Minoh City

One theory: a farm tool named the town.

Minoh Falls, quasi-national park

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Japanese macaques

Feeding first succeeded in 1954;a national Natural Monument in 1956.

The Minoh Mountain monkey habitat became a national Natural Monument on 28 December 1956. The city writes that in 1954 university researchers first succeeded in feeding the monkeys near Ryuan-ji Temple. The feeding ground was later moved into the mountains, contact with visitors was cut, and efforts to return the monkeys to nature continue. Feeding them has been banned by ordinance since April 2010.

Designated 28 December 1956
Feeding first succeeded in 1954 (city)
Feeding ban ordinance, April 2010

02 ／ Stone vaults

At eight points around the temple,stone platforms were set with buried images.

At the former precinct of Katsuo-ji Temple, the Hatten Ishigura are platforms of fieldstone in three tiers, about 4 m a side at the base and about 1 m high. Each held, in a jar, a bronze image of one of the four Wisdom Kings or four Heavenly Kings. Their name appears in a document of Kangi 2 (1230). The Agency for Cultural Affairs dates the milestone stones (choishi) to Hoji 1 (1247) and calls them the oldest now known.

National Historic Site, 1966
Excavated images: Important Cultural Property, 1987
Milestone stones of Hoji 1 (1247)

03 ／ Lottery boxes

Lottery boxes, wooden tags and an awlare a prefectural folk cultural property.

Ryuan-ji Temple's lottery boxes survive as a set: three boxes, wooden tags, Goo-hoin talisman prints, an awl and more. Osaka Prefecture designated them a tangible folk cultural property on 30 March 1973, and its list gives the period as Momoyama, with a temple tradition of Tensho 3 (1575). The Minoh tourism association introduces the temple's Minoh-tomi lottery as an event that began about 400 years ago.

Prefectural designation, 30 March 1973
Three boxes, tags, talisman prints, an awl
Momoyama; temple tradition of Tensho 3 (1575)

Living here

From Shin-Osaka, about 20 minutes with no change.

about 140,000 people

The city says it is about 20 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station on the Midosuji Line to Minoh-kayano Station on the Kita-Osaka Kyuko line, with through service and no change of trains. From Minoh-kayano it is about 10 minutes by Hankyu Bus to city hall. From Umeda the city gives 23 minutes to Makiochi Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka and Minoh lines (using an express as far as Ishibashi-handaimae), then about 600 metres to city hall.

People living here: 136,868people
Area: 47.9km²
Households: 58,088households
Rent (average for rentals): 63,694yen
Healthcare: 10 hospitals ／ 135 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —21 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.

Minoh City in Japan34.827°N 135.470°E

to Shin-OsakaKita-Osaka Kyuko20min

Travel times follow 箕面市公式「市役所への行き方」（https://www.city.minoh.lg.jp/shisei/access/index.html。更新日の表示なし・2026-10-14 取得）の「1.電車（バス）」の表に載る値。事業者の時刻表は『発』しか載らず着時刻が無いので分数は数え直せていない（北大阪急行箕面萱野駅の時刻表は下り〈なかもず・天王寺方面〉の発時刻だけ。Osaka Metro の梅田駅・新大阪駅『箕面萱野方面』も発時刻だけ） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Minoh City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.5km

Osaka Prefecture: 豊能町, 池田市, 茨木市, 豊中市, 吹田市
Hyogo Prefecture: 川西市

Minoh City isthis kind of town.

01Minoh Falls lies in Meiji no Mori Minoh Quasi-National Park, designated in 1967 to mark the centenary of the Meiji era. The city says the origin of the name Minoh is uncertain, but one theory is that the face of the falls resembled a winnowing tool (mi), giving the characters for Minoh
02The Minoh Mountain monkey habitat is a national Natural Monument; the city writes that after the 1954 feeding it moved the feeding ground into the mountains and continues management to return the monkeys to nature, and has drawn up a third management plan
03The former precinct of Katsuo-ji Temple, with the Hatten Ishigura and milestone stones, is a national Historic Site and the excavated images are a national Important Cultural Property; the lottery boxes of Ryuan-ji Temple are a prefectural tangible folk cultural property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Minoh City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗