is one of the two towns in Toyono District. The town is located in the second northernmost area in

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, Japan. The town is surrounded by two municipal borders to Kyoto Prefecture and

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. The town covers the hilly and forest area in northern Osaka Prefecture. The West Block is at 200 to 300 meters high altitude, and the East and Southeast Blocks are at 400 to 600 meters high. As of October 2016, the town has an estimated

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of 19,519 and a

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of 570 persons per km². The total area is 34.37 km². The West Block has a few convenient access to the nearby city area within a 10-minute car drive. The Super highway provides an exit called "Minoh Todoromi" and the electrical railways provide 3 stations in the West Block. The railway runs to the northwest and to the south. It takes less than 1 hour to Osaka

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Transportation

Railways *Nose Railway **Myoken Line *** - Kofudai Station　(Osaka) -

Tokiwadai Station (Osaka) is a train station in Toyono, Toyono District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Lines *Nose Electric Railway **Myōken Line The , occasionally abbreviated as Nose Railway or , is a Japanese private railway company headquartered in Kawanishi, Hyogo ...

Myōkenguchi Station is a train station in Toyono, Toyono District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The station name translates loosely to: Entrance to Miyoken Mountain (Miyokenzan). The whole mountain is a spiritual complex that includes Miyoken no Mori where there ...

Buses *Hankyu Bus Highway *National Routes ** **

Blocks (City Block's Postal Zip Code)

West Block

* Yoshikawa 563-0101 * Tokiwadai 563-0102 * Higashi-Tokiwadai 563-0103 * Kofudai 563-0104 * Shinkofudai 563-0105 * Honotani 563-0100

East Block

* Yono 563-0219 * Nomaguchi 563-0218 * Maki 563-0211 * Kirihata 563-0213 * Terada 563-0212 * Kawashiri 563-0217 * Kishiro 563-0215 * Kibogaoka 563-0214

Southeast Block

* Takayama 563-0216

History

Toyono is the origin of a cultivar of

Japanese chestnut ''Castanea crenata'', the Japanese chestnut, also known as the Korean chestnut is a species of chestnut native to Japan and Korea. ''Castanea crenata'' exhibits resistance to ''Phytophthora cinnamomi'', the fungal pathogen that causes ink disease ...

called Ginyose that is resistant to the chestnut gall wasp - it is believed to have derived from a chance chestnut seedling found in Toyono in 1750.

References

External links

*
Toyono official website

Towns in Osaka Prefecture {{Osaka-geo-stub