27301 ／ しまもとちょう
Osaka Prefecture 三島郡Stele back: a British envoy's English.
Parting stele, Sakurai Eki-ato01 ／ Shogi pieces
Shogi pieces handed down at Minasejingu, with related materials designated a town cultural property. The town records that Kanenari established their shape, thin and narrow at the tip and thick and wide at the base. His diary lists who received pieces from 1590 to 1602, and 53 sets went to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
02 ／ Spring water
A building with a hip-and-gable roof of pantiles stands just north of the main gate, and the front of its stone basin is carved "Hono Kanso". It became a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2016. The town and the shrine record that the water was chosen in 1985 (Showa 60) as one of Japan's 100 Selected Waters by the Environment Agency (now the Ministry of the Environment).
03 ／ Architecture
The plaque "Reitenkan" over the entrance is in the calligraphy of Konoe Fumimaro. After the war it served as the auditorium of the Osaka Prefectural Youth House, and in 2004 the town received it from the prefecture free of charge and made it a museum. A hip-and-gable building ringed by a mokoshi skirt roof, it was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2015.
Living here
To JR Shimamoto Station it is 17 minutes from Kyoto and 25 minutes from Osaka on the fastest JR Rapid that runs every day. The nearest station the town lists first is Hankyu's Minase Station on the Kyoto Line, about a 15-minute walk from the Town Office.
+3.1% since 2015
30,339 → 30,927
6.76km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.1 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 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/2234（琵琶湖線・JR京都線・JR神戸線 米原→姫路 下り）と line-timetable/2235（同 姫路→米原 上り）を取得し、同じ列車の列で、起点の駅『発』→島本『発』の差を数えた。島本駅の行は『発』だけで『着』の行が無い（停車は1分前後）ので、向日市・大山崎町と同じく『発』どうしの差を採った。運転日注意欄が空（毎日運転）の便だけから最速を採り、『平』（平日のみ）の便は採らない。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
7.2km
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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