Anjo City

A pine's trunks crawl along the ground.

Eianji Unryu Pine

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Moat and earthwork

Part of a double moat and an earthen rampartremains within the temple grounds.

The Honshoji temple precinct, a national historic site, keeps part of a double moat and an earthen rampart built between the Sengoku period and the Edo period. The inner moat around the grounds is still a water moat, while the outer moat, about 320 m east to west and 310 m north to south, is mostly buried. Excavation showed that the lower part of the 16th-century moat had a steep slope of about 45 degrees.

National historic site, 2015
Precinct about 320 m by 310 m
Sengoku-period moat sloped about 45 degrees

02 ／ Human-face jar

A face with pupil-less eyesis incised on the jar in fine lines.

This jar from the Kametsuka site dates to the late Yayoi period and is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. On its body a human face is incised, its eyes, nose and mouth surrounded by layers of fine lines, and the ears appear to bear earrings. Such face-patterned pots are thought to express a belief in warding off evil spirits.

26.5 cm tall
Late Yayoi period
Important Cultural Property, 2016

03 ／ Ishikawa Kihei

The man who spent five years surveying the Meiji Yosui canalheld a license in wasan mathematics.

Ishikawa Kihei of Takatana Village studied Seki-school wasan and was granted a license in its methods. He helped Tsuzuki Yako, who planned the Meiji Yosui canal, by surveying for five years, finishing in 1826. His license and surveying tools are a city-designated historical material, held by Meijigawa Shrine.

Five years of surveying
Finished in 1826
City designation, 1968

Living here

Nagoya is 10 minutes by Kodama.

about 190,000 people
30 min to a city centre
Shinkansen stops here

Only Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama trains stop at Mikawa-Anjo Station in the city. It is 10 minutes from Nagoya Station, 140 minutes from Tokyo Station and 76 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station, without a change (timetable as of October 2026). The city says it takes about 25 minutes from Anjo Station to Nagoya Station on the JR Tokaido Line.

People living here: 187,990people
Area: 86.05km²
Households: 75,310households
Rent (average for rentals): 56,809yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 129 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —30 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Anjo City in Japan34.959°N 137.080°E

to TokyoShinkansen Kodama140min
to NagoyaShinkansen Kodama10min
to Shin-OsakaShinkansen Kodama76min

Travel times follow JR東海『アクセス検索』（https://railway.jr-central.co.jp/timetable/nr_doc/search.html の検索フォームを、利用列車を『こだま』だけにして三河安城→各駅で2026-10-21〔水〕・10-24〔土〕・10-25〔日〕の6〜23時を30分刻みで引いた）と、JR東海『各駅の時刻表』の三河安城駅〔東海道新幹線上り・下り〕（2026-10-20 の表） (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Anjo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.6km

岡崎市, 西尾市, 碧南市, 刈谷市, 知立市, 豊田市, 高浜市

Anjo City isthis kind of town.

01Eianji's Unryu Pine is a black pine designated a natural monument by Aichi Prefecture, whose main trunk splits in three directions from a height of 1.5 m, and its branches spread 17.9 m east to west and 24.7 m north to south
02The Honshoji precinct, a national historic site, keeps part of a double moat and an earthen rampart, and a human-face jar of the late Yayoi period from the Kametsuka site is an Important Cultural Property
03Ishikawa Kihei of Takatana Village's surveying tools are city-designated, and Shimoya Sakurai-cho's Bo-no-Te, a prefectural designation, and the city-designated Gakuhodo also stand among the city's cultural properties

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Anjo City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗