Ibaraki, Osaka

For the prefecture, see Ibaraki Prefecture.

Ibaraki 茨木市
Special city
Ibaraki City Hall
Flag Emblem
Location of Ibaraki in Osaka Prefecture
Ibaraki Location in Japan
Coordinates: 34°48′59″N 135°34′7″E
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefecture	Osaka Prefecture
Government
• Mayor	Yoichi Fukuoka
Area
• Total	76.52 km2 (29.54 sq mi)
Population  (28 February 2017)
• Total	280,562
• Density	3,700/km2 (9,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (JST)
City hall address	3-8-13 Ekimae, Ibaraki-shi, Ōsaka-fu 567-8505
Website	www.city.ibaraki.osaka.jp
Symbols
Flower	Rose
Tree	Oak

Ibaraki (茨木市, Ibaraki-shi) is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is a suburban city of Osaka City and a part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Ibaraki translates to "wild trees" or "thorny trees". The city was incorporated on 1 January 1948.

As of February 2017, the city has an estimated population of 280,562 and a population density of 3,580 persons per km². The total area is 76.52 km².

Transportation

Railways

• West Japan Railway Company
  • JR Kyoto Line: Ibaraki Station–JR-Sōjiji Station
• Hankyu Railway
  • Hankyu Kyoto Line: Minami-Ibaraki Station–Ibaraki-shi Station–Sōjiji Station
• Osaka Monorail
  • Main Line: Unobe Station–Minami-Ibaraki Station–Sawaragi Station
  • Saito Line Handai-byōin-mae Station–Toyokawa Station–Saito-nishi Station

Highways

• Meishin Expressway
• National Route 171

Education

Prefectural public senior high schools:

• Osaka Ibaraki High School (茨木高等学校)
• Kasugaoka High School (春日丘高等学校)
• Osaka Ibaraki Nishi High School (茨木西高等学校)
• Hokusetsu Tsubasa High School (北摂つばさ高等学校)
• Ibaraki Engineering High School (茨木工科高等学校)
• Osaka Prefectural Fukui Senior High School (福井高等学校)

Private junior and senior high schools:

• Otemon Junior & Senior High School (追手門学院中学校・高等学校)
• Kansai Ohkura Junior and Senior High School (関西大倉中学校・高等学校)
• Waseda Setsuryo Junior High School-High School (早稲田摂陵中学校・高等学校)
• Korea International School, a Korean international junior and senior high school, is in Ibaraki.

Private senior high schools:

• Koyodai High School (向陽台高等学校)
• Aino High School (藍野高等学校)

Sister and friendship cities

• Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States – Sister city agreement concluded in 1980
• Anqing, Anhui, China – Friendship city agreement concluded in 1985
• Shōdoshima, Kagawa, Japan – Sister city agreement concluded in 1988 (with former Uchinomi town)
• Taketa, Ōita, Japan – History cultural sister city agreement concluded in 2013

Notable people from Ibaraki, Osaka

• Ryota Hama, Japanese professional wrestler and retired sumo wrestler
• Satoshi Ishii, Japanese-Croatian judoka and mixed martial artist.
• Kusunoki Masashige, Japanese samurai of the Kamakura period
• Taiga Matsuo, professional Japanese baseball player
• Yasumichi Morita, interior designer
• Katagiri Katsumoto, Japanese warlord daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period.
• Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
• Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, actor and lyricist (Kanjani Eight)
• Yu Shimasaki, former Japanese football player
• Chisato Moritaka, Japanese pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• Tatsuo Kamon, Japanese singer-songwriter
• Takaharu Nishino, Japanese football player
• Mizuki Ichimaru, Japanese football player
• Manabu Ikeda, former Japanese football player
• Sayaka Yamamoto, Japanese singer and songwriter (NMB48 and AKB48)
• Atsushi Kimura, former Japanese football player
• Shinichi Terada, Japanese football player
• Takuto Hayashi, Japanese football player
• Kenji Matsuda, Japanese actor
• Teruo Sugihara, Japanese professional golfer
• Yuta Nakatsuka, Japanese Dancer and actor (Generations from Exile Tribe)

External links

Media related to Ibaraki, Osaka at Wikimedia Commons

• Ibaraki city official website (in Japanese)