Settsu City

A hall with chidori and kara gables.

Mashita Tenmangu, main hall

Photo by bittercup (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Stone tower

A tower said to be the bees' memorial moundhas a roof thought to be Kamakura-era.

The stone tower in the precincts of Kongo-in Temple is said to be the Hachizuka, the Bee Mound. According to the temple tradition, when bandits appeared and the temple's principal image, Yakushi Nyorai, was prayed to, a swarm of bees appeared and drove the bandits off. The Hachizuka is said to commemorate those bees, and the temple was renamed Hachikumayama Buzen-ji Kongo-in. Many fragments of stone works can be seen in the tower.

Bee Mound of temple tradition
Fragments of stone works
Roof thought to be Kamakura-era

02 ／ Livelihood

In the foot-treadle era, thin mats werethe benchmark for Osaka market specifications.

Mashita in Settsu was once known as a mat-producing area, a sideline in the farming off-season. In the foot-treadle era, the thin, packing-use "Mashita mushiro" had become the benchmark of specification in the Osaka market. The structure of the two-person loom has basically not changed since the Muromachi period.

Thin, for packing
Foot-treadle era
Two-person loom, unchanged since the Muromachi period

03 ／ Torii

A stone torii on the shrine approachalso appears in Settsu Meisho Zue.

A torii on the approach road to Fujimori Shrine. It is a large stone torii of the Myojin type with inscriptions on both sides, and the era year Enkyo 2 (1745) can be read. It also appears in Settsu Meisho Zue and Yodogawa Ryogan Ichiran.

Myojin-type stone torii
Inscribed Enkyo 2 (1745)
Shown in Settsu Meisho Zue

Living here

14 minutes from Osaka, 32 from Kyoto.

about 90,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To JR Senrioka Station it is 14 minutes from Osaka and 32 minutes from Kyoto on a local train of the Tokaido Main Line (JR Kyoto Line). The nearest station to City Hall is Settsu Station on the Osaka Monorail, about a 5-minute walk.

People living here: 87,456people
Area: 14.87km²
Households: 40,243households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,373yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —19 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.

Settsu City in Japan34.777°N 135.562°E

to OsakaJR Local14min
to KyotoJR Local32min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（ページの日付 2026-10-14・水）。line-timetable/2235（琵琶湖線・JR京都線・JR神戸線姫路→米原上り）で大阪『発』→千里丘『発』、line-timetable/2234（同米原→姫路下り）で京都『発』→千里丘『発』を、同じ列車の列で数えた。千里丘の行は『発』だけで『着』の行が無いので『発』どうしの差（停車は1分前後） (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Settsu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.0km

茨木市, 吹田市, 大阪市, 守口市, 高槻市, 寝屋川市

Settsu City isthis kind of town.

01The main hall of Mashita Tenmangu Shrine is a one-bay nagare-zukuri building of 1635 (Kan'ei 12) with a front chidori gable and a kara gable on the eaves, roofed in cypress bark. The city board of education records that Oda Naonaga, fifth son of Oda Urakusai, built it, and it became an Osaka Prefecture Designated Tangible Cultural Property in 1993
02The stone tower at Kongo-in is called the Hachizuka, and temple tradition says a swarm of bees drove off bandits. In the foot-treadle era, thin packing mats of Mashita were the standard of the Osaka market. The stone torii of Fujimori Shrine also appears in Settsu Meisho Zue
03The former Hitotsuya Public Hall, a city-designated Tangible Cultural Property, was built as a theater with a stage, a basement dressing room, gallery seats and a kuromisu screen. Torikai eggplant is one of the Prefecture's Naniwa traditional vegetables. Osaka is 14 minutes away by JR local train

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Settsu City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗