Izumiotsu City

Spanish-style house in a seaside suburb.

Former Umino House

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shrine

Main halls of 1273 and 1602stand at the same shrine.

The main hall and two auxiliary shrine halls of Izumi Anashi Shrine are national Important Cultural Properties. The Sumiyoshi Shrine hall dates from Bun'ei 10 (1273) and the main hall from Keicho 7 (1602). The city notes the Sumiyoshi hall is said to be the oldest shrine main hall in the prefecture. The 80 wooden deity statues are also Important Cultural Properties.

Built in 1273 and 1602
3 halls, Important Cultural Properties
80 wooden deity statues

02 ／ Blankets

Izumiotsu's blankets beganwith cattle hair.

Blanket making in Izumiotsu began in the Meiji era, with cattle hair as the material. Made into cloth for clothing, it was too stiff and smelly to sell, so it became bedding, the city records. The wooden hand loom kept at the city's Oriamukan can use up to three weft colors. A local inventor devised that function in the early Taisho era.

Material: cattle hair
Up to 3 weft colors
Devised in the early Taisho era

03 ／ Residence

A headman's house served as the honjinof the Kii Tokugawa family's rest stop.

The Tanaka family of Sukematsu served as chief village headmen. The city says the residence along the old Kishu Kaido road was about 110 m (one cho) square. Six of its buildings are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties, including a granary built in 1823 as a famine measure, the earthen wall and the front gate. It is not open to the public.

6 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Granary built in 1823
About 110 m (one cho) square

Living here

19 minutes from Namba, by Nankai express.

about 70,000 people
30 min to a city centre

Nankai Main Line express, airport express and sub-express trains stop at Izumiotsu Station, 19 minutes from Namba at the fastest, with no change of trains. The nearest station to City Hall is also Izumiotsu Station, about a 5-minute walk from the east exit.

People living here: 74,412people
Area: 14.33km²
Households: 32,516households
Rent (average for rentals): 52,681yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 70 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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.

Izumiotsu City in Japan34.504°N 135.410°E

to OsakaNankai Main Line express19min

Travel times follow 南海電鉄『ダイヤ検索』（kensaku.nankai.co.jp/pc/N1・N2。事業者公式の経路検索）を 2026-10-14（水）・2026-10-18（日）で引いた。泉大津→難波と難波→泉大津の『乗換 0回』の経路の所要時間を、出発時刻を15〜20分おきに入れて数えた。毎日運転（平日・日曜に共通）の最速を採った。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Izumiotsu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.7km

和泉市, 忠岡町, 高石市

Izumiotsu City isthis kind of town.

01Former Umino House stands in a waterfront residential district developed from Taisho 9 (1920) and is a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Its exterior is Spanish in style, with Western-style rooms on the first floor and a Japanese-style room and tea room upstairs. The main house, wall and fountain were registered in 2017
02At Kawara-cho, the Crab Mound is said to have been raised to mourn the crabs that damaged crops during land reclamation, and the Otsu Odori dance, a city Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is said to have begun as that memorial. Hamakaido is a road whose layout, the city's tourist information center says, is almost the same as on a village map from the Empo era
03The city has three Nankai Main Line stations, Izumiotsu, Kita-Sukematsu and Matsunohama, and from Izumiotsu Station Namba is reached by express without changing. Sukematsu, along the Kishu Kaido road, has the Registered Tanaka House

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Izumiotsu City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗