Tondabayashi City

A triangular gable sits on a curved one.

Nishikiori Shrine main hall

Photo by Nankou Oronain (as36… (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Temple town

The town founded in the Warring States erahad only four gated entrances.

Tondabayashi Jinaimachi was opened in the mid-16th century, when a priest of Kosho-ji Temple bought a plot of wasteland. Its development was entrusted to eight holders of village-headman status from four nearby villages. The six streets and seven blocks measure about 400 m east-west and 350 m north-south. Corner jogs called atemage, a protective moat and fragments of the earthen bank still recall the old town.

4 entrances
About 400 m by 350 m
Selected 1997 as a preservation district

02 ／ Old family house

From an old sake-brewing family of the temple towncame a poet of the Myojo school.

The Former Sugiyama House is among the oldest town houses in the temple town, the city writes, and became an Important Cultural Property in 1983. Its large alcove holds a painting of an old pine by an artist of the Kano school, and a spiral staircase was added north of the kitchen in later years. The poet Isonokami Tsuyuko (real name Sugiyama Taka) came from this family.

Important Cultural Property, 26 Dec 1983
Isonokami Tsuyuko (Sugiyama Taka)
Pine painting by a Kano-school artist

03 ／ Burial mound

The roof tiles laid around the stone coffinwere those used to found Shindo-haiji Temple.

A 1960 excavation confirmed that flat roof tiles had been laid all around the stone coffin. They were used when Shindo-haiji Temple was founded, and the designation text assumes the person buried here was connected with the temple's founding. In 2002 the mound was designated a National Historic Site together with the temple site and the Oganji Pond tile kiln site.

Flat tiles around the coffin
National Historic Site, 19 Dec 2002
Temple, kiln and tomb close together

Living here

29 minutes from Osaka Abenobashi by semi-express.

about 110,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The city says it takes about 30 minutes by Kintetsu from Osaka Abenobashi, with Tondabayashi-nishiguchi Station the nearest. By timetable, the fastest semi-express on the Minami-Osaka and Nagano lines takes 29 minutes, on weekdays and on weekends and holidays alike.

People living here: 108,699people
Area: 39.72km²
Households: 45,699households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,913yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 87 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Tondabayashi City in Japan34.500°N 135.597°E

to OsakaKintetsu Minami-Osaka Line semi-express29min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026/3/14現在」）の大阪阿部野橋駅（slCode=349-0）・富田林西口駅（slCode=355-3）・富田林駅（slCode=355-2）の発車時刻表（平日 dw=0／土休日 dw=1。05時台から終電まで）と、各列車の停車駅発着表（T7）。市公式『市役所へのアクセス』の鉄道の節。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Tondabayashi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.3km

河南町, 河内長野市, 大阪狭山市, 千早赤阪村, 堺市, 羽曳野市, 太子町

Tondabayashi City isthis kind of town.

01The main hall of Nishikiori Shrine is a Muromachi-period building and a national Important Cultural Property. It has a hip-and-gable, cypress-bark roof, with a chidori gable at the front and a curved karahafu gable over the porch. The city calls it the earliest example of a shrine building combining the two gables, and says the shrine is traditionally held to have been founded in 1363
02Tondabayashi Jinaimachi was selected in 1997 as a national Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, with six streets and seven blocks centered on Kosho-ji Temple. The Former Sugiyama House, the home of Isonokami Tsuyuko, became an Important Cultural Property in 1983, and the city bought it and opened it to the public
03A votive plaque at Migukurumitama Shrine, showing a Joseon-dynasty Korean embassy's boat on the Yodo River, bears an inked dedication year of 1695 and was designated a city cultural property in 2022. Two tusk fossils found at a construction site in the Habikino hills in 1981 are judged highly likely to be Akebono elephant and were designated by the city in 2024

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.

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