is a

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located in

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nar ...

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. , the city had an estimated

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of 108803 in 51632 households and a

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of 1200 persons per km². The total area of the city is .

Geography

Tondabayashi is located in the southeastern part of Osaka Prefecture.The northeastern part of the city is flat, and the Ishikawa River passes through the town. The southern part of the city is hilly, rising gradually to the

Kongō Range The is a mountain range on the borders of Nara and Osaka Prefectures on the island of Honshū in the southwest of central Japan. The range separates the Osaka Plain and the Nara Basin, and forms a natural place for the boundary between the pref ...

and

Katsuragi Mountains ''Katsuragi'' was a historical place name of Nara. It can also mean: * Mount Yamato Katsuragi, a mountain in Gose, Nara Prefecture, Japan. * Katsuragi City in Nara. * Katsuragi, a town in Wakayama. * The , in the late 19th century and early 20th ...

Neighboring municipalities

Osaka Prefecture *

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* Kawachinagano * Ōsakasayama *

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* Kanan * Chihayaakasaka

Climate

Tondabayashi has a

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(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Tondabayashi is 14.2 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1475 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.7 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,Sennan population statistics
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History

The area of the modern city of Tondabayashi was within ancient

Kawachi Province was a province of Japan in the eastern part of modern Osaka Prefecture. It originally held the southwestern area that was split off into Izumi Province. It was also known as . Geography The area was radically different in the past, with Kawac ...

. During the

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, it developed as a temple town centered on the Buddhist temple of Kosho-ji Betsu-in. The village of Tondabayashi was established within Ishikawa District with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1896 the area became part of Minamikawachi District, Osaka. Tondabayashi was promoted to town status on August 1, 1896 and to city status on April 1, 1950.

Government

Tondabayashi has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

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city council of 18 members. Tondabayashi collectively with the city of Ōsakasayama, and other municipalities of Minamikawachi District contributes two members to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Osaka 15th district of the

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of the

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Economy

The city is an agricultural region, with eggplants, strawberries, cucumbers as major crops. Traditionally, the area is known for its production of bamboo blinds.

Education

Tondabayashi has 16 public elementary schools and eight public middle schools operated by the city government and three public high schools operated by the Osaka Prefectural Department of Education. There are also one private elementary school, two private middle schools and two private high school. The prefecture also operated one special education school for the handicapped. Osaka Ohtani University is located in Tondabayashi and Aino University has a campus in the city. PL Gakuen Women's Junior College was active 1974 to 2009.

Transportation

Railway

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–

Kintetsu Nagano Line The is a railway line of Japanese private railway company Kintetsu Railway branching off Minami-Osaka Line at in southern suburbs of Osaka. The line connects cities of Habikino, Tondabayashi and Kawachi-Nagano in Osaka Prefecture, terminates ...

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Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...

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Koya Line The is a railway line in Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by the Nankai Electric Railway, a private railway operator. It connects Osaka and Koyasan, the capital of the Japanese Buddhist sect Shingon, via the ...

Highway

* *

Local attractions

* Tondabayashi Jinaimachi,

Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings is a Japanese category of historic preservation introduced by a 1975 amendment of the law which mandates the protection of groups of traditional buildings which, together with their environment, form a beautiful scene. They can be post towns, cast ...

* Ryusen-ji, National Place of Scenic Beauty *Takidani Fudomyoo-ji *Kosho-ji Betsu-in * Shindō temple ruins and Okameishi Kofun, National Historic Sites * PL Art of Fireworks Display

Sister city relations

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Pengzhou Pengzhou (), formerly Peng County or Pengxian, is a county-level city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu. There is an expressway that connects Pengzhou to Chengdu. It is ...

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, China

Noted people from Tondabayashi

Harumi Fujita is a Japanese composer best known for her work at the video game company Capcom is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It has created a number of multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful be ...

, composer *

Tadamitsu Kishimoto is a Japanese immunologist known for research on IgM and cytokines, most famously, interleukin 6. He did postdoctoral work under Kimishige Ishizaka, the discoverer of IgE at Johns Hopkins University. He is listed by the Institute for Scientifi ...

, scientist *

Chieko Naniwa Chieko Naniwa (浪花千栄子) (November 19, 1907 – December 22, 1973) was a Japanese actress who was active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She is best known for playing geisha in several films, such as Keiji Mizoguchi's '' A Geisha'', and ...

, actress

References

External links

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Tondabayashi City official website
Cities in Osaka Prefecture {{Osaka-geo-stub