[2][3] Tondabayashi Jinaimachi is located at the center of the city, on a fluvial terrace at left bank of the Ishi river and the midstream.

[6] In the Sengoku period, Kosho-ji branch temple (興正寺別院) and Jinaimachi were granted privileges and immunities by authorities.

[8] Many people came from the surrounding villages and the town prospered with merchants offering lumber, cotton, rapeseed oil, and sake.

[8] After the Meiji Restoration, the town continued to prosper as the political and commercial center of southern Kawachi.

[9] From the latter Meiji period onward, the town headed gradually into a decline due to the opening of the railway, land reform, and motorization.