Monument of Kitagumi Office

Administrative organizations

Original Text

Toyoko ＩＮＮ It is located a little west of Yodoyabashi Station South Store. Sokaisho was an organization that carries out self-government administration. I didn't know it well, but I could understand it because there was a proper explanation, but it wasn't that interesting personally.

it was a coordinating agency between the townspeople and the shogunate.

Original Text

It is an adjustment agency that transmitted touches from the Shogunate and collected taxes. Influential townspeople were selected as so-sen.

in the middle of the city.

Original Text

Osaka in the Edo period was divided into the Kitagumi from the south of Okawa to Honmachi-dori, the Minamigumi from Honmachi-dori to Dotonbori, and the Tenmangumi north of Okawa. Each group had a sokaisho that had a self-governing administration. The site of the Kitagumi sokaisho is now built with a "Toyoko Inn" hotel, and a stone monument stands beside the entrance. I never knew such a monument was built in the city of Minami, Osaka.

Stone monument in front of business hotel

Original Text

Near Yodoyabashi Station on the Osaka Subway. It is a stone monument in front of Toyoko Inn in Hirano Town. There is an explanation on the stone monument that describes the place where the government office was in the Edo period, but it wasn't very interesting.

Old administrative center

Original Text

There was a group that divided Osaka in 3 minutes during the Edo period, and it seems that the administrative center of Kitagumi, including this area, was here, but nowadays, there is only a stone monument in the business district. .. There was an explanation.