Tondabayashi Jinaimachi 富田林寺内町
The only protected district in the whole of Osaka: 12.9 hectares, and people still live there.
Autonomous religious town founded in 1560 around the betsuin of Kōshō-ji, when the sixteenth abbot, Shōshu, obtained the land for it. On 31 October 1997 it was selected as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings (the only one in the whole of Osaka Prefecture), covering 12.9 hectares, and in August 2018 the selection was extended. It is classified as both a temple town and a rural market town.
Osaka
Tondabayashi, Tondabayashi-Nishiguchi