Kanie Town

Sacred reeds snagged on a pine, and the bridge is said to take its name from it.

Miyoshi Bridge, Sunari Festival

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Main halls

Two main halls stand side by side,one a single bay, one three bays.

The main halls of Tomiyoshi Takehaya Shrine and Hakkensha, together called Sunari Shrine, are roofed with cypress bark. The one on the right is a single-bay nagare-zukuri; the one on the left is a three-bay nagare-mise-dana-zukuri. The town points to the curve of the front-sloping roofs and the frog-leg struts (kaerumata), which show the shift toward the Momoyama period.

Single-bay nagare-zukuri, cypress-bark roof
Three-bay nagare-mise-dana-zukuri, cypress-bark roof
Important Cultural Property since 1953

02 ／ Miyoshi-nagashi

Reeds carry the misfortunes onto the river,then rest on a rack and burn 75 days later.

A week before the morning festival, young men in white row down the Kanie River to its mouth and cut the reeds that become the sacred object. On the day after the morning festival, at dawn, the reeds bearing the misfortunes are floated off. In the past they were set adrift; now they are put on the river, laid on a rack at the shrine, and burned 75 days later.

Dawn after the morning festival: Miyoshi-nagashi
75 days later: the rack is taken down
2012: Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ House

A thatched hip-and-gable core roofis ringed by tiled lean-to roofs.

A private home, its main house dates to the Edo period. A hip-and-gable thatched upper roof is ringed on all four sides by lean-to roofs of tile, with an earthen floor to the east and a raised floor to the west. The structure is the traditional Owari type called yotsudate. With the tea house and front gate, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Main house: Edo period, altered in Meiji
Tea house: 1893
Front gate: 1908

Living here

Seven minutes from Kintetsu-Nagoya by express.

about 40,000 people
30 min to a city centre
Rural district town

From Kintetsu-Nagoya Station to Kintetsu-Kanie Station, the Kintetsu Nagoya Line express runs without a change. The fastest takes 7 minutes, and many daytime trains take 8; the town's own guide says about 10 minutes by express or semi-express (Kintetsu timetable, as of March 14, 2026).

People living here: 37,338people
Area: 11.09km²
Households: 16,104households
Rent (average for rentals): 60,360yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 26 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.

Kanie Town in Japan35.132°N 136.787°E

to NagoyaKintetsu Nagoya Line express7min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026年3月14日現在」）。近鉄名古屋駅（名古屋線・slCode=413-1）の平日・土休日の発車時刻表の各列車の停車駅表（T7）で、近鉄名古屋『発』→近鉄蟹江『着』を急行・準急・特急について数えた。逆向きは近鉄蟹江駅（slCode=413-8・d=1 名古屋方面）の発車時刻表の各列車の停車駅表で数えた。JR東海は『時刻表検索』のPDF（関西線蟹江駅名古屋方面・四日市方面。2026年3月版）を読んだ (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Kanie Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.7km

名古屋市, 愛西市, 津島市, 弥富市, あま市, 飛島村

Kanie Town isthis kind of town.

01Miyoshi Bridge is a hoisting bridge raised only when the boats of the Sunari Festival pass. It was built around 1945, and the town thinks it was made to rise for the festival
02The main halls of Tomiyoshi Takehaya Shrine and Hakkensha date to the Muromachi period and have been Important Cultural Properties since 1953. The festival of the two shrines, the Sunari Festival, consists of the float-boat event and Miyoshi-nagashi
03The Yamaguchi family house is a registered cultural property: an Edo-period main house, a tea house of 1893 and a front gate of 1908

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kanie Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗