Taketoyo Town

Two girders cross at right angles.

Taketoyominato Station turntable

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Wetland

On hills whose surroundings were dug for soil,a wetland holds seven kinds of insectivorous plants.

Itchoda Wetland lies in hills 30 to 40 m above sea level. The surrounding land was dug as a soil quarry for reclamation in the first half of the Showa 30s (1955-59), changing the terrain sharply; when farmland development came, 11,000 m² including the wetland was designated a protected area. The town writes that seven kinds of insectivorous plants grow there.

Prefectural natural monument, designated 1984
Prefectural nature conservation area, 1999
11,000 m² protected area (town)

02 ／ Village headman's house

The house of the Mitsui family, headmen for about 100 years,has five buildings designated by the town.

In Nagao Village, land under the direct control of the Owari domain's Narumi magistrate, the Mitsui family served as village headman, each head taking the name Denzaemon. The town writes that three generations, from the third to the fifth, held the post for about 100 years. The town says the 46,000 old documents are among the largest sets kept by a headman's family in Japan; the Historical and Folk Museum keeps them.

Main house and four other buildings town-designated, 1 April 2021
46,000 old documents (town)
Headmen for about 100 years, 3rd to 5th head

03 ／ Taketoyo Line

One reason Taketoyo was chosen as the landing port for materialswas that it had many kurokuwa-mono, earthwork workers.

The town lists the conditions for choosing Taketoyo: calm seas, reasonable water depth, a busy shipping trade, and many kurokuwa-mono, civil engineering workers. Work on the materials line linking Taketoyo and Atsuta finished in just under seven months, and it opened on 1 March 1886 (Meiji 19).

Construction under seven months (town)
Opened 1 March 1886
Taketoyo to Atsuta, 33.2 km

Living here

38 minutes by limited express from Meitetsu Nagoya.

about 40,000 people
Rural district town

Chita-Taketoyo Station on the Meitetsu Kowa Line is 38 minutes from Meitetsu Nagoya by limited express with no change of trains (in the timetable revised on 14 March 2026; the slower of the fastest daily services on weekdays and on weekends and holidays). The town gives about 35 minutes by limited express. For JR Taketoyo Station, the terminus, the town gives about 30 minutes on the Taketoyo Line from Obu.

People living here: 43,535people
Area: 26.37km²
Households: 18,122households
Rent (average for rentals): 46,222yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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.

Taketoyo Town in Japan34.851°N 136.915°E

to NagoyaMeitetsu limited express38min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道「路線別時刻表 2026.3.14からの時刻表」の常滑線・空港線・河和線・知多新線（下り＝名鉄名古屋→河和・内海、上り＝内海・河和→名鉄名古屋）の平日・土休日のPDF（4本）を、名鉄名古屋『発』→知多武豊『〃』（上りは知多武豊→名鉄名古屋『着』）の時刻で数えた（PDFの文字を機械で列ごとに読み、人の目での全数確認はしていない） (checked 2026-10-20). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Taketoyo Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.5km

常滑市, 美浜町, 半田市

Taketoyo Town isthis kind of town.

01The former Japanese National Railways Taketoyominato Station turntable was used to turn freight cars around. Two 7.3 m girders cross at their centres in a right-angle, two-line design, which the Agency for Cultural Affairs describes as one of few surviving examples nationwide. It became a nationally registered tangible cultural property in 2009
02Itchoda Wetland is an Aichi Prefecture designated natural monument where seven kinds of insectivorous plants grow. The town also has the prefectural tangible folk cultural property of the Horita Inari mathematical tablet and eleven town-designated festival floats
03The Mitsui House is a village headman's residence and a town-designated tangible cultural property. The Taketoyo Line opened between Taketoyo and Atsuta in 1886, and the town lists the presence of kurokuwa-mono as one reason Taketoyo was chosen as the landing port for materials

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Taketoyo Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗