was completed in 2018.

Built in the mid-4th century
59.5 m long (2016 survey)
Prefectural Historic Site, 1972

02 ／ Legend

A legend of weaving princessesbecame the city emblem's well frame and spool.

The legend says sisters from the state of Wu came and spread the art of weaving; the city calls it "only a legend." In the city emblem, the well frame stands for the Somedono well and the spool for the place that honors the two princesses. The place names Kurehacho, Himemurocho and Ayaha are tied to the story. Similar tales remain in Nishinomiya and Kawanishi, Nara.

Kurehatori and Ayahatori
Emblem: well frame and spool
Place names: Kurehacho, Himemurocho, Ayaha

03 ／ Fire festival

Paired torches, joined into the character "person,"are carried through the city at night.

Every year on 24 August, the characters "Dai-ichi" and "Dai" are lit on the slope of Mt. Satsuki. It is said to have begun in Shoho 1 (1644), when four men lit a fire on the mountain top, and it became an Osaka Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 2010. The fire of "Dai" is brought to Hoshi-no-miya, where the weaving princesses are said to have woven.

Every 24 August
Each torch about 4 m long, about 100 kg
Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 2010

Living here

19 minutes to Osaka-Umeda by Hankyu Express.

about 100,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Hankyu Ikeda Station on the Takarazuka Line, the fastest Express reaches Osaka-Umeda Station in 19 minutes. City Hall is a 2-minute walk from Ikeda Station, and the city has two Hankyu stations, Ikeda and Ishibashi-handaimae.

People living here: 104,993people
Area: 22.14km²
Households: 48,611households
Rent (average for rentals): 63,747yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 103 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —19 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.

Ikeda City in Japan34.822°N 135.429°E

to OsakaHankyu Takarazuka Line express19min

Travel times follow 阪急電鉄公式「池田駅宝塚線大阪梅田方面」時刻表（平日・土曜休日）の各列車の「一列車時刻表」（池田発→大阪梅田着）を数えた値。市公式シティプロモーションサイトの『阪急電車で池田駅～大阪梅田駅約20分』とも合う (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Ikeda City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.5km

Osaka Prefecture: 箕面市, 豊中市
Hyogo Prefecture: 川西市, 伊丹市

Ikeda City isthis kind of town.

01Hachizuka Kofun is a round mound 45 m across, built at the end of the 6th century. A stone 13-tier pagoda of the Muromachi period stands inside the burial chamber of its huge horizontal-entry stone chamber. The mound is an Osaka Prefecture Historic Site and the pagoda an Important Cultural Property
02Ikeda Chausuyama Kofun is a keyhole-shaped mound of the mid-4th century, saved by citizen volunteers from a planned housing site. The city emblem's well frame and spool come from a legend of weaving princesses from the state of Wu
03The Atago fire of Mt. Satsuki (Gangara-bi) on 24 August, with torches carried through the city, is a prefecturally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Osaka-Umeda is 19 minutes away by Hankyu Express

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

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