Ogaki City

The girders were imported from England.

Former Ibigawa Bridge

Photo by Monami (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Nishi Takagi Jinya site

A hatamoto's jinya site, whose familywas allowed a status equal to a daimyo's.

This is the site of the jinya of the Nishi Takagi family, hatamoto holding 2,300 koku, in Kamiishizu, and a National Historic Site. As Kotai-yoriai Mino-shu, the Takagi were allowed a status equal to a daimyo's, and also held the river-patrol duty overseeing flood control on the Kiso Three Rivers. Stone walls line the terrace cliff on the road side, and the old documents handed down by the three Takagi families number some 100,000 or more.

National Historic Site, October 6, 2014
Nishi family: 2,300 koku
Three families: 100,000+ documents

02 ／ Hirui Otsuka Kofun

Atop the rear mound,three forms of burial coexist.

A three-tiered keyhole-shaped tomb built about 1,600 years ago, which the city describes as the largest in Gifu Prefecture. The mound is about 150 m long. The top of the rear mound holds a pit-style stone chamber, a clay enclosure and a direct-burial wooden coffin, and iron swords and blades were found outside the west coffin. Part of the rear mound has been restored with fukiishi stones and haniwa.

National Historic Site, September 6, 2000
Mound about 150 m long
3 burial forms

03 ／ Tokiyama hamlet

A valley hamlet known for charcoal,its houses rise in tiers.

Tokiyama, at the head of the Makita River on the border with Shiga Prefecture, is City Landscape Heritage No. 83. With little farmland, it has made charcoal since the Edo period, and Tokiyama charcoal was shipped even to Kyoto and Nagoya. Production resumed in September 2022, and the new kiln yields about 330 kg of charcoal per firing.

City Landscape Heritage No. 83
Designated January 15, 2021
About 330 kg per firing

Living here

29 minutes to Nagoya, 108 to Osaka.

about 160,000 people
30 min to a city centre

By the JR Central timetable (March 2026 revision), the limited express Shirasagi takes at fastest 29 minutes from Nagoya Station to Ogaki Station. The limited express Hida No. 25 runs from Osaka Station without a change, taking 108 minutes on weekdays. Ogaki Station serves the JR Tokaido Line, the Tarumi Railway and the Yoro Railway, and City Hall is about 1 km southwest of it. In 2006 the city absorbed the towns of Kamiishizu and Sunomata.

People living here: 158,286people
Area: 206.57km²
Households: 62,277households
Rent (average for rentals): 49,013yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 133 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-27 に編入合併（上石津町・墨俣町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —31 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.

Ogaki City in Japan35.360°N 136.613°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Shirasagi29min
to OsakaLtd. exp. Hida108min

Travel times follow JR東海『各駅の時刻表』（railway.jr-central.co.jp/time-schedule/）の駅時刻表PDF（2026年3月改正〔URLの 202603〕・PDFの作成日 2026-02-09）：名古屋駅の東海道線[平日／土曜・休日][岐阜・大垣方面]（tokaido_Nagoya_A_w_d.pdf・tokaido_Nagoya_A_h_d.pdf）と、大垣駅の東海道線[平日／土曜・休日][米原・美濃赤坂方面]（tokaido_Ogaki_A_w_d.pdf・_h_d）・[岐阜・名古屋方面]（tokaido_Ogaki_A_w_u.pdf・_h_u）。JR東海の駅時刻表は発車時刻だけなので、名古屋『発』→大垣『発』を数えた（停車時間を含む）。大阪は JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表 line-timetable/2235（姫路〜大阪〜米原）の大阪『発』と、大垣駅の時刻表の大垣『発』を数えた。JR西日本のページの日付は 2026-10-15（木）・10-17（土）・10-18（日）・10-19（月）・11-03（祝）・12-31（木）の6日分を取った (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 13 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Ogaki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.5km

Gifu Prefecture: 養老町, 垂井町, 関ケ原町, 安八町, 神戸町, 池田町, 瑞穂市, 輪之内町, 岐阜市, 羽島市
Mie Prefecture: いなべ市
Shiga Prefecture: 多賀町, 米原市

Ogaki City isthis kind of town.

01The Former Ibigawa Bridge, completed in December 1886 (Meiji 19) for the Tokaido Line, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. Its truss girders are of wrought iron made by the Patent Shaft & Axletree Company of England, its piers are brick caissons, and it now serves as a path for bicycles and pedestrians
02The Nishi Takagi Jinya site and the Hirui Otsuka Kofun are National Historic Sites. The Nishi Takagi, hatamoto, were allowed a status equal to a daimyo's as Kotai-yoriai Mino-shu, and the top of the Hirui Otsuka Kofun's rear mound holds three forms of burial. Tokiyama in Kamiishizu is a City Landscape Heritage known since the Edo period for charcoal
03The Ogaki Festival yama float event is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, in which the three floats given by the domain lord and the floats of the ten old castle-town neighborhoods are pulled out. The Funamachi river port on the Suimon River is a National Place of Scenic Beauty as part of the Scenic Sites of the Narrow Road to the Deep North

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ogaki City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗