Hekinan City

A tower stands on a police building.

Former Ohama Police Station

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Onoita kamigata

A tile maker's house keeps2,003 paper patterns for ogre tiles.

The Nagasaka Mokube family are said to have begun full-scale tile production in Tanao Village in 1788 (Tenmei 8) and made tiles until they closed in 1944 (Showa 19). Onoita kamigata are the paper patterns used to make ogre tiles; 2,003 of them, from the Edo period to the Showa era, are designated by the city as Tangible Folk Cultural Properties.

2,003 patterns
Designated by the city, 2012
1788 (Tenmei 8) to 1944 (Showa 19)

02 ／ Kumano Shrine archery ground

The archery hut stands at the north end,the target mound and Yatori-zuka at the south.

The archery ground of Kumano Shrine runs north to south through the precinct, with an archery hut at the north end and, at the south end, the Minamiyama mound where targets are set and the Yatori-zuka. The prefecture says it conveys well the structure of an Edo-period archery range. The two structures were prefecturally designated in 1955, and the 27 votive plaques commemorating gold-target hits (kinteki-chu) were designated by the city in 1988.

Two structures, prefectural designation, 1955
27 votive plaques for gold-target hits
Designated by the city, 1988

03 ／ Ohama Jinya

A hatamoto's jinya stood in Ohamafor over a hundred years.

In 1769 (Meiwa 6), the hatamoto Mizuno Tadatomo set up a jinya in Ohama Village to govern the lands in Mikawa newly granted to him. Later the Numazu Domain's Ohama branch office, it served as the Mizuno family's base in southern western Mikawa until the abolition of the domains in 1871 (Meiji 4). Part of the site is now Ohama Jinya Plaza.

Set up in 1769 (Meiwa 6)
Until 1871 (Meiji 4)
Ohama Jinya Plaza

Living here

For Nagoya, change trains at Chiryu.

about 70,000 people

The town has four stations on the Meitetsu Mikawa Line: Kitashinkawa, Shinkawamachi, Hekinan Chuo and Hekinan. The city's access map marks Hekinan Chuo Station as the terminus. Between Hekinan and Chiryu, the Mikawa Line runs local trains only, as a shuttle (timetable revised on March 14, 2026), so for Nagoya you change at Chiryu.

People living here: 72,458people
Area: 36.68km²
Households: 28,277households
Rent (average for rentals): 50,502yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 43 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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.

Shape

Surrounded by 3 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Hekinan City in Japan34.885°N 136.993°E

Territory of Hekinan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.9km

安城市, 西尾市, 高浜市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Hekinan City isthis kind of town.

01The former Ohama Police Station was rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1924 (Taisho 13) and had jurisdiction over six towns and villages: Ohama, Shinkawa, Tanao, Takahama, Asahi and Meiji. The city's board of education describes it as a Secession-style building that takes in the straight-lined geometric patterns popular in the Taisho era; its exterior restoration was completed in 2009
02The 2,003 onoita kamigata of the Nagasaka Mokube family are a Tangible Folk Cultural Property of the city; the archery hut and the Minamiyama and Yatori-zuka of Kumano Shrine are a prefectural Tangible Cultural Property (structures), and the 27 votive plaques for gold-target hits are a Tangible Folk Cultural Property of the city
03Ohama Jinya was set up in 1769 (Meiwa 6) by the hatamoto Mizuno Tadatomo, and part of its site is now a plaza. The city has four Important Cultural Properties: the colour-on-silk Shaka Triad of Rinsen-ji Temple was designated on August 27, 2024 (Reiwa 6), and the wooden seated Amida Nyorai (the former principal image of Bodaisan Jingu-ji Temple) of Kaitoku-ji Temple in 2003 (Heisei 15)

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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