Sennan City

Eroded hills looked like rivers of sand.

Sunagawa Kisho, name's origin

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Temple site

On the restored base, a five-story pagodaover 30 m tall is thought to have stood.

A National Historic Site where the pagoda base was restored on the basis of excavation. The bronze roban (base plate of the spire) found here was combined with a roban of tuff carried from Mount Nijo to form the spire's foundation. The finds, taken together, are an Important Cultural Property.

National Historic Site, 1987
Roban of bronze and stone combined
Finds designated Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Post town

The sites of a honjin, inns and a lantern remain,recalling the post town on the Kumano road.

In Shindachi-juku along the Kumano Kaido, the sites of a honjin (official lodging), hatago inns and a permanent lantern remain. Many old houses are irimoya-style with the entrance on the gable side, narrow-fronted and deep. Umayado-oji is said to be one of the Kumano Ninety-Nine Oji shrines, and is an Osaka Prefecture Historic Site.

Sites of a honjin, inns and a lantern
Old irimoya-style, gable-entrance houses
Umayado-oji: prefectural Historic Site

03 ／ Farmhouse

The estate of a headman's farming familykeeps its Edo-period look almost intact.

The Yamada family of Shinge served as village headmen (shoya) for generations. Eight items, including the main house, rice storehouse, earthen storehouse, front gate and long gate, are national Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. In 2002 it became the first such registration in the city. It is a private home, and the city asks visitors not to tour it without permission.

8 items registered
2002: first registration in the city
A private home

Living here

44 minutes from Osaka by limited express.

about 60,000 people

To JR Izumi-Sunagawa Station it is 44 minutes from Osaka Station on the Limited Express Kuroshio, which requires a limited-express fee. On the Kishuji Rapid, which needs no extra fee, it takes 65 minutes. The city's tourism guide gives the walk from Izumi-Sunagawa Station to Shindachi-juku, with its wisteria, as 8 minutes.

People living here: 60,102people
Area: 48.98km²
Households: 23,123households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,413yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 40 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Sennan City in Japan34.366°N 135.273°E

to OsakaLtd. exp. Kuroshio44min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』の区間時刻表『阪和線・関西空港線（京都・大阪／天王寺～関西空港・和歌山）下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/2280?date=20261014）と『上り』（…/2283?date=20261014）、列車時刻表（くろしお19号 train-timetable/18841・紀州路快速4557H train-timetable/34191・くろしお2号 train-timetable/100391。いずれも ?date=20261014）。ダイヤは2026年10月3日改正のもの。南海電鉄『ダイヤ検索』（kensaku.nankai.co.jp/pc/N2。2026-10-14〈水〉と 2026-10-18〈日〉の05:00〜23:30を30分おきに引き、難波→樽井） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Sennan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.4km

Osaka Prefecture: 泉佐野市, 阪南市, 田尻町
Wakayama Prefecture: 岩出市, 紀の川市

Sennan City isthis kind of town.

01Sunagawa Kisho is a hill formed when sand and clay on the sea floor piled up and rose in the Pleistocene. The city records that its rain-worn shape looked like a river of flowing sand, giving the name Sunagawa, and that in 1932 the nearest station was renamed from Shindachi to Hanwa-Sunagawa. Part of it is preserved as a park
02Kaieji temple site is a National Historic Site with a pagoda base restored on the basis of excavation. Along the Kumano road in Shindachi-juku remain the sites of a honjin and inns and a lantern, and the city records that the wisteria of the Kajimoto family bears 40,000 flower clusters on one vine
03Yamada House was the home of a farming family that served as village headmen for generations, and in 2002 it became the first Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the city. It is a private home, so visitors should not tour it without permission. Osaka is 44 minutes away by the Limited Express Kuroshio

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

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