Takamiya temple ruins
The , is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka period Buddhist temple located in the Takamiya neighborhood of the city of Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan. The ruined temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1980. Overview The Takamiya temple ruins are located on at the southern end of the Kori hill, which extends southwest from the Ikoma Mountains. The existence of an ancient temple ruin within the precincts of the Takamiya Omori Goso Jinja has been known since at least the Edo period, with a cornerstone of the vanished temple's West Pagoda located between the shrine's Haiden and Honden, and the foundations of the East Pagoda to the west, and what seemed to have been the foundations of the Kondō to the north. In 1953, the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education conducted a confirmation survey of the remains of the East Pagoda, and unearthed a large quantity of roof tiles that date to the latter half of the 7th century. At the end of 1979, a plan to create a residential development just north of the shrine led to a more extensive survey to confirm the range of the entire temple ruins in order to