Higashiura Town

A Jomon shell mound lies in a shrine.

Irimi Shell Mound, Irimi pottery

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Two-storied gate

A gate with a gallery around its upper floorwas built in the 2nd year of Tenna (1682).

The Kenkon-in Temple main gate is a two-storied gate, three bays wide with one entrance, built in the 2nd year of Tenna (1682). It has a hip-and-gable roof of copper tiles and a gallery around the upper floor, and is unified in the Zen style. West of the grounds are the graves of four generations of the Mizuno family, including the pagoda of Mizuno Tadamasa.

Built in 1682
Three bays, one entrance, two stories
Town-designated cultural property

02 ／ Ikuji's three whites

Salt, white sugar and cotton cloth:the tourist association's "three whites of Ikuji."

The tourist association presents salt, white sugar and cotton cloth as the "three whites of Ikuji." The "Ikuji salt" in the Engishiki is thought to be salt from today's Ikuji, where Ikuji Shrine enshrines a deity of salt-making. The method for white sugar was handed down in 1735, and from 1757 it was presented to the shogun's family.

1735: sugar method handed down
1757: presented to the shogun's family
Ikuji salt in the Engishiki

03 ／ Kirishitan lantern

A stone lantern with a cross cut through it,its shaft and cap of Amagi stone.

The stone lantern in the rear garden of Okkyo-ji Temple is called the Kirishitan lantern and is a town-designated cultural property. Its shaft and cap are Amagi stone, and the cap is a gently spreading octagon topped with a finial. A cross pattern is cut through the cylinder, and the inside is hollowed out wide as the light chamber.

Shaft and cap of Amagi stone
Cross pattern on the cylinder
Town-designated cultural property

Living here

26 minutes from Nagoya on the JR Rapid running through to the Taketoyo Line.

about 50,000 people
30 min to a city centre
Rural district town

Ogawa Station is reached from Nagoya Station with no change of trains, on a Rapid that runs through onto the Taketoyo Line. In JR Central's October 2026 schedule, the fastest through train that runs every day takes 24 minutes on weekdays and 26 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays. The town says the town office is about 12 minutes on foot from Ogawa Station.

People living here: 49,596people
Area: 31.14km²
Households: 19,406households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,481yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 27 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

Higashiura Town in Japan34.977°N 136.966°E

to NagoyaJR Taketoyo Line26min

Travel times follow JR東海『アクセス検索』（railway.jr-central.co.jp/cgi-bin/timetable/tokainr.cgi。名古屋駅→緒川駅の**着時刻**）。2026年10月21日（水）・10月24日（土）・10月25日（日）の5時台〜23時台を、出発1分後から順に引いて全便を数えた (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Higashiura Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.9km

大府市, 刈谷市, 阿久比町, 東海市, 知多市, 半田市, 高浜市

Higashiura Town isthis kind of town.

01Irimi Shell Mound lies in the grounds of Irimi Shrine, a shell mound from the late part of the early Jomon period (about 7,000 years ago), designated a national historic site on 14 November 1953. The town says pottery with ridges below the rim, cut with notches, is called Irimi-style pottery and is the standard pottery for the end of the early Jomon period in the Tokai region
02Kenkon-in Temple is the Mizuno family's family temple; its gate is a town-designated two-storied gate built in 1682, and the graves of four generations of the Mizuno family stand in the west of the grounds. The town also introduces the Ogawa Castle site as the place where Odai no Kata, the mother of Tokugawa Ieyasu, was born
03The tourist association presents salt, white sugar and cotton cloth as the "three whites of Ikuji." In the rear garden of Okkyo-ji Temple stands a town-designated Kirishitan lantern, with a shaft and cap of Amagi stone and a cross pattern cut through the cylinder

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

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