Suita City

A headman's house, likened to a lord's.

Former Nakanishi Residence

Photo by 鵜飼実幸 (CC0)

01 ／ Kofun

A stone coffin was placedinside a burial chamber built of wood.

Suita City Museum has a full-size reconstruction of the burial chamber of Shin-ashiya Kofun. A full set of horse fittings came from beside the stone coffin, and 32 Sue ware vessels had been placed there. The coffin was covered with sand in a roof shape, logs were laid over it like rafters, and clay was applied. The excavated horse fittings are a prefectural cultural property.

Chamber built of wood
32 Sue ware vessels
Horse fittings: prefectural property, 1991

02 ／ Tile kilns

200 m northeast of a kiln that supplied the Heian Palace's tiles,stands one that supplied the Naniwa Palace's.

At the Kishibe Tile Kiln Site, flat kilns and climbing kilns stand in two tiers, and green-glazed tiles were fired first in a flat kiln, then again in a climbing kiln after glazing. Seven kilns have been confirmed at the Nanao Tile Kiln Site, and tiles from the same mold have been found in large numbers around the inner palace of the Naniwa Palace of Emperor Shomu's reign.

Kishibe Tile Kiln Site: National Historic Site, 1971
Nanao Tile Kiln Site: National Historic Site, 1980
Nanao: 7 kilns

03 ／ Garden

Along water flowing from west to east,four eras of garden design stand in a row.

This garden was built for the 1970 Japan World Exposition as a Japanese government exhibition facility. Styles of the Heian period, the Kamakura-Muromachi period, the Edo period and the modern era of 1970 follow one another along a stream. It became a national Registered Monument on 11 October 2024.

Total area 260,000 m²
1,300 m east-west, 200 m north-south
National Registered Monument, 2024

Living here

9 minutes from Osaka, 37 from Kyoto.

about 390,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To JR Suita Station it is 9 minutes from Osaka and 37 minutes from Kyoto on a local train of the JR Kyoto Line. Only local trains stop at Suita, and these are the fastest times among trains that run every day. City Hall is right outside the west gate of Hankyu Suita Station on the Senri Line.

People living here: 385,567people
Area: 36.09km²
Households: 180,099households
Rent (average for rentals): 67,608yen
Healthcare: 15 hospitals ／ 373 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —44 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.

Suita City in Japan34.760°N 135.517°E

to OsakaJR Local9min
to KyotoJR Local37min

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（JR神戸線・JR京都線・琵琶湖線米原→姫路下り）と line-timetable/2235（同姫路→米原上り）を、同じ列車の列で数えた (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Suita City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.6km

豊中市, 大阪市, 茨木市, 摂津市, 箕面市

Suita City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Nakanishi Residence belonged to the Nakanishi family, village headmen of Kishibe Higashi Village who also served as senior headmen for Yodo domain lands in the district. The present buildings were put in order from Bunsei 9 (1826), centered on the main house, and a garden was made by digging down in front of it. It was donated to the city in 2007, and its garden is a national Registered Monument
02Shin-ashiya Kofun has a burial chamber built of wood, and its excavated horse fittings are a prefectural cultural property. Kishibe Tile Kiln Site supplied tiles to the Heian Palace and Nanao Tile Kiln Site to the Naniwa Palace, and both are National Historic Sites
03The Japanese Garden in Expo '70 Commemorative Park became a national Registered Monument in 2024, and the Himebotaru firefly habitat in Senri Green Area is a city natural monument. Osaka is 9 minutes away by JR local train

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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