Tajiri Town

Mansion that overlooked a spinning mill.

Former Taniguchi Yoshimi Villa

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Yoshimiwase onion

A seed kept about 20 years in a tin under a floorsprouted in a germination test.

Yoshimiwase is a flat onion that could no longer be shipped to the farmers' cooperative in the late 1980s and vanished from the town. In 2006 a farmer's tins of seed, kept under his floor for about 20 years, came to light; at a prefectural technology centre, three tins averaged 40.7% germination. The town writes that it was revived after 20 years.

About 20 years in tins under a floor
Average germination 40.7% (three tins)
Cultivation resumed in fiscal 2006

02 ／ Monument

Once about half the town's land was onion fields;a monument to the growers stands west of Kasuga Shrine.

The stone monument on the west side of Kasuga Shrine was erected in 1913 to honour three Yoshimi farmers, credited with improving onion varieties and establishing production techniques. A town document cites a record that around 1942-43 about half of the town's land, before reclamation, was used for onions.

Erected in 1913
Honours three growers
Peak 90-94 ha (1942-43)

03 ／ Main hall

In the precinct, a main hall that Osaka Bunkazai Navisays conveys Momoyama architecture well.

The main hall of Kasho Shrine is a single-bay nagare-zukuri building with a chidori-hafu gable and a karahafu eave gable. Osaka Bunkazai Navi says it dates from the early Edo period and conveys Momoyama architecture well; it is thought to be from the early 17th century and has been a prefectural tangible cultural property since 1976. The roof is copper, once cypress bark, and the interior is closed.

Prefectural designation, 31 May 1976
Single-bay nagare-zukuri
Thought to be early 17th century

Living here

From Namba, 43 minutes by sub-express.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

The station the town guides visitors to is Yoshiminosato on the Nankai Main Line; the town office is about 350 m northeast. From Namba the sub-express takes 43 minutes on weekdays and 39 on weekends and holidays (fastest by timetable; 5-6 a day, with local trains by day). The town says about 40 minutes to Namba and about 30 to Wakayamashi Station.

People living here: 8,434people
Area: 5.62km²
Households: 3,734households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Tajiri Town in Japan34.394°N 135.291°E

to OsakaNankai Main Line section express43min

Travel times follow 南海電鉄『駅・時刻表』の吉見ノ里駅（南海本線・slCode=306-29）の『難波方面』『和歌山市方面』の平日・土休日の全列車の時刻表（kensaku.nankai.co.jp T5。ページに『2024年12月21日現在』）を開き、区間急行の全列車と普通の代表列車の停車駅表（T7）を1本ずつ開いて、吉見ノ里『発』→難波『着』と難波『発』→吉見ノ里『着』を数えた。町公式の『歴史・地勢』（更新2022-07-01）にも『難波駅（大阪市）までは約40分、和歌山市駅までは約30分の時間距離』とある (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Tajiri Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.9km

泉佐野市, 泉南市

Tajiri Town isthis kind of town.

01Tajiri Rekishikan (the former Taniguchi Yoshimi villa) is a Western-style house thought to have been begun in 1922 and completed in 1923 as Taniguchi Fusazo's villa. The town writes that the house, which overlooked a spinning mill, stands today as it did then; the prefecture designated it a tangible cultural property in 2005
02Yoshimiwase is a variety of Senshu yellow onion revived from seed that slept about 20 years in tins under a floor. A town document writes that today's Yoshimiwase was grown from seed taken from 17 bulbs that had not rotted by November 2008
03The monument to the founders of Senshu onion growing dates from 1913. The main hall of Kasho Shrine was designated a prefectural tangible cultural property in 1976, and Osaka Bunkazai Navi says it conveys Momoyama architecture well

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tajiri Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗