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A rare surviving example of a medieval moated city that was rebuilt in the early Edo period with a grid-patterned layout. While most of the moats were filled in during modern urban development, the district preserves its historical atmosphere through its orderly grid of streets lined with traditional Edo-period machiya and numerous historic temples and shrines.
Hirano , historically known as Hirano-gō, is a former city in Settsu Province, and is now a district in Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan. It was an autonomous city, in which the townspeople governed the city by council.
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かたなの博物館
Small sword museum attached to Masumian, with displays and sword polishing demonstrations.
綿とくらし博物館
Museum in the kura of the registered Ebisui House, showing tools used in yarn production.
平野郷夏祭り
The largest danjiri festival in Osaka, and among summer festivals it ranks second only to the Tenjin Festival in scale. Rooted in the Heian-period “Gion-e” tradition, which shares its origins with Kyoto’s Gion Festival, it attracts as many as 300,000 visitors from across Osaka to experience the raw energy of the danjiri floats and the sacred dignity of the mikoshi procession. Held July 11–14.
喜連環濠集落
Explore Osaka City's best-preserved moated settlement. This townscape retains the traditional form of a moated settlement dating back to the Middle Ages.