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welcome to jinaimachi town, tondabayashi, a historic district, japan

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan,Travelogues by Author - Series Vol. 29 Jinaimachi Guided Sightseeing Monitor Tour】
Jinaimachi Visitor Center	Koushouji Betsuin Buddhist temple
Saturday, November 22, 2014 Autumn where the foliage is as beautiful as brocade. On the first day of three consecutive holidays including Labor Thanksgiving Day, it was the day of the all clear refreshing clear autumn sky from morning. Jinaimachi monitor tour was planned and held as a program of the autumn sightseeing campaign called "Tondabayashi comfortable meal comfortable Jinaimachi" which was held, following last year, for the period from Saturday, November 8, 2014 to Sunday, November 30 sponsored by the agriculture, meal and sightseeing association and co-sponsored by Tondabayashi Municipality Board of Education. The participants who had applied beforehand through JTB West Japan were 34 people more than the planned number of persons. I took a local guide of the day. As Tondabayashi Jinaimachi had been introduced through NHK TV program in the Kansai day on Friday, November 14, and by the article of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper on Saturday, November 8, some participants watched the program and the article.
Jyounomonsuji	Koushouji Betsuin Buddhist temple
A monitor tour began after a meeting in front of the south exit of Tondabayashi Station on Kintetsu Nagano Line at 10:30 a.m. At first the toup group took a 7-minute walk from the station to Jinaimachi Visitor center and I had lectured about the history and the townscape in the meeting room on the second floor. After the lecture, the guided town-watching tour started in two groups. Walking along the main street, Jyounomonsuji, where merchants’ residences of the Edo era remain in a line, they visited Koushouji Betsuin Buddhist temple, an important cultural property of the country, which played a key role of the development of the Tondabayashi Jinaimachi and entered the main hall building, seeing the painting on partitions.   In the afternoon, as for the attractions of the lunch, they enjoyed the Jinaimachi Gozen which was reproduced in reference to the menu of the merchant's family meals in the Edo era written down in the diary of the old Nakamura family in Jinaimachi, in the former residence of the Tanaka family which was designated as a registered cultural assets of the country. For this monitor tour, the Jinaimachi Gozen was specially cooked and arranged, the detailed menu of which is the following. Pumpkin with black rind boiled in soy sauce with sugar,  eggplant boiled in country style, carrot boiled with plum, gumbo, round taro, wheat gluten with red maple leaf,shredded Japanese raddish, turnip dressed with minced chicken and a thick starchy sauce, soft-boiled egg, persimmon and mushroom dressed with chili vinegar,  Kyoko-style grilled Spanish mackerel, sweet-boiled chestnut, flavored goma-dofu (crushed sesami seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu) , various Japanese pickled vegetables, tempura of prawn and green pepper, peach jelly and strawberry, ancient rice, claer broth soup
The Jinaimachi Gozen	The Jinaimachi Gozen - The former residence of the Tanaka family
After the lunch, the tour group went to the Japanese sake tasting at the old sake storehouse remaining in Jinaimachi historic district. The storehouse used to be a sake brewery of Banri-no-Haru brand, the residence of the Ishida family, where sake brewery had been long run until around 1980. Though the local brand brewery of Banri-no-Haru, to our regret, has been already discontinued, the Japanese sake tasting event was held, gathering various local brands of Japanese sake from Kansai region selected by a Japanese sake sommelier. On the day, as many as 15 kinds of sake from 8 sake breweries in Kansai region were lined-up.  Amano sake (Saijo joint-stock company, Kawachi-Nagano city, Osaka pref.), Katano sakura  (Yamano sake brewery, Katano city, Osaka pref.), Akishika (Akishika sake brewery, Nose-cho, Osaka pref.), Takeizumi (Tajima unlimited partnership company, Tajima, Santou-cho, Asaki city, Hyogo pref.), Yamato Kozuchi  (Izawa head family unlimited partnership company, Inami-cho, Kako-gun, Hyogo pref. ), Kimoto-no-Dobu Suiryu (Kubo head family sake brewery, Uda-cho, Oo-Uda-gun, Nara pref.), Kyo-no-Haru (Mukai sake brewery, Ine-cho, Yosa-gun, Kyoto pref.) , Sichi-hon-yari (Tomita sake brewery, Kinomoto-cho, Nagahama city, Shiga pref.)
sake storehouse - the former Banri-no-Haru sake brewery	sake storehouse - the former Banri-no-Haru sake brewery (sake tasting)
variety of Japanese sake brands for tasting	variety of Japanese sake brands for tasting
	The emblem design expresses "the atemage-no-tsuji, the crossroads at the non-right angles" in a motif, which is a townscape scene in Tondabayashi Jinaimachi.  The touch such as the handwriting images expresses "warmth", and dark purple color to give noble and sincere image expresses the dignity of Jinaimachi. The logotype made with individual, refined style of handwriting adopts the motif of "the atemage-no-tsuji" from the Chinese character “ta or field" and raises an impression more. In this logo mark, various people, cultures and words are expected to intersect in Jinaimachi. I quoted the above from "the logo manual".
In the sake brewery where a former fermentation tank remains as relics, various dishes with the colorful local vegetables from Minami-Kawachi region were served. In addition, the common logo mark to put on the products sold in the shops of Tondabayashi Jinaimachi has been introduced for the first time on this occasion. The design work of the logo mark was done by Mr. Hiroki Akazaki living in Tondabayashi city. The monitor tour was disassembled at the sake tasting place of the former Banri-no-Haru sake brewery. I thank every tour participant for paying a visit to Tondabayashi Jinaimachi. If you have an opportunity, please visit again. As for people concerned who made an effort to plan this monitor tour and sake tasting, I also give thanks. Written on November 29, 2014 by Author in Yokohama
Snapshots in Jinaimachi
Chinese tea salon - Linchabou（Honmachi　shopping street）	Chinese tea salon - Linchabou（Honmachi　shopping street）
residence of the (northwest) Okutani family	residence of the (northwest) Okutani family
residence of the (northwest) Okutani family	residence of the (northwest) Okutani family
residence of ther Sato family（Koubai-kura）	Cafe・Heizo（Koubai-kura）
participants of the monitor tour - Cafe・Heizo（Koubai-kura）	residence of ther Sato family（Koubai-kura）
Jinaimachi local sweets "Koitabashi" made by a local confectionary, Kashiwaya-Katsuragi-do	"Jinaimachi Cookies" made by a local confectionary, Kashiwaya-Katsuragi-do

Information

Jinaimachi in Tondabayashi（Jyounomon-suji street）

Photo: provided by Tondabayashi Municipality, unauthorized copying and replication are strictly prohibited.

Location
Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi city, a national historic preservation district and heritage site of Japan, which is located in the south-eastern part of Osaka prefecture, the western part of Japan

Directions to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi
It is a 10-minute walk from the Tondabayashi Staion or the Tondabayashi Nishiguchi Station of Kintetsu Nagano line.

From Kansai International Airport
Airport Limousine Bus service available bound for Kawachi Nagano Station. (60 minutes) Please take Kintetsu railways from Kawachi Nagano to Tondabayashi.(15 minutes)

From Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport)
Airport Limousine Bus service available bound for Abenobashi Station. (30 minutes) Please take Kintetsu railways from Abenobashi terminal to Tondabayashi.(30 munites)

From JR Shinkasen Shin-Osaka station or
Osaka (Umeda) station
Please take Subway Midousuji line from Shin-Osaka station or Osaka (Umeda) station to Tennoji Station. (20~30 minutes) Please change trains at Tennoji and take Kintetsu railways from Abenobashi terminal to Tondabayashi. (30 minutes)

Koushouji Betsuin Temple (Tondabayashi Gobo)

Koushouji Betsuin Temple is a temple of Jodo Shinshu School (Ikkoushuu School), which became the center of the development and establishment of Jinaimachi town in Tondabayashi . It has been popular as Mr. Gobo (Tondabayashi Gobo) among the local residents.

During the Ouei period (1394-1412years) , theincipient temple was opened in Ebitani village. In 1560, Shoushuu Shonin, the 16th head priest of Koushouji Sect. in Kyoto dismantled the building and reconstructedit to the present location, adjacent to Ebitani village.

The temple gate looks toward the east and the Jyounomon-suji street. Those buildings such as the bell tower, the drum tower, the main hall, the reception hall and priest's quarters are set up and arranged.

The main gate has refined style and it became clear in a recent investigation that the gate was further relocated from Koushouji temple in Kyoto, which was originally said to be dismantled and reconstructed from one of the gates at Fushimi castle in Kyoto.

Koushouji Betsuin Temple was designated as an important cultural property of the country in 2014.

The site-seeing map available in English
Please stop by to the Tourist Information Cetnter or Jinaimachi Visitor Center. You can get the visitor map.

Restrooms
Available at Jinaimachi Visitor Center (Jinaimachi Kouryuukan), Jinaimachi Center and Jinaimachi Tenbou Hiroba (Viewing Terrace)


Visitor Center
(Jinaimachi Kouryuukan,
Town Community Center)

Address
9-29, Tondabayashi-cho, Tondabayashi city, Osaka, 584-0033, Japan
TEL.+81-(0)721-26-0110
FAX.+81-(0)721-26-0110
open 10a.m. until 5 p.m.
closed on Monday

Visitor Parking
Road width is very narrow in Jinaimachi town. If traveling by car, please use Tondabayashi Municipal east parking newly opened in February 2014 (Toll parking).

You can park the minibus for groups and passenger cars for general use. Only one parking lot available for minibus, you must book it in advance with Tondabayashi City Hall. A 15-minute walk to the Jinaimachi Visitor Center and 5 minute walk up to the former Sugiyama family house, an important national cultural property.

You will note that the large tourist bus for groups is requested to be parked at the Tondabayashi City Hall No. 2 parking lot alongside the old Route 170  (It must be booked in advance to City Hall). 20-minute walk to the Jinaimachi Visitor Center and 10 minute walk up to the former Sugiyama family house, an important national cultural property. Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

Shops & restaurants

Town Planning

Jyounomonsuji street "the 100 selections of roads in Japan"

Koushouji Betsuin Buddhist Temple

Former Sugiyama residence

Architecture Vol. 1/2

Architecture Vol. 2/2

Historic Buildings

Jinaimachi cookies

New Year Hot Pot Festival

Spring Hina Meguri Dolls Festival

Summer Street Lantern Festival

Autumn Nochino Hina Matsuri Doll Festival

Art Gallery

B&B (Tomari-Ya Guetshouse)

Travelogues by Author

Link

Ichiriyama-cho street

Tomiyama-cho street

Kita-Kaisho-cho street

Minami-Kaisho-cho street

Sakaimachi-cho street

Gobo-cho street

Hayashi-cho street