Anpachi Town

Legend: a princess prayed here 7 days.

Musubu Shrine, Terute's prayer

Photo by 先従隗始 (CC0)

01 ／ Musubu polder

Musubu, one of seven polder communities,built village storehouses under written rules.

Seven wajū, polder communities ringed by dikes, were built in the Anpachi area: Maki, Moribe, Musubu, Nakamura, Daimyojin, Nakazu and Kita-Imagafuchi. In December 1852 (Kaei 5), Musubu Wajū built a storehouse in each village under its written rules, stocked with stakes, straw bales, rope, torches and mallets. In high water, everyone aged 15 to 60 was required to rush to the embankment.

Seven polder communities
December 1852: village storehouses
Everyone aged 15 to 60 to the embankment

02 ／ Minomushi Sanjin

One hall for each province, sixty-six in all:the dream of a painter born in Anpachi.

Minomushi Sanjin (1836–1900), whose real name was Toki Gengo, was a painter who travelled the country with a pack on his back and also collected pottery, stone tools and clay figurines. He dreamed of a display facility in his hometown with one hall for each of the sixty-six provinces. The town has a town-designated historic site that marks his birthplace.

1836–1900
Sixty-six halls
Town-designated historic site

03 ／ Nagibayashi Shrine

The name Omori is said to have comefrom the name of this shrine.

名木林神社.jpg — Photo by Amaterasu B (CC BY 3.0)

The Gifu Prefecture Shrine Association records Nagibayashi Shrine, a town-designated historic site, as an old shrine listed in the Mino Province register of deities as "Nagibayashi Myojin, Senior Fifth Rank"; it moved to its present site in 1934. One theory reads "na" as "great" and joins the characters for tree and grove to make "mori" (forest), giving the name Omori.

Listed in the Mino Province register of deities
Moved to present site, 1934
Town-designated historic site

Living here

No station; 6 minutes by bus from Gifu-Hashima Station.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The Meihan Kintetsu Bus Hashima Line links Gifu-Hashima Station and Ogaki Station and stops at Anpachi Town Office. The fastest daily bus in the timetable takes 6 minutes from Gifu-Hashima Station and 19 minutes from Ogaki Station. From 1 October 2025, the town's Ambee Bus has been a reservation-based shared bus.

People living here: 14,355people
Area: 18.16km²
Households: 5,013households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 11 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Anpachi Town in Japan35.335°N 136.665°E

to Gifu-HashimaLocal bus6min
to OgakiLocal bus19min

Travel times follow 名阪近鉄バス（事業者公式 https://www.mkb.co.jp/ の路線名一覧）の羽島線の時刻表PDF。平日（hashima1_2.pdf『復路』・hashima1_1.pdf『往路』）と土・日祝（hashima2_2.pdf・hashima2_1.pdf）。どちらも PDF の頭に『2023年4月1日改正』 (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Anpachi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.4km

大垣市, 羽島市, 瑞穂市, 輪之内町

Anpachi Town isthis kind of town.

01Musubu Shrine, a town-designated historic site in Nishi-Musubu, is where the town tells the Princess Terute legend: around the 30th year of Oei (1424), she is said to have prayed for seven days to meet Oguri Hangan again
02Anpachi lies between the Nagara and Ibi rivers, where seven polder communities were built. Minomushi Sanjin (1836–1900) was from Anpachi, and the town's History and Folklore Museum has a Minomushi Sanjin garden
03Nagibayashi Shrine is an old shrine listed in the Mino Province register of deities and moved to its present site in 1934. One theory holds that the name Omori came from the name of this shrine

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

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