Owariasahi City

Dyer and brewer's house, roadside wall.

Miyake House, Seto Road

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Temple gate

Thick posts and oddly placed mortisessuggest the gate reuses timber.

It is a one-bay, single-door yakui-mon gate with a tiled gabled roof. Its front posts and top beam are thicker than the gate's scale would call for and the mortises sit in odd places, so reused timber is inferred. Temple tradition holds that it received one of Kiyosu Castle's gates when the temple was revived in 1631.

City Designated Cultural Property No. 7 (1986)
Yakui-mon gate, tiled roof
Temple revived in 1631

02 ／ Signpost

At a six-way junction, two stone Buddhasstand facing each other.

The irregular six-way junction beside the Minamiharayama community hall was known locally as Oiwake. The horse-headed Kannon on the west faces east and the eleven-headed Kannon on the east faces west, both set up in 1847. The eleven-headed Kannon is inscribed with directions, serving as a signpost.

Set up in 1847
Horse-headed and eleven-headed Kannon
The six-way "Oiwake" junction

03 ／ Native grove

A pond where mamenashi pears grow wildalso hosts a nationally rare aenashi pear.

Nagaike pond in Shiroyama-cho is a stand of wild mamenashi pear trees, with 26 trees when designated. The aenashi is a natural hybrid of the mamenashi and the pear, and the city says only a few places in Japan have been confirmed. Of two at designation, one died by spring 2008, and the city's page (updated March 2023) gives the remaining one a trunk girth of 94 cm.

City Designated Cultural Property No. 11 (2003)
26 mamenashi at designation
One aenashi (city page)

Living here

Sakaemachi in Nagoya is 20 minutes by Meitetsu express.

about 80,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The first station the city names is Owari Asahi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line, which runs to Sakaemachi Station, not Meitetsu Nagoya Station. In the timetable revised on 14 March 2026, the fastest express from Sakaemachi to Owari Asahi takes 20 minutes on weekdays and weekends alike (19 minutes the other way). The city's website says the town grew on the ease of commuting and shopping in the Sakae area.

People living here: 83,144people
Area: 21.03km²
Households: 33,977households
Rent (average for rentals): 57,026yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 74 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Owariasahi City in Japan35.217°N 137.035°E

to NagoyaMeitetsu express20min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道『路線別時刻表瀬戸線』のPDF（2026年03月14日改正。平日の下り『20260314_ST_W1.pdf』・上り『20260314_ST_W2.pdf』、土・休日の下り『20260314_ST_H1.pdf』・上り『20260314_ST_H2.pdf』。https://www.meitetsu.co.jp/train/timetable/index.html の『瀬戸線』の4本）。市公式『アクセスマップ』（2023-03-01更新） (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Owariasahi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.1km

名古屋市, 瀬戸市, 長久手市

Owariasahi City isthis kind of town.

01Miyake House was a merchant house of a dyer and sake brewer in a rural market town on the Seto Road. Its main house, storehouse, and gate and wall are three nationally registered tangible cultural properties, and indigo vats are buried in the main house's earthen floor
02The city's Uma no To, an offering of horses, is a designated intangible folk cultural property in which horses decked with ornaments are offered to shrines and temples. Preservation groups in Imba, Arai, Inaba and Sango carry it on, and in October 2025, for the first time in ten years, Keigo, a procession of horses, stick-fighting and matchlocks, was held at the city festival
03Yoshigaike Wetland is a spring-fed wetland special to the Tokai region where Shiratamahoshikusa and Mikawashiogama grow, and a city natural monument. Closed to entry normally, it opens to the public six times a year

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Owariasahi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗