How People Lived in the Olden Days
Tondabayashi City is situated in the southeastern part of Osaka Prefecture, about 25 minutes by train from central Osaka. With a rich natural environment and various historic sites, Tondabayashi is proud to be an excellent place to raise children. In the Jinai-machi area, the old townscape still remains. Strolling on streets lined with 450-year-old buildings, you will feel as if you have traveled back in time. Many tourists visit the area to learn about how people lived in the olden days.
Jinaimachi town in Tondabayashi city, a historic preservation district and heritage site remains as it were, an outdoors museum of old wooden cultural properties. Viewing the contrast of beautiful white mortar and cedar panels on the walls, wooden slatted lattices in a row, a miniature second story, black roof tiles with decorative designs and an overtopped small roof for smoke ventilation and as such, there are a lot of tourists' attractions here in the traditional village and streetscapes of old merchants' shop cum town houses with heavy earthen-walled warehouses as well as Buddhist temples of the period of Edo era (from the 17th century through the middle of 19th century). As the times of each building construction differ from each other, so many buildings have shown so many varieties of architectural structures and unique designs.
Jinaimachi town in Tondabayashi city, a historic preservation district and heritage site remains as it were, an outdoors museum of old wooden cultural properties. Viewing the contrast of beautiful white mortar and cedar panels on the walls, wooden slatted lattices in a row, a miniature second story, black roof tiles with decorative designs and an overtopped small roof for smoke ventilation and as such, there are a lot of tourists' attractions here in the traditional village and streetscapes of old merchants' shop cum town houses with heavy earthen-walled warehouses as well as Buddhist temples of the period of Edo era (from the 17th century through the middle of 19th century). As the times of each building construction differ from each other, so many buildings have shown so many varieties of architectural structures and unique designs.
