27322 ／ のせちょう
Osaka Prefecture 豊能郡Shrine-yard sand was said to repel ants.
Noma Zelkova, Arinashi-no-miya01 ／ Castle site
The residence of the Nose family, bannermen of the shogun, built from 1602 to 1615. The town's signboard records stone walls built high on all four sides of a castle 75 m by 110 m, and says the north wall, called Innai-zumi, was built by the people out of gratitude.
02 ／ Joruri
Sujoruri is told by a chanter with a thick-necked shamisen. The town writes that it has continued since the Bunka era (1804 to 1817). An oyaji trains five or six pupils, and over 100 stone monuments to chanters' new names stand in the town's districts. It is a prefectural intangible folk cultural property and was selected by the nation in 1999.
03 ／ Terraces
The Nagatani terraces cover about 30 ha at 200 to 400 m on the foot of Mt. Mikusa. The prefecture says a gama is a side tunnel that draws groundwater, and that its origin is said to go back over 400 years. Steep streams were enclosed in stone and topped with soil to make fields. It was selected as a "Tsunagu Tanada Isan" (a national terrace-heritage program) in 2022.
Living here
There is no railway station in the town; the town's guidebook gives Yamashita Station (Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture) as the starting point for leaving town. By the Hankyu Bus timetable it is 24 minutes from Yamashita Station to Nose Town Office, and 30 minutes the other way. The town describes itself as the northernmost point of Osaka Prefecture and, since old times, a crossroads linking Settsu Province and the Sea of Japan side.
−11.5% since 2015
13,876 → 9,079
21.35km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
7.7 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 能勢町公共交通ガイドブック（令和8年4月更新版。町公式『本町の公共交通について』〈更新日 2026-06-22〉に載るPDF R8_4_nose_guidebook.pdf。『本紙掲載の情報は令和8年2月末現在』。保存 $SP/osaka-nose/guide.pdf）の『３．路線バス（西能勢線）時刻表』（阪急バス猪名川営業所の73・74・77系統）。『②山下駅⇒宿野』の表で、山下駅発→能勢町役場前着が、平日ダイヤの12便（7:00→7:24、7:35→7:59、9:05→9:29、10:05→10:29、12:05→12:29、13:35→13:59、15:05→15:29、16:05→16:29、17:05→17:29、18:20→18:44、19:43→20:07、21:00→21:24）と土休日ダイヤの7便（7:40→8:04、10:05→10:29、12:05→12:29、15:05→15:29、16:30→16:54、18:20→18:44、20:15→20:39）のすべてで24分。平日・土休日ともに毎日運転で、『平日のみ』『特定日』の注記は無い。逆向き（能勢町役場前→山下駅）は『①宿野⇒山下駅』の表で全便30分（平日 6:17→6:47・7:37→8:07 ほか、土休日 6:57→7:27・8:27→8:57 ほか）。阪急バスの運行系統図（猪名川営業所3『猪名川町北部 能勢町西部』2024.10現在。https://www.hankyubus.co.jp/rosen/print/2117_inagawa_3.pdf）に、73系統＝山下駅〜山下〜森上〜能勢町宿野、74系統＝同〜大里〜口山内、77系統＝同〜豊中センター前があり、『能勢町役場前』の停留所は能勢町宿野と大里のあいだにある (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
13.9km
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