Shijonawate City

A 5th-century horse, cut out in its pit.

Shitomiyakita Site, buried horse

Photo by Saigen Jiro (Public domain)

01 ／ Castle site

Stone walls were used extensivelyacross the whole mountaintop castle.

A mountain castle site spanning Daito and Shijonawate, built on Mount Iimori at 314 m above sea level. It measures about 400 m east to west and 700 m north to south, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs says its scale is among the foremost in western Japan. Miyoshi Nagayoshi made it his home castle in the Sengoku period, and it became a National Historic Site on 11 October 2021.

National Historic Site, 11 Oct 2021
314 m above sea level
About 700 m north-south, 400 m east-west

02 ／ Kofun

A stone chamber found while rebuilding a shrinenow has a cover built through local enthusiasm.

A keyhole-shaped mound about 87 m long. The prefecture's explanation says it is a 4th-century tomb with a pit-style stone chamber in the rear mound. To preserve it, the chamber is normally viewed through the lattice of its protective cover. Designated a Prefectural Historic Site in 1972, the mound carries Shinobugaoka Shrine, a shrine listed in the Engishiki.

About 87 m long
Prefectural Historic Site, 31 Mar 1972
Viewed through the cover's lattice

03 ／ Architecture

The registry shelves still standin the storehouse of a former court branch.

Built in 1907 as a branch of the Hirakata District Court, with offices on the first floor and a document store on the second. It is a two-storey storehouse in the dozo-zukuri earthen-wall style, and its windows have iron doors and bars. Registry-book shelves and counter windows remain inside. It became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on 15 May 2007 and is now the exhibition room of the city museum of history and folklore.

Built 1907
Registered 15 May 2007
Two-storey dozo-zukuri

Living here

24 minutes from Kitashinchi in Osaka by JR Regional Rapid.

about 60,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To Shinobugaoka Station on the JR Gakkentoshi Line it is 24 minutes by Regional Rapid from Kitashinchi on the JR Tozai Line. For Osaka Station, change at Kyobashi. City Hall is about a 15-minute walk from the station. JR Shijonawate Station is in neighboring Daito.

People living here: 55,177people
Area: 18.69km²
Households: 22,415households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,206yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 36 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

Shijonawate City in Japan34.740°N 135.639°E

to OsakaJR Regional Rapid24min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』の区間時刻表（timetable.jr-odekake.net。2026-10-14〈水〉と 2026-10-17〈土〉の2日ぶんを、第2段で北新地→忍ケ丘の向きに数え直した）。学研都市線（片町線）・JR東西線・JR宝塚線・福知山線の上り（福知山〜尼崎〜新大阪・木津）line-timetable/2275 の全列車の表を、北新地『発』→忍ケ丘『着』で同じ列車番号の列ごとに数えた。第1段は忍ケ丘『発』→北新地『着』の向き（line-timetable/2274・2275・2234・2235）。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Shijonawate City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.3km

Osaka Prefecture: 寝屋川市, 大東市, 交野市
Nara Prefecture: 生駒市

Shijonawate City isthis kind of town.

01Shitomiyakita Site is a large settlement of the middle and late Kofun period, which the prefecture records as the settlement of horse keepers. A horse skeleton from a 5th-century pit was cut out together with the pit and is displayed at the Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum (Kanan). The horse gear and the attached buried-horse skeleton were designated a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property in 2012
02Iimori Castle Ruins, a National Historic Site on the border with Daito, is a mountain castle that Miyoshi Nagayoshi made his home castle. Shinobugaoka Kofun is a keyhole-shaped mound about 87 m long, and its pit-style stone chamber has a protective cover
03The museum's exhibition room is a storehouse built in 1907 as a former court branch. The museum also keeps on permanent display the Kirishitan tombstone of Tawara Reiman from the Senko-ji temple site, inscribed with the year Tensho 9. It is 24 minutes from Kitashinchi in Osaka by Regional Rapid

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shijonawate City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗