Izumi City

Izumi's five shrines, enshrined in one.

Gosha Soja, Izumi Inoue Shrine

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Kofun

A mirror dated Keisho 3 (239)came from the central burial facility.

Three burial facilities lined up east to west in the rear circular part were found in excavations in 1950-51. A bronze mirror with deities and animals (gamontai shinjukyo) from the central clay chamber bears the inscription Keisho 3 (239). The finds are designated together as Important Cultural Properties and kept by the Tokyo National Museum, and the kofun became a National Historic Site in 2008.

Keisho 3 (239) inscription
Finds designated together as Important Cultural Properties
National Historic Site, 2008

02 ／ Shrine

Small kasuga-zukuri halls stand together,one bay wide and three bays wide.

Hijiri Shrine is one of the five Izumi shrines, and the city's cultural property site calls it the third shrine of Izumi Province. Of its subordinate shrines, Taki Shrine has a one-bay hall and San Shrine a three-bay hall, both kasuga-zukuri with cypress-bark roofs of the Momoyama period. They became Important Cultural Properties in 1977, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs describes San Shrine's three-bay hall as a rare type.

One of the five Izumi shrines
2 subordinate shrines, Important Cultural Properties, 1977
San Shrine: three bays

03 ／ Archaeological site

A settlement from about 1,900 years agoremains in a housing-estate park.

A settlement built on the Shinodayama hills at the end of the Yayoi period. It came to light when Tsuruyamadai was developed, and part of it has been preserved as Tsuruyamadai Sogaike Park. Excavation found an iron arrowhead in a pit dwelling, which the city says is rarely found in the Senshu area. The whole park is a city-designated historic site.

About 1,900 years ago
Iron arrowhead
City-designated historic site

Living here

31 minutes from Namba by Nankai, 39 from Osaka by JR.

about 180,000 people

To Izumi-Chuo Station on the Nankai Senboku Line it is 31 minutes from Namba by sub-express. To Izumi-Fuchu Station on the JR Hanwa Line it is 39 minutes from Osaka by Kansai Airport Rapid or Kishuji Rapid. The nearest station to City Hall is Izumi-Fuchu, about an 8-minute walk.

People living here: 184,495people
Area: 84.98km²
Households: 73,701households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,087yen
Healthcare: 13 hospitals ／ 128 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —26 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.

Izumi City in Japan34.483°N 135.423°E

to OsakaNankai Senboku Line section express31min

Travel times follow 南海電鉄『ダイヤ検索』（事業者公式の経路検索）。2026-10-14（水）と 2026-10-18（日）の05:00〜23:30、30分おきの出発時刻で、難波『発』→和泉中央『着』の『乗換 0回』の経路を数えた（毎日運転の最速）。JRは JRおでかけネットの区間時刻表（line-timetable/2280・2283）の水・日の2日で比べた (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Izumi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.6km

Osaka Prefecture: 岸和田市, 堺市, 河内長野市, 泉大津市, 高石市, 忠岡町
Wakayama Prefecture: かつらぎ町

Izumi City isthis kind of town.

01Izumi-Gosha-Soja in the precinct of Izumi Inoue Shrine enshrines together the five shrines Otori, Izumi-anashi, Hijiri, Tsugawa and Hine, and the city's cultural property site says it was set up to simplify the provincial governor's round of the five. Its main hall is a Momoyama-period three-bay nagare-zukuri building and an Important Cultural Property, and the city says the name Izumi comes from the spring Izumi Shimizu in the precinct, a prefectural historic site
02Izumi Koganezuka Kofun is a keyhole-shaped mound of the early Kofun period and a National Historic Site, where a mirror inscribed Keisho 3 was found. The city's cultural property site calls Hijiri Shrine the third shrine of Izumi Province, and its main hall and those of the subordinate Taki and San shrines are Important Cultural Properties
03Sogaike Site is the remains of a settlement from the end of the Yayoi period, preserved as Tsuruyamadai Sogaike Park and designated by the city as a historic site. It is 31 minutes from Namba to Izumi-Chuo Station on the Nankai Senboku Line by sub-express

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Izumi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗