Kasugai City

Coping stones top the brick portal.

Old Chuo Line Tamano No.4 Tunnel

Photo by KKPCW (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tumulus and kilns

Futagoyama Tumulus's haniwa are knownto have been fired about 8 km north.

Futagoyama Tumulus, a national historic site, is a keyhole-shaped mound 94 m long, thought to date to the early 6th century. X-ray fluorescence analysis showed that the haniwa and Sue ware from the ditch outside its moat were fired at the Shimohara ancient kiln site. Eleven kilns were found and five are preserved on site. The city calls it a rare case where both the production site and the supply site are known.

94 m keyhole-shaped mound
11 kilns found, 5 preserved on site
National historic site, 1936

02 ／ Garden

Three great rocks on the steep hill behindwere taken into the garden.

The Utsutsu Shrine garden, a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty, is a stroll-style garden that works the hillside behind the shrine into its design. The central Tengu-iwa rock serves as a yogo stone, where a deity is said to descend and briefly appear, and below it lie a round pond with two promontories and a central island. Shrine tradition credits the garden to Muso Soseki, but the prefecture says this is unconfirmed, and some see it as an Edo-period work.

Prefectural scenic site, 1967
Tengu-iwa is the yogo stone
Three shrine buildings, prefectural designation, 1996

03 ／ Birthplace legend

By the late 18th century, Michikaze's birthwas already believed in this place.

The Legendary Birthplace of Ono no Michikaze, a prefectural historic site, is in Matsukawado. Tradition holds that Michikaze was born here to his father and a local woman. The city notes that a monument raised in 1815 shows his birth was already believed in this place by the late 18th century. The Tofu Memorial Museum opened in 1981.

Prefectural historic site, 1954
Monument raised in 1815
Memorial museum opened in 1981

Living here

Nagoya is 21 minutes by rapid train.

about 310,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Nagoya Station, the JR Chuo Line rapid service takes at least 21 minutes to Kasugai Station. This is counted from departure times at Nagoya and Kasugai in the JR Central station timetables revised in March 2026. The city gives at least 18 minutes by rapid train from Kachigawa Station to Nagoya Station. City Hall is about 20 minutes on foot from Kasugai Station.

People living here: 308,681people
Area: 92.78km²
Households: 131,000households
Rent (average for rentals): 56,057yen
Healthcare: 13 hospitals ／ 205 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —42 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.

Kasugai City in Japan35.248°N 136.972°E

to NagoyaJR Chuo Line21min

Travel times follow JR東海の駅時刻表PDF（2026年3月改正）：名古屋駅の下り（chuo_Nagoya_A_w_d・chuo_Nagoya_A_h_d）と春日井駅の下り（chuo_Kasugai_A_w_d・chuo_Kasugai_A_h_d）。平日・土休日とも名古屋発の快速（中津川行き）と春日井発の同じ列車を突き合わせた。春日井市公式『かすがいでつながる』（鉄道駅）の『JR勝川駅からJR名古屋駅までは、快速電車で最短18分』 (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kasugai City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

13.7km

Aichi Prefecture: 小牧市, 名古屋市, 瀬戸市, 豊山町, 犬山市
Gifu Prefecture: 多治見市

Kasugai City isthis kind of town.

01Old Chuo Line Tamano No.4 Tunnel, built of brick in 1900, has coping stones and other stonework decorating the top of its portal. With Tamano No.3 Tunnel and the Kasaishi culvert it is a nationally registered tangible cultural property; it is normally locked and opens only on limited days in spring and autumn
02The haniwa and Sue ware of Futagoyama Tumulus are known to have been fired at the Shimohara ancient kiln site about 8 km north, and the Utsutsu Shrine garden takes in three great rocks of the hill behind it
03By the late 18th century Ono no Michikaze's birth was believed in this place, and the Tofu Memorial Museum opened in 1981. The city-designated Shinogi Gassuku ema and the Jinryo dotaku bronze bell also survive in the city

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kasugai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗