I took the local JR train to Ibaraki Station in Osaka. Ibaraki Shrine is about 15 minutes walk from the station. This information is from the internet:
This shrine enshrines Susanoo-no-Mikoto as its main deity, and the inner shrine is said to have been enshrined over 1,200 years ago. It has long been revered as the guardian deity of Ibaraki Village and Nakajo Village, and is famous for its ring-passing ritual in June and the summer festival portable shrine procession in July. In addition, at the back of the shrine grounds, there are remains of a well called Kuroi no Shimizu, which once provided an abundance of water, and it is said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi used this water during tea ceremonies.
A short distance from the shrine is the location of what used to be Ibaraki Castle. All that is left is the gate, with a school standing on the site where the castle used to be
This information below is from J-Castle.
The sign at the Karamete Gate in Ibaraki Shrine says this castle was built from 1334-1336 by Kusunoki Masashige but the early history of the castle is not well known. The earliest historical record for Ibaraki Castle appears in 1467 in a mention of the Onin War. At this time the Ibaraki clan were lords of the area. When Nobunaga took control of the region, the Ibaraki joined forces with Nobunaga. In 1571 at the Battle of Shiraikawara, the Ibaraki clan was completely defeated by Araki Murashige and the castle came under his control. From 1577, Nakagawa Kiyohide became lord of the castle under Araki and renovated the castle making it larger. Kiyohide died at the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583 and his son became lord of the castle until 1586 when he became the new lord of Miki Castle. Ibaraki Castle came under direct control of Hideyoshi as a government office until after the Battle of Sekigahara when Katagiri Matsumoto became the new castle lord. The castle was dismantled under the one castle per province edict in 1616, leaving only Takatsuki Castle in the Settsu Province.
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