Togo Town

Chrysanthemum crest carved on red doors.

Yufuku-ji Chokushi-mon gate

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Mekobore-matsu pine

The pine said to have fallen from a basketbound for Nagoya Castle and taken root.

In 1614 (Keicho 19), while Nagoya Castle was being built, pines were dug up from the hills of Morowa and presented to the castle, said to number several hundred. The Mekobore-matsu is said to be the one that fell from a carrying basket and took root; it died in 1980 (Showa 55), and a cross-section of its trunk is kept in the local history museum.

Pines presented in 1614 (Keicho 19)
Said to number several hundred
Died in 1980; trunk cross-section kept

02 ／ Kurozasa Kiln No. 7

A kiln estimated at around 800 ADsurvives complete from firebox to flue.

This anagama kiln lies in the central area of the Sanage kiln group on the south-western slope of Mt. Sanage. It was found in 1974 (Showa 49) in an excavation during construction of the Togo Clean Center. The kiln body is 9.6 m long, part of the ceiling survives near the middle, and long-necked bottles and inkstones have been excavated.

Aichi Prefecture historic site (designated 1975)
Kiln body 9.6 m long
Estimated at around 800 AD

03 ／ Former clubhouse

Part of a golf course clubhouse becamea village office, then a local history museum.

Built in 1929 (Showa 4) as the clubhouse of the Nagoya Golf Club Wago Course, part of it was donated to Togo Village in 1959 (Showa 34) when the clubhouse was rebuilt. It was used as the village office's administrative room and the mayor's reception room, became the local history museum in 1977 (Showa 52), and the museum building was moved onto the grounds of East Plaza Ikomai-kan in 2004 (Heisei 16).

Built in 1929 (Showa 4)
Part donated to the village in 1959
Moved to the East Plaza Ikomai-kan grounds in 2004

Living here

A town with no station: by Meitetsu bus from Akaike.

about 40,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town's access guide (updated 7 October 2022) says that from the Nagoya side you take the Nagoya Subway Tsurumai Line to Akaike Station, board a Meitetsu Bus bound for Toyota City, and get off at the Wago bus stop. From the Toyota side, take a Meitetsu Bus bound for Chiryu from Nisshin Station on the Meitetsu Toyota Line to Wago, or the town's Junkai-kun circular bus from the north plaza of Nisshin Station to Togo Town Office.

People living here: 43,903people
Area: 18.03km²
Households: 16,823households
Rent (average for rentals): 62,927yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 32 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 5 municipalities.

Togo Town in Japan35.097°N 137.053°E

Territory of Togo Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.4km

みよし市, 日進市, 豊明市, 名古屋市, 刈谷市

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

Togo Town isthis kind of town.

01The Yufuku-ji Chokushi-mon is a single-bay, one-door middle gate built to receive an imperial messenger when, in 1528, Emperor Go-Nara granted the temple the status of an imperial prayer temple; red-lacquered doors carry a sixteen-petal chrysanthemum crest. Designated as a building by Aichi Prefecture in 1990, the prefecture describes it as a precious relic, with few parallels among local areas and in good condition
02The name Togo is said to come from "the eastern village": when Morowa and Haruki villages merged in 1906 (Meiji 39), the new village was named for its place at the eastern end of Aichi District and of Owari. For the building of Nagoya Castle in 1614 (Keicho 19), pines from the hills of Morowa are said to have been presented, and in 1962 (Showa 37) the Morowa ward again donated over 170 pines to the castle
03Kurozasa Kiln No. 7 is an anagama kiln in the central area of the Sanage kiln group and an Aichi Prefecture historic site (designated 1975). The former clubhouse was moved onto the grounds of East Plaza Ikomai-kan in 2004 (Heisei 16) after serving as a village office and a local history museum. Yufuku-ji Ichirizuka is also a prefectural historic site (designated 1968)

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Togo Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗