Iwakura City

A thatched farmhouse named for a torii.

Toriidate Minka farmhouse

Photo by KAMUI (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Nonbori-arai

Carp streamers are rinsed of their pastein the current of the Gojo River.

Nonbori-arai is the work of washing the paste out of carp streamers. The city says it starts each year around Daikan, the coldest time of the year, and Aichi Prefecture's scenic resources list says it runs on the Gojo River from Daikan until the cherry trees bloom. It was held on 19 February 2025, as the city reported on its website.

From Daikan until the cherry blossoms
Washing paste out of carp streamers
Held on 19 February 2025

02 ／ Daichi Site

A pot from a field named the pottery groupspread mainly across the northern Owari Plain.

In 1947 a pot from the early Middle Yayoi period was unearthed from a field in Daichi-cho, and the pottery group spread mainly across the northern Owari Plain came to be called Daichi-style pottery. A 1951 excavation found the remains of a pit dwelling, and the site became a prefectural historic site in March 1954. The historic park has a conjectural reconstruction of a pit dwelling.

1947: pot unearthed from a field
1951: pit dwelling remains excavated
March 1954: prefectural historic site

03 ／ Yamauchi Kazutoyo's birthplace monument

Yamauchi Kazutoyo is said to havebeen born in Iwakura.

Yamauchi Kazutoyo is said to have been born in Iwakura in July of Tenbun 14 (1545). The monument to his birthplace was set up in 1934 in the grounds of Shinmei-Ikuta Shrine, and is a city-designated historic site. The Iwakura Castle site is also city-designated; according to old documents, it had a double moat about 90 m east to west and 170 m north to south.

Said to be born July 1545
Birthplace monument set up in 1934
Double moat, about 90 m by 170 m

Living here

12 minutes from Meitetsu Nagoya on the rapid limited express.

about 50,000 people
30 min to a city centre

Iwakura Station is reached from Meitetsu Nagoya Station on the Meitetsu Inuyama Line with no change of trains. In the timetable revised on 14 March 2026, the fastest train that runs every day is the rapid limited express, at 12 minutes. The city's website, updated in 2016, gives about 11 minutes by limited express.

People living here: 47,983people
Area: 10.47km²
Households: 21,498households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,505yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 28 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Iwakura City in Japan35.279°N 136.871°E

to NagoyaMeitetsu rapid limited express12min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道『路線別時刻表犬山線・各務原線』の PDF（2026年3月14日改正。平日の下り『20260314_IY_W1.pdf』・上り『20260314_IY_W2.pdf』、土・休日の下り『20260314_IY_H1.pdf』・上り『20260314_IY_H2.pdf』。https://www.meitetsu.co.jp/train/timetable/index.html の『犬山線・各務原線』の4本）。岩倉市公式『岩倉市に行く』（更新 2016-07-30） (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Iwakura City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.9km

一宮市, 北名古屋市, 小牧市, 江南市

Iwakura City isthis kind of town.

01The Toriidate Minka is a city-designated tangible cultural property, a farmhouse main building re-erected in the historic park; it is named for its frame, in which two main pillars carry a beam with a tie bar crossing below, a shape that resembles a shrine torii. The city says it dates from the Edo period and keeps the form of a Muromachi-period farmhouse
02Nonbori-arai, the washing of paste out of carp streamers, takes place on the Gojo River from around Daikan until the cherry trees bloom. The Daichi Site became a prefectural historic site in 1954, and Daichi-style pottery takes its name from a pot unearthed from a field in 1947
03Yamauchi Kazutoyo is said to have been born in Iwakura, and his birthplace monument and the Iwakura Castle site are city-designated historic sites. Three festival floats, said to have been made in the Kan'ei era (1625-1629), are city-designated tangible cultural properties, along with the Suzuicho lion-head shrine and the kokera-kyo wooden sutra slats

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Iwakura City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗