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23224 / ちたし

Aichi Prefecture

Chita City

Wind-driven sideways, it tows a net.

Fujii Maru, an utase boat

Photo by Bariston (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 / Asakura hashigo-jishi

On a 9 m tower,lions perform acrobatics.

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Photo by Psjk2106 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

At the autumn festival of Musan Shrine, each lion is played by two people, one in the head and one in the body, who perform acrobatics on the lower, middle and upper rungs of a ladder and on top of a tower. One foot wears a white tabi sock and the other a black one. It is said to have been offered since the Keicho era, and is designated a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

  • Tower 9 m high
  • Prefectural designation (1959)
  • First Sunday of October

02 / Hassha Shrine bell

A bell of Hoji 1 (1247) whose inscriptionnames a temple in Fuwa-gun.

Held by Hassha Shrine, this Important Cultural Property is a cast-bronze temple bell 104.5 cm tall, 63 cm across the mouth and 190 kg in weight. Its bosses are arranged simply in four tiers of four, and the city explains that it keeps the proportioning rules of the Kamakura period. The inscription on the ike-no-ma panel gives the year Hoji 1 (1247) and the title of an artisan of Todai-ji Temple.

  • Hoji 1 (1247)
  • 104.5 cm tall
  • 190 kg

03 / Momengura Chita

A storehouse on a stone base,its floor raised against damp.

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Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The former Takeuchi Torao-shoten cotton storehouse was built in the early Taisho era as a goods warehouse for a cotton wholesaler: a two-storey earthen-walled building with plastered exterior walls. It became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The prefecturally designated Chita cotton materials number 333 items: 184 spinning tools, 133 weaving tools and 16 wholesaler-related materials.

  • Early Taisho, two-storey earthen-walled
  • Registered Tangible Cultural Property, 2014
  • 333 prefecturally designated items

Living here

21 minutes from Nagoya by Meitetsu limited express.

  • about 80,000 people
  • 30 min to a city centre

By Meitetsu limited express, Asakura Station is 21 minutes at the fastest from Meitetsu-Nagoya Station (timetable; services that run every day). Asakura Station is on the Tokoname Line, and Musan Shrine is about a 4-minute walk away (city tourist association).

People living here
84,364people
19952020

−0.3% since 2015

78,202 → 84,364

Area
45.9km²

43.47km² of it habitable

2024

Households
34,025households

2.5 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
49,255yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
2 hospitals / 42 clinics

5.2 per 10,000 people

2023

Area45.9km²Habitable land43.47km² / 95%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—14 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Chita City in Japan34.997°N 136.865°E
TokyoChita City
Asakura Station
朝倉駅2023
  • to NagoyaMeitetsu limited express21min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道『乗換案内・時刻表検索』(trainbus.meitetsu.co.jp)の朝倉駅(常滑線)・名鉄名古屋駅の駅時刻表と各列車の路線時刻表(『2026年10月19日現在』) (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Chita City
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.8km

東海市, 阿久比町, 常滑市, 東浦町

Chita City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The utase boat Fujii Maru, a sail-drift fishing boat of the Aichi Prefecture type, was launched around 1955 at a fishing port in Isshiki Town, Hazu-gun, and fished by utase-ami net for nearly 20 years; it is a Chita City designated cultural property in the Chita City Museum of History and Folklore, which also holds the Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property Fishing Implements of the Chita Peninsula (1,045 items)
  2. 02The Asakura hashigo-jishi is a prefecturally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property, the bell of Hassha Shrine is an Important Cultural Property, and Momengura Chita in Okada became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The prefecturally designated Chita cotton materials number 333 items
  3. 03Okada has the Registered Tangible Cultural Property Chita Okada Post Office (a simple post office, Meiji 35; the Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as one of the oldest post office buildings in the prefecture) and the former Nakashichi Momen Honten. The stone base of the Hachiman Shrine main hall (city designation) is said to be laid in a castle-wall stacking style, the mamenashi at Inari Shrine in Kanazawa is a city Natural Monument, and the insect memorial rite (mushi-kuyo) held across 13 villages is a prefecturally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.