Shinshiro City

Lattice posts hold the deck on the arch.

Former Tsuge Bridge, Norimoto

Photo by 円周率３パーセント (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Dike

A 122 m dike in the Ure River bedrises like a horse's mane.

Umanoseiwa is a dike in the bed of the Ure River in Toyooka, Shinshiro, and a national natural monument. The city explains that after volcanic activity about 15 million years ago, lava flowed into cracks, and the dike stood up above its surroundings. It is 122 m long, 2.9 to 6.3 m wide and about 7 m high, and is described as the most typical example of this kind of dike.

122 m long
About 7 m high
National natural monument, 1934

02 ／ Divination

A jar of red bean rice is buried,then dug up a year later to read the harvest.

Otameshi in Obata, a divination rite of the mountain deity, is a municipal intangible folk cultural property. In the small hours of the first day of the Monkey in the 11th lunar month, the representatives of the shrine's parishioners go into the hills and dig up the jar of red bean rice buried the year before. How well the rice and beans keep their shape tells the harvest, and the water level tells floods or drought. Afterwards, fresh red bean rice has been put in and the jar returned to the earth.

First Monkey day, 11th lunar month
Red bean rice jar in the ground
Municipal designation, 1958

03 ／ Road

A wealthy Nagashino merchant opened a roadfrom Nagashino to Kawai at his own cost.

The Mochizuki Road runs about 13.7 km from Nagashino to Kawai. It was opened by a wealthy Nagashino merchant of the Mochizuki family (1822-1893), who paid out of his own pocket for the hard work of cutting a tunnel through the rock face at Makihara, where there had been no road. Work began in 1877 and was completed in 1886. The city notes that a monument commemorating the opening stands in Nagashino.

About 13.7 km
1877 to 1886
Tunnel at Makihara

Living here

232 minutes by highway bus from Shinjuku.

about 40,000 people

A daytime highway bus run by JR Bus stops at Michi-no-Eki Mokkuru Shinshiro, 232 minutes from Busta Shinjuku and 219 minutes from Osaka Station (the fastest daily service; the timetable is marked as revised on 1 April 2025). By rail, the city gives about 30 minutes on the JR Iida Line from Toyohashi Station to Shinshiro Station.

People living here: 44,355people
Area: 499.23km²
Households: 16,633households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,567yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 33 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に新設合併（鳳来町・作手村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

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.

Shinshiro City in Japan34.899°N 137.498°E

to ShinjukuHighway bus232min
to OsakaHighway bus219min

Travel times follow ジェイアールバス関東『デジタル時刻表』東京・新宿～京都・大阪昼行便（http://time.jrbuskanto.co.jp/bk08010.html。ページの表記は『2025年4月1日改正』。同じページの運転日カレンダーは2026年10月・11月の下り・上りとも全日にリンクがあり、運転日注記の付く日は無い）。下り（京都・大阪方面）1〜10号の『新城（道の駅もっくる新城）』の着時刻と、上り（新宿・東京方面）の発時刻から数えた。 (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Shinshiro City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

27.4km

Aichi Prefecture: 設楽町, 豊田市, 岡崎市, 東栄町, 豊川市, 豊橋市
Shizuoka Prefecture: 浜松市

Shinshiro City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Tsuge Bridge in Norimoto is a reinforced-concrete open-spandrel arch bridge of 1918 (Taisho 7); the posts between the arch and the road surface are framed in a lattice, and it is a nationally registered tangible cultural property
02Umanoseiwa, a dike in the Ure River bed, is a national natural monument, and Obata's Otameshi is a municipal intangible folk cultural property; both appear in the city's list of cultural properties
03Nagashino, where a wealthy merchant opened the Mochizuki Road at his own cost in the Meiji era, also has the Nagashino Castle ruins, a national historic site

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shinshiro City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗