Iwade City

Members went out to enter the chamber.

Former Wakayama Assembly Hall

Photo by アラツク (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Pagoda

Ink inscriptions found in a dismantling repairrevealed when Negoroji's Daito was built.

The tahoto pagoda of Negoroji Temple, the Daito, is a National Treasure. The Agency for Cultural Affairs' explanation says that ink inscriptions found in the dismantling repair of 1939 showed that gathering of materials began in Bunmei 12 (1480), the central pillar was raised in Meio 5 (1496), the roof was tiled and the finial installed in Eisho 12 (1515), and the pagoda was completed in Tenbun 16 (1547).

Work began in Bunmei 12 (1480)
Completed in Tenbun 16 (1547)
National Treasure, 1952

02 ／ Residence

Home of a daishoya family for 20 places,its main house dates to Hoei 3.

The city says the Masuda family served as daishoya, senior village headmen, over 20 surrounding places in the Edo period. The main house was built in Hoei 3 (1706), a hip-and-gable building with a full tile roof. The main house and the front gate became Important Cultural Properties in 1969, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs calls the house valuable as a daishoya residence of known date.

Main house built in Hoei 3 (1706)
Important Cultural Property, 1969
Daishoya of 20 surrounding places

03 ／ Negoro lacquer

Red lacquerware is also called Negoro-nuri,from a tradition that Negoroji's ware was red.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs' explanation says that medieval Negoroji is said to have made utensils, mainly lacquerware, and that from a tradition that these were mostly red lacquer, red-lacquered ware came to be called Negoro-nuri. It adds that the reality at Negoroji is not well known. The city says the red altar of Shotendo dates from the Muromachi period, and the Iwade City Museum of Folklore runs Negoro-nuri classes.

A common name for red-lacquered ware
Shotendo altar dates from the Muromachi period
Negoro-nuri classes at the folk museum

Living here

Two Wakayama Line stations; change at Wakayama for Osaka.

about 50,000 people

The town's stations are Iwade and Funato on the JR Wakayama Line. The city (updated 18 March 2026) directs visitors from Tennoji to take the Hanwa Line to Wakayama Station, change to the Wakayama Line, and get off at Iwade Station. In the JR timetable site (14 and 17 October 2026) no train runs through between the Wakayama Line and the Hanwa or Kinokuni lines.

People living here: 53,967people
Area: 38.51km²
Households: 21,999households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,206yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 48 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Iwade City in Japan34.256°N 135.311°E

Territory of Iwade City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.9km

Wakayama Prefecture: 和歌山市, 紀の川市
Osaka Prefecture: 泉南市, 阪南市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Iwade City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Wakayama Prefectural Assembly Hall was built in 1898 at Ichibancho, Wakayama City. Members passed from the main building to the chamber through an open dirt-floored corridor, going outside to enter, and the hall became an Important Cultural Property in 2017
02The hall where Natsume Soseki lectured in 1911 was moved into the grounds of Negoroji Temple in 1962 and named Ichijokaku. Its chamber had been turned around and the annex rooms lost; a conservation project in fiscal 2012-2015 restored it to its original form
03The Daito of Negoroji Temple is a National Treasure and its grounds are a national Historic Site. The city also has the Important Cultural Property Masuda residence and the national Historic Site Nishi-Kokubu Pagoda Ruins. Negoro-nuri, the name for red-lacquered ware, is said to come from the utensils of medieval Negoroji

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iwade City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗