Hashimoto City

Kinokawa water, surveyed by mizumoridai.

Odai Canal, Ohata Saizo

Photo by Magna-sapientia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ School building

Long single-storey halls set in a comb shape,a timber school building of 1937.

The former Koyaguchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko school building became an Important Cultural Property in 2014. The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that it was built in Showa 12 (1937), with the north-south wing on the east side of the grounds as the front and four east-west wings behind it in a comb shape, covering more than 3,500 square metres. Renovation including seismic reinforcement was completed in Heisei 23 (2011), and it is still used as an elementary school.

Important Cultural Property, 2014
Built in Showa 12 (1937)
Four east-west wings in a comb shape

02 ／ Mirror

Of the 48 characters cast on the mirror,several are reversed.

The Jinbutsu Gazokyo mirror, handed down at Suda Hachiman Shrine, is a National Treasure. The Japan Tourism Agency's commentary says it is a bronze mirror from around the fifth century, and that the reversal of some of its 48 kanji characters shows the casters were not yet used to writing. The Tokyo National Museum is the repository of the original, and the commentary says a large replica is displayed at the shrine.

48-character inscription
National Treasure, 1951
Original kept at the Tokyo National Museum

03 ／ Place name

A bridge he built is saidto have given Hashimoto its name.

The city's tourism site says that Ogo Shonin, who trained at Koyasan, founded a town to open up wasteland at Kosada and built a bridge of about 235 metres over the Kinokawa River, and adds that the name Hashimoto is said to have come from it. He petitioned Hideyoshi and was granted a licence to trade in salt and an exemption from taxes, it says.

Bridge of about 235 m
Licence to trade in salt
Tax-exemption privilege

Living here

From Namba, 43 minutes by limited express.

about 60,000 people

Hashimoto Station serves the JR Wakayama Line and the Nankai Koya Line. In Nankai's route search, a limited express with no change takes 43 minutes from Namba (checked for a weekday and a Sunday in October 2026; a limited-express fee is extra). The city's migration-support site describes about 40 minutes to central Osaka.

People living here: 60,818people
Area: 130.55km²
Households: 24,028households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,121yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 62 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-01 に新設合併（高野口町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

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.

Hashimoto City in Japan34.315°N 135.605°E

to OsakaNankai limited express43min

Travel times follow 南海電鉄『ダイヤ検索』（kensaku.nankai.co.jp/pc/N1・N2。事業者公式の経路検索）を、2026-10-14（水）と 2026-10-18（日）の05:00〜23:30、30分おきの出発時刻で引き、『乗換 0回』の経路で難波『発』→橋本『着』（と橋本『発』→難波『着』）の所要を数えた。毎日運転の最速を採った。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Hashimoto City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.9km

Wakayama Prefecture: 九度山町, 高野町, かつらぎ町
Nara Prefecture: 五條市
Osaka Prefecture: 河内長野市

Hashimoto City isthis kind of town.

01The Odai Canal takes water from the Kinokawa River at the Odai weir of the Oda head works. A prefectural magazine writes that the surveying used the mizumoridai, said to have been devised by Ohata Saizo, and the city lists Odai among the works Saizo handled. It was registered as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2017
02The former Koyaguchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko building is a Showa 12 timber school and a national Important Cultural Property. The Jinbutsu Gazokyo mirror handed down at Suda Hachiman Shrine is a National Treasure, and the Tokyo National Museum is the repository of the original
03The name Hashimoto is said to come from the bridge Ogo Shonin built over the Kinokawa River. The camphor tree at Shinoda Shrine is a prefectural Natural Monument and Misasagiyama Tumulus a prefectural Historic Site. The city's tourism site also introduces Koyaguchi pile fabric

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hashimoto City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗