Ibaraki, Osaka

Ibaraki is a suburban city in the Hokusetsu region of northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, on the northern bank of the Yodo River, and it forms part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. It is long and narrow from north to south, bordering Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture to the north, with a mountainous northern part and a main urban area on the Mishima Plain, which is part of the Osaka Plain, in the south. The area was within ancient Settsu Province and was the site of large Yayoi settlements and Kofun period burial mounds, including the Ota Chausuyama Kofun, which the Imperial Household Agency designates as the mausoleum of Emperor Keitai. This Osaka city is a different place from Ibaraki Prefecture, the prefecture in the Kanto region.