Kariya City

A transmitter for 17,200 m radio waves.

Yosami Transmitting Station

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kakitsubata

Once common on the Mikawa plain, a national record says,a kakitsubata colony remains in the pond.

The kakitsubata (rabbitear iris) colony at Kozutsumi Nishiike pond was designated a National Natural Monument in 1938. The description written at designation says a colony once common on the Mikawa plain survives in small part. The pond was first an irrigation pond for rice fields, and in 1976 volunteers founded a society to protect the irises.

National Natural Monument, 1938
Peak bloom in mid-May
Protection society founded 1976

02 ／ Jin'ya gate

After the domains were abolished, Hajodo villagebought the main gate that was no longer needed.

In a 1792 swap of villages, Shigehara and others came under the Fukushima domain or the shogunate, and the Fukushima domain set up a jin'ya, a local government office, in Shigehara. After the domains were abolished in 1871, Hajodo village bought its main gate, and in 1874 it was moved to Gangyo-ji Temple. The pillars are pine and the doors zelkova.

Moved in 1874
Pine pillars, zelkova doors
City-designated, 1958

03 ／ Local history museum

The entrance porch has buttresses,and the wing gables follow wooden schools.

The Kariya City Museum of Local History is the former Kijo Elementary School main building, a two-story reinforced-concrete structure built in 1928. The state calls it a good example of early reinforced-concrete architecture in a provincial city; it was designed by a former prefectural technician who opened an architect's office in Kariya. It became a museum in 1980 and a nationally registered cultural property in 1999.

Built in 1928
Designed by a former prefectural technician
National registration, 1999

Living here

From Nagoya, 19 minutes on the JR Tokaido Line.

about 150,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Nagoya Station, Kariya Station is 19 minutes on the JR Tokaido Line. For getting to City Hall, the city suggests getting off at Kariya Station on the JR Tokaido Main Line, or changing at Chiryu Station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line to the Meitetsu Mikawa Line, getting off at Kariya Station and walking 10 minutes.

People living here: 153,834people
Area: 50.39km²
Households: 67,708households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,112yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 97 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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.

Kariya City in Japan34.989°N 137.002°E

to NagoyaJR Tōkaidō Main Line19min

Travel times follow JRおでかけネット区間時刻表『東海道本線(米原～浜松) 上り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/2244）の2026-10-20（火）・10-24（土）・10-25（日）の3日分で、名古屋駅『発』→刈谷『発』を数えた（刈谷は時刻表に『発』の1行だけで着は読めず、発→発。深夜の日またぎ列車は除く）。名古屋の都心の駅＝名古屋駅発。 (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities.

Territory of Kariya City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.5km

知立市, 安城市, 豊明市, 豊田市, 東浦町, 大府市, みよし市, 高浜市, 東郷町

Kariya City isthis kind of town.

01The Yosami Transmitting Station's equipment is of German design: a generator made a high-frequency current, its frequency was tripled, and it was sent from the antenna as radio waves 17,200 m in wavelength. One line of it is kept in the memorial museum and, with related materials, was registered by Aichi Prefecture in 2026
02The kakitsubata colony at Kozutsumi Nishiike is a National Natural Monument and blooms in mid-May. The main gate of the Shigehara jin'ya, bought by Hajodo village after the domains were abolished, remains as the gate of Gangyo-ji Temple
03Five Jomon-period sites in western Kariya are prefectural historic sites, and the late-period pottery of the Motokariya shell mound is called Motokariya-type pottery. The Museum of Local History, a nationally registered building, is the former Kijo Elementary School main building

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kariya City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗