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Kuchinawazaka

Temples and shrines where our ancestors quietly rest, stone monuments of writers who loved Osaka. Discover Osaka's history on the slopes of Kamimachi Plateau.

Shingonzaka, Genshojizaka, Kuchinawazaka, Aizenzaka, Shimizuzaka, Tenjinzaka, and Ouzaka in Tennoji Ward, Osaka City. The seven slopes of the temple are called ``Tennoji Nanazaka.'' Kuchinawa-zaka is a quiet stone-paved slope that runs from Taihei-ji Temple to Matsuyamachi-suji, and is said to be because the undulations of the road resemble a ``snake'' when viewed from the bottom of the slope. It is also said that this is the place where it started. At the top of the hill, there is a monument with a passage from author Sakunosuke Oda's ``The City of Trees'' engraved on it. Nearby Joshun-ji Temple contains the graves of Goryu Asada, an astronomical calendar scholar, Takeda Tanomura, a painter, and Juyasu Kitayama, a physician, at Taihei-ji Temple, both of whom were active during the Edo period. There is also a memorial tower to Basho in Umeku-in.

Basic information

Access
3 minutes walk from Shitennoji -mae Yuhigaoka Station on the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line
Address
2-chome Shimoderamachi, Tennoji-ku, Osaka - Yuhigaoka-cho
Telephone
06-6774-9910 (Osaka City Tennoji Ward Ward Office General Planning Officer)
Fax
06-6772-4904
URL
http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/tennoji/page/0000000504.html

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