Minamichita Town

A forest of ubame oak at the cape's tip.

Hazu Shrine's woodland

Photo by Bariston (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Former Uchida Residence

Built in 1869, a shipowner's house is largeamong surviving seafaring-merchant homes.

The second Uchida Shichi, a leading owner of Utsumi ships, built this house in the 2nd year of Meiji (1869). The town describes it as large even among the surviving homes of shipping merchants on the Pacific side. A square standing water basin in the front garden turns, letting the pattern change with the season.

Meiji 2 (1869)
Important Cultural Property, 2017
A basin that turns

02 ／ Mazukari Shell Mound

During Utsumi Station's construction, 10-odd m down,pottery about 8,400 years old came out.

Found more than 10 m underground while Meitetsu's Chita New Line Utsumi Station was being built, this is an Early Jomon shell mound. Radiocarbon dating placed the oval-impressed pottery unearthed there at about 8,400 years ago, in the first half of the Early Jomon period. The town's cultural heritage site describes it as said to be the oldest in Aichi Prefecture.

10-odd m underground
Oval-impressed pottery, about 8,400 years old
Early Jomon period

03 ／ Onbe Sea Bream

On Shinojima, a festival carries salted sea breamby sea to the Kamiyashiro port in Ise.

Every year on October 12, a fleet of fishing boats carries salted onbe sea bream by sea from Shinojima to Kamiyashiro port in Ise, timed to the Kannamesai rites of Ise Jingu. The fleet flies the Taichi goyo flag given by Ise Jingu. The festival is said to have a history of more than 1,000 years.

Every October 12
Taichi goyo flag
Said to have more than 1,000 years of history

Living here

Utsumi Station ends the Chita New Line; midday trains change at Fuki.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Utsumi Station, the terminus of Meitetsu's Chita New Line, is the only railway station in the town. In the timetable revised on March 14, 2026, all midday trains from Utsumi are locals for Fuki, and only a few through trains to Meitetsu-Nagoya run, in the morning inbound and the evening outbound. Town Hall is in Toyohama.

People living here: 16,617people
Area: 38.23km²
Households: 6,533households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,968yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 11 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Shape

Borders 1 municipalities.

Minamichita Town in Japan34.715°N 136.930°E

Territory of Minamichita Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.2km

美浜町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Minamichita Town isthis kind of town.

01The Hazu Shrine woodland lies at the southern tip of Morozaki, a grove mainly of ubame oak with byakushin and other evergreens mixed in, and was designated a National Natural Monument in 1934
02In Utsumi, the house of the Uchida Shichi family, owners of Utsumi ships, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property (2017), and the town keeps a cedar sail yard about 14 m long thought to have been used on a ship of the family. The Mazukari Shell Mound, found during construction of Utsumi Station, dates to the Early Jomon period
03The Kagura-bune of western Utsumi, a twin-hulled boat with lanterns hung on its mast, was designated a town Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 2019. On Shinojima, onbe sea bream is carried to Ise every October 12

See the town as it is now.

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

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