[From Eeyan ! Osaka Shopping Street]"Nose Kaido" brings back nostalgic memories of the busy road

The Okamachi Shopping Street runs from Okamachi Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line to the city hall. Intersecting with the Okamachi Shopping Street is the Nose Kaido, a historic road that once connected Osaka with Okamachi, Ikeda, and Nose.

Located along the Nose Kaido is Harada shrine, with its impressive vermilion torii gate leading to the shrine grounds.

Harada shrine is a historic shrine that is said to have been founded in 684 AD during the reign of Emperor Tenmu. Within the shrine grounds are the main hall, which was rebuilt in 1652 AD (a nationally designated Important Cultural Property), and the main hall and large torii gate of the auxiliary shrine, which are city designated cultural properties. Many people have come to worship here since ancient times.

In the mid-Edo period, this area became a collection point for goods, and people gathered there transporting charcoal, firewood, agar, chestnuts, and sake.

The Nose Kaido also appears in the Kamigata Rakugo story "Buying Wild Boar in Ikeda." The story, about a man walking along the Nose Kaido from Osaka to Ikeda to buy wild boar meat, vividly depicts the flow of people, goods, and information.

There was also a town directly controlled by the Osaka Magistrate's Office, which is where the place name "Okamachi" came from. This Okamachi, together with Sakurazukamura and the surrounding villages, created Toyonakamura. The village eventually became Toyonakamachi, and developed into the current Toyonaka city.

Nose Kaido, which can be said to be the roots of Toyonaka City, is home to historical shops and tourist spots such as the Sakurazuka Monument and Doteka, a udon restaurant that has been in business since the Edo period.
Why not take a peek at a page of history on the road where people of the past passed through and interacted with each other?

Nose Kaido

Okamachi/Sakurazuka Shopping Street