Ichinomiya City

Stepping stones laid across the garden.

Former Hayashi Garden, Okoshi

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tomida Ichirizuka

Mounds face each other across the Mino Road.Each one carries an enoki tree.

Photo by Vesupapa at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY 3.0)

Tomida Ichirizuka is a milestone mound on the Mino Road. It is a national Historic Site, designated in 1937. The designation commentary gives the east mound a diameter of about 35 shaku and a height of 6 shaku, says the west mound is almost the same, and says each mound has one enoki tree on top. The tourist association records that both mounds keep their original form and the trees have grown large.

National Historic Site (designated 1937)
East mound: diameter about 35 shaku, height 6 shaku
One enoki tree on each mound

02 ／ Okoshi ferry crossing site

For shoguns and Korean embassies,many boats were lined up to form a bridge.

The Okoshi ferry crossing site is where the Mino Road crossed the Kiso River; from upstream there were three landings: Jowatashi-ba, Miyagashi and Funahashi-gashi. The tourist association records that the boat bridge was laid with over 270 boats lined up. In the grounds of Kotohira Shrine stands a stone lantern tower, the night lantern of Jowatashi-ba, built around the Tenpo era (1830 to 1844).

Aichi Prefecture historic site (designated 1967)
Boat bridge: over 270 boats (tourist association)
Stone lantern built around the Tenpo era

03 ／ Iwato Festival

A head-host rite, horse offerings and floatswith detached puppets share one festival.

The Iwato Festival of Iwato Shrine in Imaise has three parts: a head-host rite, horse offerings, and floats operating karakuri puppets. The prefecture's designation report calls it rare for horse offerings and floats to coexist, and extremely rare in the prefecture for a head-host rite to accompany a float festival. The upper part of the Daisho float is confirmed as the old float of Inuyama's Nerimachi.

Aichi Prefecture Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated 2019)
Head-host rite, horse offerings, floats
Daisho float's upper part: an old Inuyama float made in 1772

Living here

From Nagoya, 11 minutes on the Limited Express Shirasagi.

about 380,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Nagoya Station to Owari-Ichinomiya Station, the JR Tokaido Line runs with no transfer. In the October 2026 timetable, the fastest daily train with no operating-day note is the 11-minute Limited Express Shirasagi or Hida (limited express ticket required). New Rapid, Special Rapid and Rapid trains take 10 minutes but carry a weekday-only or weekend-and-holiday-only note.

People living here: 380,073people
Area: 113.82km²
Households: 152,075households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,983yen
Healthcare: 15 hospitals ／ 257 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-04-01 に編入合併（尾西市・木曽川町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —66 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Ichinomiya City in Japan35.304°N 136.803°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Shirasagi11min

Travel times follow JRおでかけネット区間時刻表『東海道本線(浜松～米原) 下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/2248）の2026-10-19（月）・10-20（火）・10-24（土）・10-25（日）の4日分で、名古屋発→尾張一宮を数えた（名古屋は『発』の行、尾張一宮は時刻表が『発』の1行だけを載せる駅なのでその時刻を着として数えた）。名鉄は名古屋鉄道『路線別時刻表』（https://www.meitetsu.co.jp/train/timetable/ 。2026年3月14日改正）の名古屋本線（豊橋→名鉄名古屋→名鉄岐阜）の平日PDF（kai_20260314_NH_W1.pdf）で、名鉄名古屋発→名鉄一宮着を数えた (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Ichinomiya City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.2km

Aichi Prefecture: 稲沢市, 江南市, 岩倉市, 北名古屋市, 清須市
Gifu Prefecture: 羽島市, 笠松町, 各務原市, 岐南町

Ichinomiya City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Hayashi Garden is a pond garden made in the early Showa era at the home of the Hayashi family, who served as the waki-honjin (secondary inn for daimyo) at Okoshi post town on the Mino Road, and a nationally registered monument (registered 2019). Stepping stones are laid throughout the garden, with a pond at its centre
02Tomida Ichirizuka is a national Historic Site, with east and west mounds facing each other across the Mino Road. The Okoshi ferry crossing site is a prefectural historic site, where a boat bridge of lined-up boats was laid for shoguns and Korean embassies. The Okoshi ginkgo and the Okoshi yamagaki (wild persimmon) are prefectural natural monuments
03The Iwato Festival is a prefectural intangible folk cultural property where a head-host rite, horse offerings and floats with detached puppets come together. The Chokushimon gate of Myoko-ji Temple is a national Important Cultural Property, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs gives its date as Jotei 5 (1366)

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ichinomiya City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗