Tokai City

Cobbles slant up out of a gatepost.

Kuno House (Aizankyo) gatepost

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Embankment

An embankment of stones that do not touch,with wide joints between them.

This nationally registered embankment lies northwest of Shurakuen Park, beside the Meitetsu Tokoname Line. It encloses land reclaimed in the early Taisho era by a Nagoya businessman, and slaked lime and decomposed granite are packed as a tamped mortar between the split stones. It is a surviving example of the artificial-stone method devised in the Meiji era, and runs 76 m.

76 m long
Nationally registered tangible cultural property
Tamped mortar between split stones

02 ／ Festival float

On the Entsu district's float, the target fallsforward and a small karako figure steps out.

The Owari Yokosuka Festival is held on the fourth Sunday of September and the day before, and at Atago Shrine's festival the floats are spun at a crossroads in a move called donten. The Entsu district's float dates from around the Kansei era (1789-1801). Its mechanism in which an arrow hits a target was restored in 2000, and could be seen again for the first time in about 100 years.

Built around the Kansei era (1789-1801)
Mechanism restored in 2000
Held on the fourth Sunday of September and the day before

03 ／ Person

The pen name Heishu is another readingof his birth village, Hirashima.

Hosoi Heishu, an Edo-period Confucian scholar, was born in 1728 into a farming family in Hirashima Village, now Arao-cho. His pen name Heishu reworks the name of his birth village, and another, Nyorai Sanjin, comes from a hill south of Kannon-ji Temple where he played as a child. He became the first tokugaku, head, of the Owari domain school.

Born in 1728
Pen name reworks his birth village's name
First head of the Owari domain school

Living here

Nagoya is 16 minutes by Meitetsu limited express.

about 110,000 people
30 min to a city centre

From Meitetsu Nagoya Station, the Meitetsu limited express reaches Otagawa Station in 16 minutes. The city gives about 15 minutes on foot from Otagawa Station to the city hall, or about 6 minutes on the Ranran Bus, the loop bus.

People living here: 113,787people
Area: 43.43km²
Households: 49,077households
Rent (average for rentals): 53,832yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 76 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —18 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.

Tokai City in Japan35.023°N 136.902°E

to NagoyaMeitetsu limited express16min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道『路線別時刻表』PDF（2026.3.14からの時刻表。ページに「2026年03月14日改正」）の常滑線・空港線・河和線・知多新線下り（名鉄名古屋→中部国際空港・河和・内海）の平日（20260314_TA_W1.pdf）と土・休日（20260314_TA_H1.pdf）。名鉄名古屋『発』→太田川『着』を列車ごとに数えた (checked 2026-10-19). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Tokai City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.0km

大府市, 知多市, 名古屋市, 東浦町

Tokai City isthis kind of town.

01The gatepost of Kuno House (Aizankyo) is reinforced concrete faced with stacked flat cobbles; its owner is said to have called it the "gate of philosophy," and the main house, designed by Nishimura Isaku, is nationally registered along with it
02Nine floats of the Ota and Owari Yokosuka festivals are city-designated tangible folk cultural properties, and the city records that Goten Manzai draws on two lineages, Owari manzai and Mikawa manzai
03At the Hatama site, 4,196 old coins were found in a Tokoname ware jar, the stone chamber of the Iwayaguchi tumulus is 8.4 m long, and the Shurakuen Great Buddha is a reinforced-concrete statue 18.79 m high, consecrated in 1927

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tokai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗