Tahara City

Stones outline Todaiji's tile kilns.

Irago Todaiji tile kiln site

Photo by Bariston (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Yoshigo Shell Mound

The shell layers spread across a gentle slopefacing Atsumi Bay.

This shell mound, centred on the late and final Jomon period, was designated a National Historic Site in 1951. The national commentary records shell layers over a wide area, where Jomon pottery fragments, stone tools and bone and antler tools have been found.

National Historic Site, 1951
Centred on the late and final Jomon
Shell layers over a wide area

02 ／ O-Arako Old Kiln Site

A large jar bore the name of the governor of Mikawa,incised with a spatula.

This kiln site in the centre of the Atsumi Peninsula consists of five climbing kilns. A large jar excavated there was inscribed with a spatula with the name of Fujiwara no Akinaga, who was governor of Mikawa in the mid-12th century. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1971.

Five climbing kilns
Governor of Mikawa, mid-12th century
National Historic Site, 1971

03 ／ Ikenohara Seclusion Site

The residence where Watanabe Kazan, ordered into confinement,spent his last years.

池ノ原公園崋山幽居跡.JPG — Photo by Own work (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Tahara City Museum describes the site as the residence where Watanabe Kazan, ordered into confinement on a false charge in its words, spent his last years. It was designated a city historic site in 1992. The 50 items of Kazan-related materials are an Important Cultural Property held by the museum.

City Historic Site, 1992
50 items of materials
Important Cultural Property

Living here

32 minutes from Shin-Toyohashi by the Atsumi Line.

about 60,000 people

Mikawa Tahara Station in the city is 32 minutes at the fastest from Shin-Toyohashi Station on the Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line (timetable revised on 6 September 2025; services that run every day). The city names Mikawa Tahara Station as the nearest train station, 35 minutes from Shin-Toyohashi and then about 10 minutes on foot. Shin-Toyohashi is a separate station from JR Toyohashi.

People living here: 59,360people
Area: 191.11km²
Households: 21,300households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,695yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 37 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —22 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.

Tahara City in Japan34.669°N 137.264°E

Territory of Tahara City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.7km

豊橋市

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

Tahara City isthis kind of town.

01The Irago Todaiji tile kiln site is a Kamakura-period kiln site beside Hatsudachi Pond, designated a National Historic Site in 1967 as one of the kilns that supplied tiles for the rebuilding of Todaiji; the tourism association says small stones mark the outlines of its three tunnel kilns
02The Tahara City Museum's list includes the nationally designated Miyayama primeval forest and Momiji Shidekobushi habitat, the prefecturally designated Hikariiwa rock and the city-designated seclusion site of Watanabe Kazan
03On the peninsula, chrysanthemums are grown under lights: the lights are switched on before the flower buds form to lengthen the day artificially and delay flowering (Tahara Tourism Association). The festival floats of the Tahara Festival, carrying mechanical dolls, are designated Tangible Folk Cultural Properties of the city

See the town as it is now.

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

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