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23427 / とびしまむら

Aichi Prefecture 海部郡

Tobishima Village

A six-sided brick store for land papers.

Rokkaku Brick Storehouse

Photo by KAMUI (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 / Drainage station

A German centrifugal pump ran on coal-fired steam,and was switched to an electric motor in 1942.

Otakara Jin, the tenth head of the Otakara family, imported a large German centrifugal pump and built a drainage station. Completed in early summer 1906 (Meiji 39), it was driven by a coal-fired steam engine until it was switched to an electric motor in 1942 (Showa 17).

  • Completed early summer 1906
  • 1942: switched to an electric motor
  • German large centrifugal pump

02 / Land reclamation

Under the lord's order, Tsugane Bunzaemontook on reclaiming Tobishima Shinden in 1797.

Bunzaemon Tsugane monument in Tobishima Village ac.jpg
Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tsugane Bunzaemon was born in Nagoya in 1727 (Kyoho 12) and served the Owari domain as magistrate of Atsuta and of ships. In 1797 (Kansei 9) he took on the reclamation of Tobishima Shinden on the lord's order, and the tourism association records that he completed it in 1801 (Kyowa 1).

  • Born 1727 (Kyoho 12)
  • 1797: the lord's order
  • 1801 (Kyowa 1): completed

03 / Sutra repository

A storehouse was built to hold prayersfor the fish, shellfish and insects lost to reclamation.

The Issaikyo-zo, popularly called the Okyodo, was built in 1810 (Bunka 7) by Kimura Chuemon, who pitied the many fish, shellfish and insects that died in the reclamation and built it to pray for them. The village notes the flowing line of its roof on a modest building.

  • Built 1810 (Bunka 7)
  • Popularly called the Okyodo
  • Kimura Chuemon

Living here

No station; 19 minutes by bus from Kintetsu-Kanie.

  • about 5,000 people
  • Rural district town

There is no railway station in the village. The village bus (Kanie Line) takes 19 minutes from Kintetsu-Kanie Station to the village office, and the fare from the station to the Kominkan Bunkan stop is 200 yen. It runs every day, with the holiday timetable on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; some trips do not stop at the village office.

People living here
4,575people
19952020

+4% since 2015

4,732 → 4,575

Area
22.43km²

22.43km² of it habitable

2024

Households
1,506households

3.0 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
—
Healthcare
0 hospitals / 5 clinics

10.9 per 10,000 people

2023

Almost entirely flat.Almost all of it is habitable land (100.0%)
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—2 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.

Tobishima Village in Japan35.079°N 136.791°E
TokyoTobishima Village
Tobishima Village Office
飛島村役場2017
  • to Kintetsu-KanieLocal bus19min

Travel times follow 村公式『飛島公共交通バス(蟹江線)のご案内』(https://www.vill.tobishima.aichi.jp/kurashi/seikatsu/1001748/1001749/1001754/1001756.html。更新 2026-08-03)の時刻表PDF(令和7年10月1日〜。kanie_panf_r71001_2.pdf。文字層をPDFから読み、平日ダイヤ・休日ダイヤの『近鉄蟹江駅前』発と『飛島村役場』着を突き合わせた)。毎日運行(運休日『なし』) (checked 2026-10-19). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Tobishima Village
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.0km

弥富市, 名古屋市, 蟹江町

Tobishima Village isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The Rokkaku Brick Storehouse is a two-story brick building with a tiled roof, said to have been built around 1908 (Meiji 41) and used mainly as a storehouse for land-related papers
  2. 02The Otakara drainage station was completed in early summer 1906, and its coal-fired steam pump was replaced by an electric motor in 1942; the tourism association records that Tsugane Bunzaemon of the Owari domain received the lord's order in 1797 and completed the Tobishima Shinden reclamation in 1801
  3. 03The Issaikyo-zo (Okyodo), built in 1810, is a building for praying for the fish, shellfish and insects lost to reclamation, and is listed on the village's cultural properties page

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.