Kumatori Town

Cotton was woven inside brick walls.

Former Nakabayashi Cotton Mill

Photo by Ty19080914 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shoin hall

Gold-leaf paintings by a Kano-school artist in the upper room,plain flower-and-bird paintings in the next.

A shoin hall thought to date from the early Edo period, built with touches of the sukiya tea-house style. It became a national Important Cultural Property in 1952 and is normally closed to the public. The Furui family residence was added to the Japan Heritage story Katsuragi Shugen in fiscal 2024, and the Furui family documents were registered as an Osaka Prefecture cultural property in 2026.

Important Cultural Property, 1952
Added to Japan Heritage, fiscal 2024
334 documents registered by the prefecture

02 ／ Dutch learning

A scholar of Dutch learning and the head of the Naka familytried electrical induction on a pine in the grounds.

In the mid-Edo period, the Dutch-learning scholar Hashimoto Sokichi and the head of the Naka family carried out an experiment in electrical induction using a pine in the grounds of Naka House, a national Important Cultural Property. Sokichi's book on the elekiteru presents it as a diagram of drawing down fire from heaven in the Kumatori valley of Senshu. Osaka Prefecture says the pine has died.

Town Historic Site, 1996
Presented in Sokichi's book on the elekiteru
The pine has died (Osaka Prefecture)

03 ／ Temple architecture

A small hall roofed in Gyoki style,with round tiles laid one shifted from the next.

A small hall of three bays by three, about 30 square metres, designated a national Important Cultural Property in 1949. It has the architectural style of the Kamakura period, and its roof is laid in the very old Gyoki style, with round tiles whose ends are narrowed and shifted one by one. The temple's founding and history are unknown.

Important Cultural Property, 1949
3 bays by 3, about 30 square metres
Gyoki-style roof

Living here

49 minutes from Osaka Station by rapid train.

about 40,000 people
60 min to a city centre
Rural district town

From Osaka Station, a rapid train bound for Kansai Airport that runs through onto the Hanwa Line reaches Kumatori Station in 49 minutes with no change of trains. It is the town's only station. The town says the Town Office is about 1.7 km away: about a 20-minute walk, or about 5 minutes by bus or taxi.

People living here: 43,763people
Area: 17.24km²
Households: 17,256households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,551yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 33 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

Kumatori Town in Japan34.401°N 135.356°E

to OsakaJR Rapid49min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』（timetable.jr-odekake.net。ページに「JRデータの内容は、株式会社交通新聞社発行の『JR時刻表』2026年10月号に基づいています」。日付を2026年10月14日〈水〉で引いた）の区間時刻表（大阪環状線内回り・外回り）と、各列車の詳細ページ（運転日・各駅の着発時刻）。大阪『発』→熊取『着』を、列車ごとに1本ずつ開いて数えた。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Kumatori Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.1km

貝塚市, 泉佐野市

Kumatori Town isthis kind of town.

01The former Nakabayashi cotton mill was a brick cotton-cloth mill built in 1928 and is now the Renga-kan exchange centre. Three of its buildings, the boiler house, the power-receiving house and the office, are designated town cultural properties
02Furui House's shoin hall belonged to the family of one of the seven village heads of the Kishiwada domain, and Hashimoto Sokichi's electrical-induction experiment used a pine in the grounds of Naka House, a Town Historic Site
03Raigo-ji Temple's main hall is a small hall in the Kamakura-period style with a Gyoki-style roof. Osaka Station is 49 minutes away by rapid train, and Kumatori Station is the town's only station

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

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