Toyonaka City

A crocodile fossil came out of campus.

Machikanewani, Machikaneyama

Photo by Eveningbeach (CC0)

01 ／ Pottery

Soil taken for Shonai Elementary School'sbuilding turned up many pots.

Around 1936 (Showa 11), earth was being taken for the Shonai Elementary School building when many pots appeared. They date to the end of the Yayoi period, and in 1965 (Showa 40) were named "Shonai-style pottery" after the find site. Some jars are scraped as thin as 1 to 2 mm on the inside.

Around 1936: found while digging soil
1965: the name was given
Inner wall as thin as 1 to 2 mm in some jars

02 ／ Burial goods

A dagger with an iron blade set in agreen tuff hilt was unearthed.

In the 1983 excavation, nearly 500 grave goods in total came out of three burial facilities of Otsuka Kofun, a round mound 56 m across in Nakasakurazuka. The weapons include a dagger with a stone hilt, and the finds were designated an Important Cultural Property as a set in 1986.

1983: excavation
Nearly 500 grave goods in total
1986: Important Cultural Property

03 ／ Baseball

The national middle-school baseball tournamentwas first held at Toyonaka Ground.

The first tournament, forerunner of the summer national high school baseball tournament, was held in 1915 at a ground built in 1913. The crowds were too large to hold, so from the third tournament the venue moved to Naruo Ballpark. The ground was torn down in the late Taisho era, and the site became a residential area.

1913: ground built
1915: first tournament
Venue moved to Naruo Ballpark from the third tournament

Living here

11 minutes to Osaka-umeda by express.

about 400,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Toyonaka Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line, the express reaches Osaka-umeda in 11 minutes without a change. City Hall is about 600 m east of Okamachi Station.

People living here: 401,558people
Area: 36.39km²
Households: 176,967households
Rent (average for rentals): 73,013yen
Healthcare: 19 hospitals ／ 430 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —76 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Toyonaka City in Japan34.782°N 135.470°E

to OsakaHankyu Takarazuka Line express11min

Travel times follow 阪急電鉄『駅の時刻表』（www.hankyu.co.jp/station/。豊中駅〔HK-46〕宝塚線の大阪梅田方面・宝塚方面、平日・土曜休日）と、各列車の一列車時刻表（停車駅と時刻）。2026-10-14 に取得 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Toyonaka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.4km

Osaka Prefecture: 吹田市, 箕面市, 池田市, 大阪市
Hyogo Prefecture: 尼崎市, 伊丹市

Toyonaka City isthis kind of town.

01The Machikanewani fossil is the fossil of a crocodile skeleton found in 1964 in strata around the Faculty of Science on the Toyonaka Campus of Osaka University. The university gives its length as 6.9 to 7.7 m, and it was designated a national Natural Monument on 18 September 2025
02Shonai-style pottery is a name given in 1965 (Showa 40) from pots unearthed when soil was taken for the Shonai Elementary School building, and the finds from Settsu-Toyonaka Otsuka Kofun, including a dagger with a stone hilt, are designated an Important Cultural Property as a set
03The first national middle-school baseball tournament was held at Toyonaka Ground in 1915, and from the third tournament the venue moved to Naruo Ballpark. Osaka-umeda is 11 minutes away on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line express

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Toyonaka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗