Kaizu City

A valley has two dry-laid boulder dams.

Hanedani check dams

Photo by Alpsdake (CC0)

01 ／ Niwata Shell Mound

The cross-section of the hill called Kakizukashows a pure shell layer nearly 1 m thick.

Niwata Shell Mound, a Prefectural Historic Site, lies on an island-like hill about 110 m east to west and 130 m north to south, with shells scattered over its southwestern part. The shells are mainly Pacific oysters, mixed with rapa whelks, hard clams and Manila clams. The prefecture explains that the settlement formed in the early Jomon period and the shell layer in the middle Jomon period.

Prefectural Historic Site (designated 9 July 1957)
Pure shell layer nearly 1 m thick
Shell layer formed in the middle Jomon period

02 ／ Hayakawa House

A house on ground raised with stone walls,its storehouses built atop higher walls.

A wealthy farmer's residence in the polder district, and a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. The interior of the main house, which has a stately entrance platform, is in the sukiya style, with a different design in each room. The ground is raised with stone walls, and the rice storehouse and the Nishi-no-kura storehouse stand on still higher stone walls.

Important Cultural Property (designated 30 September 2019)
Ground raised with stone walls
Storehouses on higher stone walls

03 ／ Shuntai's Imao kiln site

A potter from Owari was invited by the lord of Imaoand built a kiln on the left bank of the Ibi River.

Shuntai was the art name of a potter of the Kato family, born in 1800 in Akazu in Owari Province. In 1851 he was invited by the lord of Imao Castle and built a kiln at Imao. Two kilns stood on the left bank of the Ibi River, firing tea bowls and water jars, and the prefecture calls the site a valuable ruin of Edo-period lord's private kiln ware.

Prefectural Historic Site (designated 21 December 1976)
Kiln built at Imao in 1851
Two kilns

Living here

From Ishizu Station, about 20 minutes by city bus to City Hall.

about 30,000 people

The city says City Hall is about 20 minutes by city community bus from Ishizu and Komano stations on the Yoro Railway Yoro Line. The city's community bus has five routes, and its public transport guide, valid from 1 April 2026, also carries timetables for the on-demand service, the Yoro Railway and the Meihan Kintetsu Bus Kaizu Line.

People living here: 32,735people
Area: 112.03km²
Households: 11,600households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,451yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —12 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 7 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Kaizu City in Japan35.221°N 136.637°E

Territory of Kaizu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.6km

Gifu Prefecture: 養老町, 輪之内町, 羽島市
Mie Prefecture: 桑名市, いなべ市
Aichi Prefecture: 愛西市, 稲沢市

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

Kaizu City isthis kind of town.

01The Hanedani check dams are two dams of piled boulders in the dry-stone style the prefecture calls kyoseki karaishizumi, built, it explains, under the guidance of the Dutch civil engineer Johannis de Rijke, and both the first dam and the Hanedani check dam are nationally registered tangible cultural properties
02Niwata Shell Mound is a Jomon shell mound and a Prefectural Historic Site, Hayakawa House is a wealthy farmer's residence in the polder district and a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, and the Shuntai Imao kiln site, where a potter from Owari built a kiln at Imao, is a Prefectural Historic Site
03Along the dividing embankment between the Ibi and Nagara rivers runs Senbon-matsubara, a pine grove said to have been planted by Satsuma samurai, who set out a thousand seedlings just after the Horeki river-control works were finished, and its closing embankment was designated a historic site in 1940

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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