Kakamigahara City

Actors use a tunnel under the hanamichi.

Murakuniza, Kagami no Butai

Photo by 杉山宣嗣 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tengudani site

A tomb from the end of the Kofun periodand Nara and Heian kilns are preserved and developed at the same site.

Sue, the district where the site lies, was a ceramics-producing area from the Kofun period to the Kamakura period. At the Tengudani site, a Nara-period sue ware kiln and a Heian-period ash-glazed ware kiln are preserved on the spot, and a horizontal-entry stone-chamber tomb from the end of the Kofun period has also been developed. It was designated a City Historic Site in 1991.

City Historic Site, May 24, 1991
Nara-period sue ware kiln
Heian-period ash-glazed ware kiln

02 ／ Owari boundary stone

Where Owari and shogunate land interlocked,Owari set up a stone: "From here east, Owari territory."

Along the Nakasendo, the Owari Tokugawa's village of Unuma and a village held directly by the shogunate formed a tangled boundary, so the Owari domain set up boundary stones beside the Nakasendo. Two stones are carved "From here east, Owari territory" and "From here west, Owari territory." Today they stand near the Unuma Nakasendo traffic signal on the Route 21 Unuma Bypass.

Carved "From here east, Owari territory"
Two stones, for the east and west sides
Once stood about 800 m west of today's spot

03 ／ Hyakujuro cherry trees

Ichikawa Hyakujuro, a kabuki actor from the area,gave the cherry trees to mark a channel's completion.

The cherry trees lining the Shin-Sakaigawa began with a gift from Ichikawa Hyakujuro, a kabuki actor from the area, to commemorate the completion of the Sakaigawa diversion channel, and are called Hyakujuro-zakura. The city dates the gift to the early Showa era and says the trees were replanted to mark the city's founding. They were chosen as one of Japan's 100 cherry blossom sites in 1990.

Gift of Ichikawa Hyakujuro
Marks the channel's completion
1990: chosen as a top-100 cherry site

Living here

Born from four towns, joined by Kawashima in 2004.

about 140,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The city was formed in 1963 by the merger of the towns of Naka, Inaba, Unuma and Sohara, and merged with the town of Kawashima, in Hashima District, in 2004. Its area is 87.81 km², with the Kakamigahara Plateau, at 30 to 60 m above sea level, spreading across it, and the Kiso River flowing east to west along the prefectural border to the south. The gateway is Kakamigahara-Shiyakusho-mae Station on the Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line.

People living here: 144,521people
Area: 87.81km²
Households: 57,129households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,058yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 114 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-11-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —16 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.

Kakamigahara City in Japan35.399°N 136.848°E

to NagoyaMeitetsu rapid limited express30min

Travel times follow 名古屋鉄道『路線別時刻表』（2026.3.14からの時刻表）の PDF『犬山線・各務原線』下り（神宮前→岩倉→犬山→名鉄岐阜）平日 20260314_IY_W1.pdf・土・休日 20260314_IY_H1.pdf と、上り（名鉄岐阜→犬山→岩倉→神宮前）平日 IY_W2.pdf・土・休日 IY_H2.pdf。pdftotext -bbox で各列車の『名鉄名古屋発』『新鵜沼着』（上りは『新鵜沼発』『名鉄名古屋着』）の時刻を座標で読み、列車ごとの差を数えた。『毎日運転』は、平日表と土・休日表の両方に同じ種別・同じ発着時刻の便があるものとした (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kakamigahara City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

10.1km

Gifu Prefecture: 岐阜市, 関市, 笠松町, 坂祝町, 岐南町
Aichi Prefecture: 犬山市, 江南市, 一宮市, 扶桑町

Kakamigahara City isthis kind of town.

01Murakuniza is a rural stage in the grounds of Murakuni Shrine, a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property known as Kagami no Butai; actors go from the area beneath the stage through an underfloor passage below the hanamichi into the small room at its end
02The Tengudani site is a City Historic Site that preserves sue ware kilns and an ash-glazed ware kiln on the spot and has developed a horizontal-entry stone-chamber tomb; the Owari boundary stones at Unuma-juku were set up by the Owari domain where its land and shogunate land interlocked
03The Hyakujuro cherry trees along the Shin-Sakaigawa began with a gift from Ichikawa Hyakujuro to mark the completion of the Sakaigawa diversion channel; in 2025 a Nara-period bronze weight called a ken was excavated at the Managoshi site, which the city considers to be a reference standard called a tameshi

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kakamigahara City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗